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Project Intersect |
The focus is to enhance students’ interest, understanding,enthusiasm, and performance in standards-based art education,language arts, mathematics, and science. By combining culturally relevant art components Project Intersect participants are developing new and effective interventions for arts education that integrate a culturally responsive model with standard-based education.
This approach supports a learning environment where children (American Indian and non-Indian) master basic skills while making important cultural connections.
Project Intersect involves students in Independent School District 94-Cloquet, Minnesota and neighboring Fond du Lac Ojibwe School on the Fond du Lac Reservation Additional collaborators are the University of Minnesota’s Institute on Community Integration (ICI) and Department of Curriculum and Instruction (C&I) Art Education Program, and local American Indian artists.
The overall purpose of the project is to:
(a) partner with local American Indian artists to infuse culturally responsive American Indian visual and performing arts into K-8 arts education;
(b) integrate American Indian arts activities into language arts, math, and science education;
(c) ensure that this AmericanIndian arts-based curriculum is aligned with state and national benchmarks and content standards in the visual and performing arts,language arts, math, and science;
(d)research the effectiveness of the culturally integrated American Indian curricular model in improving student academic performance in language arts,math, and science; and
(e) disseminate program results and outcomes for national and statewide replication.
Note: Be sure to go to our American Indian Education web pages on our district site as well. These pages are maintained by our Indian Education Director ~ Melanie Strom ~ and provide great resources and information from her programs and the Fond du Lac Reservation.
