Implementation Approach
The Creative Advantage Regional Approach
Seattle Public Schools’ K-12 pathways are defined by a neighborhood’s elementary, middle, and high school. In this work, we bring together principals, teachers, and staff to review arts equity data, and develop long-term arts visions that articulate each school’s unique goals for creating greater access through arts instruction, integration, partnerships, and community arts events.
For example, here is a regional pathway arts vision plan created by the principals in the Madison K-12 Pathway from 2019. This plan details a vision principals have for students to experience as they graduate throughout their academic career, and that arts access will be available at every step.
Madison K-12 Regional Arts Vision Plan
Within this pathway, each school then developed their own individual vision plan and yearly action plans. The following examples include an action plan Fairmount Park created in their first year of Creative Advantage implementation. The other example is the three-year vision plan created by West Seattle High School that outlines their goals for ensuring students’ access to a high-quality continuum of arts learning.
Fairmount Park Year 1 Arts Action Plan 2019-20