Welcome to our newest version of “The Fine Arts Focus” via our new blog! Teachers, parents, students, school officials, and community members are invited to follow and enjoy keeping up with district fine arts events, celebrations, and accomplishments of our students and faculty.
We want to especially welcome our new fine arts faculty members to RRISD! We are blessed with 261 talented and dedicated teachers in Art, Music, Theatre, and Dance, all of whom share a passion for the importance of the arts in the education of the whole child. Throughout the school year, we will collaborate on department goals related to campus and district objectives, as well as enhancing individual learning and collective student success in campus fine arts programs. We will continue to study, and act on, data relative to the impact of a continuous and sequential participation in fine arts on our students in all population groups. And although we continually advocate for the value of the arts in and of themselves, we will seek innovative methods of integrating our instruction across the total curriculum. And of course, we invite your suggestions as we continue to update and refine all of our processes.
I wishto express our appreciation to all of our teachers who participated in our second annual Fine Arts Customer Satisfaction Survey this past spring. We have already begun to evaluate and results and will utilize the valuable input in our efforts to support students and teachers.
Our department is supported by an outstanding team, including:
Lead Curriculum Specialist Lisa Roebuck – Although Lisa is involved with all aspects of our department, she takes the lead role in supporting Choral Music and Elementary Music, and will be working with our new Theatre Liaison, who will be selected very shortly.
Visual Arts Curriculum Specialist Tim Lowke – Tim is also involved with all aspects of our department, but takes the lead in supporting Visual Art at all levels. Tim is also on the art faculty and is fine arts chair at Cedar Ridge High School
Dance Curriculum Specialist Denise Cochran – Denise also assists in all areas of fine arts, but primarily facilitates curriculum and activities related to high school Dance and middle school PE-Dance.
Theatre Liaison - TBA - This person will be a full time teacher, but will serve an important role in professional development in Theatre and in facilitating district theatre initiatives.
Performing Arts Center Manager BettyJo Byrne – BettyJo manages the entire mechanism of the PAC operations.Performing Arts Center Technical Production Coordinator Brad Distelhorst – Brad is the “hands on” person for technical operations for events.
Department Budget Specialist/Administrative Associate Barbara Brown – Barbara is the most efficient, skilled, pleasant, and crucial associate that we could hope for. She deals with all financial and budgetary issues, assists with events, creates documents, and continues to work with our website
Finally, a huge THANK YOU to teachers in advance for all you do for our students! Please do not hesitate to contact me or any of our administrative team if we might be of assistance in any way. Have a great fall!
Jim
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