Arts In Education

Bringing the Arts to Your Child's School

The purpose of the Arts in Education Program is to supplement and enrich the core curriculum by bringing arts-based and experiential learning opportunities into the classroom. These opportunities may be school-wide or grade specific.

Arts in Education programs include: visual arts, media arts, theater, dance, music, literature.

Experiential Enrichment programs include: math, science, technology, nature/environmental conservation, character development, health & wellness

• Examples include:

  • Don’t Wait to Unmake a Bully film production in Fourth Grade

  • Monarch butterflies in First Grade

  • Monthly mindfulness sessions with Ms. Jilly in all classrooms

  • Field trips to theater performances at the Middle School

  • Music and Art residencies - for ex. student hands-on claymation projects for all grades with Danny Somoza (a SS High School Graduate and Media Artist)

  • Musician visits - Jared Campbell (The Blue Project) and Mark Rust (America’s Musical Traditions)

  • Rural Soul African Drumming for Third Grade

  • Field trips to the Children’s Museum of Saratoga

  • Lake George Floating Classroom for Fifth Grade

  • Community Building Project and Downtown Walking Tour for Second Grade

  • Northshire Author Visits for all grades

Arts in Ed is funded through the SSCSD and PTA funds. PTA fundraising supports Arts in Ed, which allows Division Street to provide all grades with a variety of arts-based and experiential learning opportunities.

The PTA Arts in Ed coordinators work with the Arts in Ed teacher liaisons for each grade, specials teachers, and the front office to select and book Arts in Ed programs for Division Street. This year’s Arts in Ed Teacher Liaisons:

• Kindergarten = Toni Lynch

• First Grade = Abbie Marsh

• Second Grade = Michele Sperber

• Third Grade = Aine Antolowitz

• Fourth Grade = Maureen Agostinello

• Fifth Grade = Braiden White

• Specials Teachers = Kate Spector, Melissa Ferrie-Healy, Jason Armstrong

Be on the lookout for PTA newsletters, Facebook/Instagram posts, and other PTA and teacher communications detailing Arts in Ed events at the school.  

Current Programs

November 24th - 2nd Grade

“Barnaby Bejeebers’ Interstellar Science Adventure”

Stranded on Earth with a stalled starship, Barnaby Bejeebers—a quirky, interstellar shopkeeper — needs the imaginative energy of Earth children to blast off again! He invites students to help fuel his ship by learning the secrets of chemistry through a fun and foamy experiment called elephant toothpaste. This interactive program begins with a theatrical assembly and concludes with a hands-on activity focused on creativity and problem solving in smaller class groups.