VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS

Beliefs

Provide a curriculum that is aligned, assessed, and performance-based in performing and visual arts. Our instructors are committed to the education of the whole child and as a component of that education, we believe that every student should have basic knowledge, skills, and appreciation of the fine arts

Guiding Principles

Empower students to develop and achieve their creative and expressive potential through aligned, articulated, and assessed experience in the arts.

Instill lifelong involvement in and appreciation of the arts through the inspiration of instruction and diversity in learning experiences; and foster a high level of achievement in the artistic disciplines.

The arts teach students to:

▪ Understand human experiences, both past and present;

▪ Adapt to and respect others' ways of thinking, working, and expressing themselves

▪ Learn artistic modes of problem solving, which bring an array of expressive, analytical, and developmental tools to every human situation

▪ Understand the influence of the arts, in their power to create and reflect cultures, in the impact of design on virtually all we use in daily life, and in the interdependence of work in the arts with the broader worlds of ideas and actions

▪ Make decisions in situations where there are no standard answers

▪ Analyze nonverbal communication and make informed judgments about cultural products and issues; and, communicate thoughts and feelings in a variety of modes, giving them a vastly more powerful repertoire of self-expression.

Resources

University Interscholastic League

Texas Music Educators Association

Texas Dance Teachers Association

National Association for Music Education

Texas Educational Theatre Association

Texas Art Educators Association www.uil.org www.tmea.org www.tdea.org www.nafme.org www.txeta.com/ www.taea.org/

Visual And Performing Arts In La Porte Isd

The department of the Visual and Performing Arts in La Porte ISD encompasses Band, Choir, Orchestra, Theatre/Drama, Dance, Visual Art, and Elementary Music. Over 75% of the student body of LPISD is enrolled in some type of Fine Arts program. These groups represent the district in state and national competitions and performance every year. Many LPISD students go on to and choose some type of Fine Art discipline as a college major.

Highlights of the La Porte ISD Visual and Performing Arts programs:

UIL Sweepstakes (all performing music groups)

LPHS Bulldog Marching Band and Chatos Dance team

Texas Music Educators Association All-State Participants

Texas Dance Educators Association All-State Participants

UIL One Act Play Qualification at Region, Area and State level

VASE and Scholastic Art student Region and State qualification

La Porte High School annual musical

Baker 6th Grade Campus Piano Lab

2023 Winner Best Communities for Music Education

Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo School Art Hall of Fame

Annual Elementary Fine Arts Camp

Contact Information

Leadership

Director of Visual and Performing Arts

Matthew Burke

281-604-7040, burkem@lpisd.org

Secretary to the Director of Visual and Performing Arts

Marilyn Neumann

281-604-7090, neumannm@lpisd.org