Arts Academy

The Arts Academy at Hickory Hills Elementary provides kindergarteners through fifth grade students a comprehensive, sequential academic program that incorporates the performing and visual arts in the teaching of core courses. The program connects the arts to all content areas and offers meaningful, hands-on learning designed to meet and exceed the Georgia Performance Standards.
Key Features:
- All students receive instruction in art, music, dance, and drama weekly
- Performance partnerships with Cobb Symphony Orchestra and Georgia Dance Conservatory/ Ruth Mitchell Dance Theatre
- Arts Now provides faculty with ongoing professional development focused on arts integration
- Artists-in-residence and arts-focused field trips
- Community Arts Advisory Committee
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Key Benefits:
- The arts provide students with a creative outlet while challenging their intellect
- The arts provide students more opportunity to collaborate, reflect and make choices
- The arts engage and offer challenges to all students from every cultural background
- Arts-based instruction can increase family and community support.
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