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Sweetwater Union High School District
URL: http://www.suhsd.k12.ca.us/

SDAN Contact: Russ Sperling
Title: Director of Visual and Performing Arts
Mailing Address: 670 L Street, Suite C, Chula Vista, CA
Phone: (619) 691-5848
e-mail: russ.sperling@suhsd.k12.ca.us

2007-08 Program Highlights

• Data driving proof from CAHSEE on value of arts
• 6 new collaborations and partnerships
  
• New facilities for theatres and remodeling theatre buildings
• Showcase of Summer Arts Camp at Eastlake High School
  
• Creating and writing a standards-based curriculum with teachers for music and theatre courses and program
  
• Brand-new, state-of-the-art VAPA facility and warehouse, music, video library, and repair shops
• California Ballet Scholarship Dance Project
• lV Arts Enhancement fund grants for special arts needs
• Award-wining students’ art to be displayed at Washington, D.C.
• TCAP professional development for arts teachers
• Writing a comprehensive arts policy for board approval

Strategic Plan

• Creation of an arts strategic plan committee
• Five-year plan for a comprehensive arts plan and funding strategies