The Maui Arts & Cultural Center and the State Department of Education, Maui District, joined the John F. Kennedy Center for Performing Arts’ program Partners in Education in May 1995. In 2004, Kamehameha Schools Maui joined the partnership.
Beginning in school year 1995–96, one year after opening our doors, Maui Arts & Cultural Center made a commitment to provide a comprehensive, quality arts education program for Maui county’s students. Art immersion field trips for students, CanDo! Days, teacher workshops, and performances for students are a cornerstone of The MACC’s programs. A whole generation of students and teachers have been influenced by the arts programs available at MACC. Every year, about 18,000 kids and 200 teachers participate in the programs. The Hawai‘i ’95 Partners in Education team has become a national leader in arts education!
Whether you are a veteran of our arts education programs or a newcomer, we welcome you to sign up for workshops, performances, and CanDo! Days. Let us know if your school is interested in becoming an Arts Partner school. You might want to have a visiting artist come to your school, or maybe have an arts integrated workshop at a staff development waiver day. We are here for your educational needs!
Our arts-in-education programs continue to provide:
- Standards based professional development for teachers and teaching artists,
- Performances, Celebrating the Artist In Us and CanDo! Days for students, and
- Research into how the arts impact student learning and teacher practice.
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2008-09 Education Brochure
Welcome to the 13th year of the Hawai’i ’95 Team’s commitment to arts education through The Kennedy Center’s Partners in Education program. The 2007-08 school year marked a milestone of success with the opening of the first fully arts integrated public school in Hawai‘i, Pōmaika‘i Elementary in Kahului. With Pōmaika‘i as a “lab school,” the MACC completed the baseline year of research into how an arts integrated curriculum impacts student learning and attitudes of teachers, students, and parents. The results are impressive—and can be implemented in any school!
- 100% of the teachers reported improvement in student learning through integration of drama strategies in all subjects.
- The number of teacher professional development hours definitely correlates with effective arts integrated teaching.
- When a school has a vision that everyone supports, and when that vision is the foundation for all planning, success is not only possible but highly likely.
This year’s workshops and performances strongly support the “Big Ideas” that organize the Hawai’i Content and Performance Standards in the fine arts: How the Arts Communicate and How the Arts Shape and Reflect Culture. We continue with the third year of emphasis on storytelling as an overarching theme. You will find nearly all the workshops connect to story in one form or another. Bringing Hawaiian and world cultures into the classroom through story, music, dance, drama, and visual arts will help your students connect to their roots and the larger world while they embrace the joy of learning.
