Fairview Elementary and Performing Arts Academy staff, students, and families take collective responsibility for providing a respectful, rigorous and engaging learning environment where the artistic process, along with inquiry and collaboration are used to promote life long learning and high levels of achievement for all students. Fairview Elementary is fortunate to have special community partners and programs:
Banneker Community Center sponsors Fairview’s Banneker at the View after-school program
The Indiana Jacobs School of Music provides violin instruction for students in grades 1-3. CODA Academy, founded by Fairview’s music teacher emerita, Kathy Heise, provides instruments and instruction for students in grades 4-6 after school through grants and private donations. Wonderlab Science Museum partners with Fairview through grants that provide opportunities for classroom field trips, family visits, and in-school presentations that integrate science with the arts. The Indiana University School of Education supports classroom instruction with practicum students and student teachers. Office of Student Learning provide numerous volunteers in the school. The Indiana University Hutton Honors College supports school literacy efforts. provides mentors for 60 Fairview students. Dr. Peggy Schultz provides Biology instruction to the third grade classrooms and supports the Fairview garden. Joe LaMantia, local artist, worked with students in 2010 to create the Artisticat sculpture, located on the southeast corner of the building. In 2009-10 the Sassafras Audubon Society coordinated the chimney swift tower, located at the northwest corner of the schoolyard. Ivy Tech partners with classrooms to develop arts-based strategies. Through a Community Foundation Grant, they are providing art and theatre instructors for the Fairview Title I Preschool classrooms. They provided an artist in residence to create a sculpture for the B-Line Trail. And many other individuals and groups!
