Duxberry Arts Elementary is the citywide, 100% School Choice, Arts IMPACT Elementary School where the arts are infused deeply into the basic academic curriculum. Duxberry has a full-time arts team composed of certified teachers in visual art, music, dance, and drama. We have a wooden dance floor and well-equipped rooms for all arts classes. We collaborate and expose our student population to varied arts forms through our connections with the Greater Columbus Arts Council Artist in the Schools auditions, our Arts Festival, projects with Ballet Met, Jazz Arts Group, Columbus Children’s Theatre and Phoenix Theatre. Each student is exposed to an hour of each arts class every week. During arts classes, classroom teachers integrate their material and often collaborate with arts teachers to reinforce key concepts for their students. model, first introduced to the district in the 1970's. This stands for "Interdisciplinary Model Program in the Arts for Children and Teachers," and the idea is to provide children with a truly holistic education. Part of an official vision statement for our school reads as follows:
"Arts I.M.P.A.C.T. is a teaching/learning approach in which the arts are infused deeply into the basic academic curriculum. Our central goal is to make the educational process more thoughtful, humanizing, challenging, productive, and enjoyable for everyone involved: students, teachers and parents.
* to reinforce the academic program by integrating arts activities and skill development for all children
* to help children discover the joy of learning by enriching their creative, appreciative and expressive capacities which will, in turn, make them want to come to school
* to allow children the joy of experiencing success and constantly striving to improve
* to help students to become self-directed, self- controlled, self-respecting, dignified human beings.
