This year, the conference theme is JOY! Joy can positively impact education practices at every level of the school experience. Joy can impact teaching practices in and out of the classroom, and Joy can impact student achievement in arts programs. Join us in experiencing Joy as an educator in and through the arts!

REGISTRATION is now OPEN for PSAE's JOY! Annual Arts Integration Conference, October 9-10, in Spartanburg, SC! Check out PSAE's website for more information!

School Arts Support Grants should have a strong connection to addressing COVID related learning loss in and through the arts, promoting arts innovation, and/or increasing capacity to utilize arts integration as a teaching practice.

Grant awards total up to $2,500 and can be used in one of the following ways:

The SCAC recommends using the School Arts Support Grant Evaluation Rubric as a guide when writing your application. Grant panelists will score your application responses based on the criteria within this rubric.

For more information or advisement on this grant please contact Amanda Noyes.

For more information or advisement on this grant, please contact Kimberly Washburn Motte with questions.

Over the past few months, ABC Institute has been engaged in the strategic planning process. Even if you have never been through a strategic planning process, you probably have a good grasp on the intentions; to develop a document that communicates the direction and goals of an organization (or school) and the actions necessary to achieve those goals.

The South Carolina Department of Education (SCDE) is about to begin the standards review and revision process, and your feedback is critical!

Please consider investing a few minutes by completing the survey linked HERE. You may wish to have a copy of the standards available as you complete the form. Links to the standards are included below as well.

Links to 2017 SC College- and Career-Ready Standards for Visual and Performing Arts Proficiency: 

The SC Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities is wrapping up a busy summer! Check

out these highlights below.

traveled throughout the state, providing short residencies to community and school-

based summer programs, and serving over 1500 students in 17 counties.

summer program. During this two-week experience, students learned about film

production from start to finish. They wrote original scripts, learned how to use film

production equipment, worked together as a film crew and performed for the camera.

They ended the program with a screening of their short films. We are thrilled to now offer

film during the summer and to launch our high school film program for the 2024-2025

school year!

Are you a district administrator, principal, or other school leader planning professional

development at the start of the school year? Please consider including the Governor's School in your plans! Our Office of Outreach would love to provide professional learning opportunities to your arts teachers or speak with them about our free teacher resources. Opportunities are available both in person and virtually and are a great way to form strong partnerships from day one!

Learn more about Professional Learning Opportunities here or reach out to us via email.

In mid-September, young artists can start applying for 2024 summer programs and the 2024-2025 Residential High School year. Interested families are invited to join us this fall for tours, weekend events, virtual sessions, and our November 4th open house. For details, dates, and registration, visit SCGSAH.org/admissions-events.

Help your students learn more about careers in the arts! This fall, a member of the admissions team will be reaching out to offer our standards-based "Careers in the Arts" presentation. To schedule a presentation at your school, complete this short Google form or contact Admissions.

Celebrate, Learn, & Share!

The arts education services include partnerships with schools and community organizations for the following: one day-artists visits, multiple week-long

residencies, workshops, afterschool programs, evening classes, zoom classes and festivals! Programs are offered in the following formats: hybrid, virtual, and/or face to face. AASC priority is to continue to practice Covid safety protocol in face-face formats. Programs are supported in part from the SC Arts Commission which is funded in part by the National Endowment for the Arts. Activities can be inclusive or self-contained. Interested schools/educators/ and community service organizations must contact

Executive Director, Julia M Brown-DuBose at 803.734.0445 or e-mail.

FY 2022-2023 will end Sept.1. AASC still has availability for our I.D.E.A. (Inclusion Diversity Equity Access) residency program for AUGUST!! EMAIL JULIA TODAY. AASC seeking schools and community organizations for the most vulnerable participants. NOTE : Must meet with participants a minimum 4 times.

Aiken Center for the Arts, Aiken

Aiken Special Olympics Festival

Arts Center of Coastal Carolina, Hilton Head

Cedar Springs Academy, Spartanburg

City of Columbia P&R Center for the Arts

Charleston County Sheriff’s Office, North Charleston

Columbia Parks and Recreation / Columbia Art Center

CLIA: SCDOE: 2023 Curriculum Leadership Institute in the Arts-I, Charleston

Columbia Children’s Theatre / Papa Tank Inclusion/ West Columbia

Darlington School District

Gibbes Middle School, Columbia

Hyatt Park Elementary, Columbia

I A.M. Beautiful, Inc., Darlington

Mauldin High School, Greenville County

Network for Good / Southfield, Michigan

PAC Arts Steering Committee, Columbia (Richland School District II)

Papa Tank Center for Inclusion, West Columbia

United Cerebral Palsy of SC, Lexington

Simpsonville Arts Center

SC School for the Deaf and the Blind, Spartanburg

Woodmont High School, Greenville County

Williamsburg County: Kingstree Magnet Middle School for the Arts