The US Department of Education has awarded a $1.1-million grant to Dramatic Results, an award-winning educational arts-based charitable agency which has served more than 17,000 students with innovative learning environments to provide arts education programs to Long Beach Unified students over three years.
The funding will support Dramatic Results’ Write-On Arts program, a language arts/visual arts integrated program, for 600-plus students as part of their regular instructional day and provide professional development for 60-plus classroom teachers working in the lowest performing inner-city schools in Long Beach.
“With our two past federal grants for Math in a Basket, we have fostered academic motivation within the classroom for over 1,200 students, while bringing up their math scores,” said Beverly White, Dramatic Results operations manager and evaluation coordinator. “With this longitudinal Write-On Arts project, we hope to continue to enhance academic motivation and positive group collaboration, this time integrating art with English language arts to increase student proficiency.”
One of only two three-time grantees of this award in the state of California, Signal Hill-based Dramatic Results was successful in securing these federal funds because of significant gains in students’ CST scores after participating in Dramatic Results’ programs.
Founded in 1992, Dramatic Results’ mission is to facilitate student success by stimulating curiosity and fostering creativity through a hands-on, arts-based approach to learning.
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