About the program

Assistance for Arts

This 5-year grant-funded project supports opportunities for students and staff at Hoonah City Schools to interact with art through targeted initiatives that incorporate local ways of knowing, artists in residence, professional development, and special events.

Grant Goals & Objectives

Art Director

An Art Director and Native Artists in Residence will be hired to deliver at least one hour of embedded coaching and mentoring in every Hoonah classroom each week, totaling at least 40 hours of PD each year.

Teacher Stipends

Teachers will earn stipends for completing online workshops and coursework through the Alaska Arts Education Consortium or Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM.

Full-Time Music Teacher

A new, full-time Music Educator will be hired to lead classes in Music Education, Instrumental Music, and Vocal Music – reestablishing a Hoonah Chorus and Hoonah Band.

Native Artists in Residence

The Native Artists in Residence will provide ongoing opportunities for Hoonah students to complete culturally reflective arts experiences, both during the traditional school day and in an after school enrichment environment.

Contracted Arts Teacher

A contracted STEAM Art Teacher will push-in to science instruction at least once each month, leading fully integrated, hands-on arts experiences that align directly to content covered in science. Lesson plans will be shared with classroom teachers, building capacity for arts-integrated instruction.

Quarterly Art Nights

Quarterly Arts Night events will be held, bringing generations together to experience the arts in coordination with the Director of Cultural Programming and Native Artist in Residence. To feature band and chorus presentations, Indigenous art creation opportunities, visual art showcases, and drama / theater productions.

Curricular Leadership Team

The Curricular Team will work with the National Park Service and Sealaska Heritage Institute to create a vertically aligned Scope and Sequence for the Arts for statewide dissemination, building a wealth of Arts Education lesson plans for students K-12 that provide authentic instruction in Tlingit history, culture, and traditions.

Annual Reports

Annual REport: Year 2

Annual Report: Year 3

Scope & Sequence

Current Scope & Sequence

More REsources

Teaching Art

Project Zero Thinking Routines

This toolbox highlights thinking routines developed across a number of research projects at PZ. A thinking routine is a set of questions or a brief sequence of steps used to scaffold and support student thinking.

Collaborative ARt

These lessons, at different grade levels, teach students how to contribute ideas for the group as well as how to compromise. The groups use line, shape, color, texture, value and space to make a group artwork.

Drama Based Instruction

This website for the Drama for Schools program is designed to be your guide for integrating drama into your curriculum. It is meant to serve as a practical resource as you begin designing your own drama-based lessons.

Forest theatre is a set of creative exercises and mindfulness based games to reconnect with nature and with yourself. In this article you will learn a range of interesting activities for nature play.

Focus 5, Inc. provides high-quality, professional learning opportunities and program consulting focused on aligning arts integration, best instructional practices, and current thinking in the field of arts and education.

Kennedy Center: Start with the ARts

START WITH THE ARTS is an instructional resource that enables teachers and parents to create meaningful learning experiences for young children utilizing all of the arts--visual arts, creative movement, creative drama, and music.

FRom the Top Daily Joy

Daily Joy is a project of From the Top. It began in the very early days of the Covid-19 pandemic and continues today to offer a much-needed respite from the anxiety and worry that we encounter in the world.

ARts Integration & STEAM / Accelerator

These free arts integration lessons are samples from The Accelerator. They’re a perfect way for you to get started with arts integration and STEAM, or to enhance a program you already have in place. Available for Grades K-12.

Visual Arts Curriculum

The Juneau School District’s Visual and Media Arts curriculum begins with a K-12 Scope and Sequence including Northwest Coast Arts, and has been developed to recognize the importance and integration of Alaska Native Arts within our schools and curriculum.

Goldbelt Heritage

GHF’s Education Department has made it our mission to build and fortify our students’ connection to the Tlingit culture. In weaving Haa Shuká Tundatáani into curriculum and public schools, we will not only preserve our culture, language and customs- but also will foster students' ability to identify values, observe, comprehend abstraction, as well as purposely reflect on what they’ve learned.

SEALASKA Heritage

Our education programs reach children at all educational stages, from pre-school to high school. Our scholarship program helps Alaska Natives who are Sealaska shareholders and descendants pay for college, university, and vocational and technical schools. And our curricula help educators teach Southeast Alaskan Native languages as well as core subjects integrated with Native culture, art, language and history.