The Fine Arts Departments offers students opportunities to express themselves artistically while preparing for careers and avocations. Fine arts students participate in many activities in their schools and communities as a part of their challenging educational programs. The evidence of the outstanding arts program can be seen in the many honors, awards, and scholarships that are won by individual students and performing arts groups.

The Standards
The comprehensive, sequential curriculum is built on the Florida Sunshine State Standards for the Arts, district curriculum guides, and school guidelines.

Classes Available
All elementary students attend visual arts and music classes at least one time a week for approximately 40 minutes. One elementary school offers a dance program in which all students participate. Band instruction is available in all middle and high schools. Chorus instruction is available in some middle and high schools. Art instruction is offered in all middle and high schools. Dance is offered in some high schools.

Community Support
To enhance learning opportunities, several community arts organizations prepare teacher’s guides and present student focused theatre, dance, and orchestra performances and visual arts exhibitions in the schools and at local venues.

Please visit our Art and Music web sites for complete information on those programs.

Debbie Gallagher, Specialist
Fine Arts, Foreign Language and Multicultural Ed.
E-mail:  gallagdd@sbac.edu