VVUSD's arts programming is grounded in the California Arts Standards and a belief that every student deserves a sequential, standards-based arts education.
The California Arts Standards for dance, media arts, music, theatre, and visual arts, Prekindergarten through Grade Twelve.
View on CDE.ca.gov →Adopted by the State Board of Education in 2020, the framework guides TK–12 arts instruction with implementation resources by chapter.
View framework →Printable versions of the California Arts Standards for classroom use.
View folder →The artistic thinking habits VAPA instruction aims to build in every student.
How design thinking connects to arts instruction and creative problem-solving.
View resource →Connections between the artistic process and the scientific method.
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