Welcome to

Dwight Rich
School of the Arts

K-6    An Artful Learning School

 

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At Dwight Rich, we will be:
 

• Engaging students with a Bernstein-inspired “Artful Learning” model of arts integration aligned to Michigan grade level standards.
• Implementing Project Based Learning based on the BIE model.

Dwight Rich School of the Arts offers unique learning experiences for K-6 students utilizing technology and art labs, along with dance and music studio spaces.

What is Arts Integration?

Arts integration is a teaching approach where students construct and demonstrate their learning through an art form. Students engage in a creative process which connects an art form to their subject(s) of study to enhance their understanding. This involves visual, performing, music, media, and communication arts.

What Makes Dwight Rich Special?
 

• Technology-based learning and arts programming.
• Art labs, technology labs, dance, music and performance studio space.
• Content and teaching resources: Project-based Learning, SAFARI Montage, Aldebran Robotics

The Artful Learning Model

The four main quadrants of this model encourage and support best teaching practices while improving the manner in which both students and teachers learn.
They are:

• EXPERIENCE
• INQUIRE
• CREATE
• REFLECT

Dwight Rich School of the Arts will:

facilitate Arts Immersion Weeks – engaging students in arts creation and learning through an Artist-in-Residence program that increases student exposure to the arts, culminating in school-based performances and family programs at the Wharton Center.

Dwight Rich Partners with the Best
 

• The Kennedy Center and MSU's Wharton Center
• Broad Art Museum
• United Arts Council and Living Rhythms
• Disney Musicals in Schools and the Wharton Center
• MSU Museum

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Artful Learning Concepts, Significant Questions and Masterworks

 

Kindergarten

Concept: Change

Significant Question: How does an awareness of change help us understand the world?

Masterwork: Mozart's 12 variations of Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

First Grade

Concept: Relationships

Significant Question: Why are relationships necessary and where do we find them?

Masterwork: What a Wonderful World by Louis Armstrong

Second Grade

Concept: Transformation

Significant Question: What types of transformation do we see in our lives/our world?

Masterwork: Picasso's Self Portraits

 

Third Grade

Concept: Adaptation

Significant Question: Why is adaptation necessary in our world?

Masterwork: Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" and Chris Jordan's "Running the Numbers II"

 

 

Fourth Grade

Concept: Systems

Significant Question: What impact do systems have on our lives and the world?

Masterwork: Diego Rivera's "Detroit Industry" Mural at the DIA

Fifth Grade

Concept:Cause and Effect

Significant Question: How does cause and effect create change?

Masterwork: Shadowland by Philobolus

Sixth Grade

Concept: Cause and Effect

Significant Question: How does cause and effect shape the world we live in?

Masterwork: Mercy, Mercy Me by Marvin Gaye

 

Art's Team

Concept: Transformation

Significant Question:

Masterwork: Harlem's Little Blackbird: The Story of Florence Mills by Renee Watson