Powder Springs Elementary School 4570 Grady Grier Drive, Powder Springs GA 30127 (770) 222-3746

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIESHelp Build the Foundation

Center Stage Sponsorship Benefits:• Naming Rights to the Arts Integration Program for 3 years: Powder Springs Elementary,

An Arts Integration Model school, Sponsored by “YOUR LOGO HERE.”• Sign at front of school on Grady Grier Road• Company logo on all school communications: emails from teachers and administration, printed

newsletters or notes from teachers and administration• Logo in the top position on Foundation Wall• Participation in educational program (in-school speaker — Field trips to business location)• Tabletop exhibit space at Career Day, Fall Festival, Field Day, Open House• Speaking opportunity at PTA quarterly (2 min)• Recognition in promotional materials, on T-shirts, Facebook, etc.• Logo recognition on school website with link• Recognition in yearbook (up to 250 word corporate description plus logo) • Appreciation plaque for your business

Sponsorship Investment: $25,000

Orchestra Level Sponsorship Benefits:• Logo recognition on Foundation Wall• Participation in an educational program (in school speaker — Field• trips to business location)• Tabletop exhibit space at Career Day, Fall Festival, Field Day, Open House• Speaking opportunity at PTA once per semester (2 min)• Recognition in promotional materials, on T-shirts, Facebook, etc.• Logo recognition on school website with link• Recognition in yearbook (up to 100 word corporate description plus logo)• Appreciation plaque for your business

Sponsorship Investment: $5,000

Parterre Level Sponsorship Benefits:• Logo recognition on Foundation Wall at school• Speaking opportunity at PTA once per year (2 min)• Recognition in promotional materials, on T-shirts, Facebook, etc.• Logo recognition on school website with link• Logo recognition in yearbook• Appreciation plaque for your business

Sponsorship investment: $2,500

Mezzanine Sponsorship Benefits: • Logo recognition on Foundation Wall at school• Appreciation plaque for your business

Sponsorship investment: $500

Gallery Sponsorship Benefits: • Business listed on plaque in lobby

An Arts Integration School ModelSponsored by

YOUR LOGO HERE!”

Powder Springs Elementary School 4570 Grady Grier Drive, Powder Springs GA 30127 (770) 222-3746

• Appreciation plaque for your businessSponsors between $100 and $500

Powder Springs Elementary School 4570 Grady Grier Drive, Powder Springs GA 30127 (770) 222-3746

Research and data in comparable schools across the country show the benefits of this curricular design for students:

Researchers find that sustained learning in the arts correlates strongly with higher achievement in both math and reading.

In a study of a high-poverty schools in Chicago, the schools that were participating in the Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE), an arts-integrated program, made huge strides in closing the gap between high- and low-income students’ academic achievement. Schools in this model showed consistently higher average scores on the district’s reading and mathematics assessments over a six year period when compared to all district elementary schools.

Montgomery County, Maryland compared three arts integration-focused schools (AIMS) to three control schools over a three-year period. They found that AIMS schools with the highest percentage of minority and low-income students reduced the reading gap by 14 percentage points and the math gap by 26 percentage points over a three-year period. They also closely tracked the experiences of classroom teachers as they learned how to integrate the arts. Almost all teachers (79%) agreed that they had “totally changed their teaching” and (94%) that they had gained “additional ways of teaching critical thinking skills.”

North Carolina’s and Oklahoma’s network of A+ Schools is a whole-school reform model. Everybody participates in professional development in arts integration, from the principal to the cafeteria lady. These school tracked consistent gains in student achievement as compared to state and district averages. Importantly, years of research in both NC and OK A+ Schools show that A+ students consistently score as well or higher on statewide reading and mathematics assessments as students from more advantaged schools.

Multiple studies have concluded that curricular and extracurricular art studies and activities help keep high-risk dropout students stay in school.

New brain research shows that not only does arts integration improve skills in math and reading, but it promotes creativity, social development, personality adjustment, and self-worth.

Arts-engaged low income students are more likely than their non-arts-engaged peers to have attended and done well in college, established careers, volunteered in their communities and participated in the political process by voting. The conclusion of recent studies is that on average, arts-engaged low income students tend to perform more like higher-income students in the many types of comparisons.

Right Brain is a K-8 arts integration program in Portland, Oregon. The research firm WolfBrown, has reviewed standardized test scores for all 18,711 unique students who attended Right Brain partner schools between the 2007-08 and 2012-13 school with compelling results: After students began working with Right Brain, their scores more than doubled in reading and math. English language proficiency scores increased at least ten times as much after students participated in the program. In all cases, the increase in scores continued to rise over time. That is especially true for English Language Learners. 

New cognitive research findings include: Children who practiced a specific art form developed improved attention skills and improved general intelligence. Arts Integration techniques, which use multiple senses to repeat information, cause more information to be stored in long-term—as opposed to short-term memory, and may actually change the structure of the neurons.

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