With your gift, you can help support arts access for students in Fort Worth ISD and beyond!
Load the Bus: Support Arts-Focused Field Trips in Fort Worth ISD
School field trips can be expensive and budget-sensitive school districts have many needs to meet. Imagination Fort Worth works to fill the gap by offering free or low-cost field trips to partnering Fort Worth ISD schools. We believe that all kids in Fort Worth should have the opportunity to see world-class art at our museums and performing arts institutions. For many kids, these field trips are their only opportunities to do so.Our goal is to load 152 buses to send our kids on arts-focused field trips in Fort Worth. On average, it costs $330 to fill an entire bus ($6 per child, $150 per class).
Support the Development of Teacher-Led Curriculum Modules
Produced in partnership with local artists, these video-enhanced teaching modules provide educators with TEKS-aligned curriculum to support core learning outcomes - all while exposing students to a variety of arts and artists. Teachers receive videos featuring teaching artists in English and Spanish to complement their lessons.
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Imagination Fort Worth (IFW) was originally founded in 1989 under the name, Imagination Celebration of Fort Worth, and was linked to the Kennedy Center's initiative to increase and improve arts experiences in learning. Research shows that arts in education experiences keep kids in school and ignite learning. During our history, we have served over 5 million students and earned national recognition. We are proud of our long history of putting "ARTS" in education by creating and providing ACCESS to students and teachers with the lowest access to opportunities. Recent research shows that introducing meaningful arts in education experiences to students living in high poverty areas, makes a lasting impact in their lives and in our community.
Imagination Fort Worth knows that by offering Arts - Integrated Out of School Experiences, Arts - Integrated Collaborative Field Trip Programs, Arts - Integrated In-School Experiences and Arts - Integrated Curriculum and Video Enhanced Modules, we accomplish these goals:
Build creative capacity, imagination and innovation in thinking and problem solving
Increase student and teacher understanding, skill level and learning of core subjects
Increase student and teacher knowledge, skill level and appreciation of particular art forms
Students will demonstrate an increased capacity, commitment and desire to learn
Teachers will apply Arts -Integrated teaching strategies in their classrooms
Students will gain an increased focus in college readiness/career development
Social and emotional relationships improve between students, teachers and within the community
Outputs this fiscal year: Serve an average of 65,000 students , grades Pre-K - 12th grades, including 13 of the 17 ISD's within greater Fort Worth, 1/4 of all counties in Texas, across the United States and into Canada. We will provide a minimum of 20 unique arts education experiences for students and teachers with the lowest access to opportunities.
Thank you for your consideration of giving. Your donations will help us further our mission and ensure that teachers and students have creative classroom curriculum to spark and nurture learning!
Specifically, we need your financial support to tackle; cuts in School Budgets and in particular Arts Education as we fill those gaps, rising costs of transportation which hinder our ability to provide field trips, and need for capacity building for the rising number of new teachers.