VAPA Resources

Vapa Resources for Schools & Districts

"Crafting a Creative Merced County"

The Arts at MCOE

In order to offer a world-class education to students across the county,

MCOE is promoting and providing VAPA resourcing to districts, schools,

educators and administrators. The Visual

and Performing Arts offerings at MCOE

operate based on a set of Core Beliefs

for arts advocacy and access

as well as a set of Key Intentions that

serve as overarching goals for

arts education.

1. Students NEED the Arts: like they need science, math, water and air; they are a critical part of a well-rounded high-quality education, as needed to produce empathetic and globally-conscious members of society.

2. Students DESERVE the Arts: through good or bad times, in sickness or in health, the arts are not a privilege to be awarded only to the wealthy or the well-behaved.

3. Students CAN HAVE the Arts: there are creative options and advocacy strategies to get students the arts that they require in order to thrive, and we are prepared to exhaust every last one of them.

The Key Intentions

1. To Create – Develop programming for students and professional development for teachers and administrators.

2. To Collaborate – Nourish relationships across disciplines and communities in order to go further with more wide-reaching resources.

3. To Connect – Plug students in to the community, community to students, and students back to the schools.

4. To Celebrate – Widely announce, hold space for, and celebrate the wonderful and widely relevant opportunities for creativity in our county and beyond.

Newly Adopted California VAPA Standards!

Visual and Performing Arts Content Standards: Information and resources pertaining to the Content Standards for Visual and Performing Arts in California Public Schools

VAPA Content Standards

…ask about how Miss Noelle can support your teachers

in hitting new VAPA standards in the classroom by emailing MissNoelleSays@gmail.com!

Broadway Show Choir: Registration NOW OPEN!

For Students...