This year, the VAPA Enhancement Program will fund field trips, artist residencies culminating in student performances, murals, ukuleles, new music and more. Each successful applicant linked the request to ongoing curriculum goals. Eight teachers will receive up to $2,500. Eleven teachers will receive up to $500. Recipients span elementary, middle, and high schools throughout the district (see list below), with over 1,350 students benefitting from this program. The reach extends onward to future years with new equipment and to the community via student performances, and as intended, these awards create a ripple of arts awareness at each site.
Larry Baza, VAPA Foundation President, says, “The VAPA Foundation exists to provide support for teachers of music, dance, theater, and the visual arts throughout the San Diego Unified School District. The VAPA Enhancement Program reaches across grade levels providing needed funds for special projects, materials and transportation for field trips. Nineteen teachers were successful in securing VAPA Foundation funds to create exciting student experiences for learning art forms.”
A full list of recipients can be found at https://www.sandiegounified.org/vapanews/nineteen-sdusd-teachers-receive-vapa-foundation-funding.
