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Busbee Creative Arts Academy Recognized by Lions Club
From West Metro News The Cayce-West Columbia Lion’s Club has recognized students from Busbee Creative Arts Academy and Northside Middle School for being selected as one of the top Peace Poster contest winners from their schools. The winners were presented with a gift at the last Lion’s Club meeting at Grecian Gardens. The winners from […]
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May
30
Bonner Elementary Student Honored in Junior Duck Stamp Contest
From: The Berkeley Independent Congratulations to Greg Lee, first-grade student at Bonner Elementary School, for his honorable mention in the 2017 South Carolina Junior Duck Stamp Contest. His artwork of a merganser duck was in competition with students statewide, and will be displayed at the Charleston County Library in downtown Charleston during the Southeast Wildlife […]
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May
30
First Year ABC Site League Academy Named “School to Watch”
League Academy of Communication Arts has been named a 2017 School to Watch by the National Forum to Accelerate Middle Grades Reform. The program recognizes middle schools that are moving forward in the areas of academic excellence, developmental responsiveness, social equity and organizational structure. This is the second time League has received this honor. Congratulations! […]
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May
30
New Prospect Elementary’s “Night at the Museum”
From GoUpstate.com New Prospect Elementary School students brought well-known pieces of art to life as part of a research project on paintings. Thursday night, the school held its “Night at the Museum” event, which featured students in costume posing as figures in famous paintings. The fourth-, fifth- and sixth-grade students each put together a research […]
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May
30
Kingsbury Elementary Teachers Explore Best Practices in the Arts
From Sumter School District December 16, 2016 Newsletter Four teachers from Kingsbury Elementary (Sylvester Hickmon, Michelle Snyder, Michelle Blassengale and Theresa Witherspoon) recently traveled to Bonner Elementary in Moncks Corner to participate in the fall ABC site visit. Arts teachers, classroom teachers, administrators, and arts coordinators from ABC sites across the state came together to […]
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May
30
Southside Middle School Student to Sing in National Honor Choir
From SCNOW Morning News More than 4,000 choir students from across the nation auditioned, and only 300 made the cut. Tripp Taylor of Southside Middle School is one of those students. This March, Taylor will travel to Minneapolis to perform in the American Choral Director’s Association National Honor Choir. The event is three days of […]
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May
30
ABC Institute Partnership with NAfME to Benefit Rural and Urban Classrooms
At the end of July, the National Association for Music Education (NAfME) was named one of 21 organizations to receive a Library of Congress grant on Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS). Seventy-six organizations applied for the grant—including higher education and cultural institutions, school districts, and other educational organizations. “The mission of the National Association for […]
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May
30
Harrisburg Elementary Creates Legacy Sculpture
From: The Herald Harrisburg Elementary is the latest school in Lancaster County School District to create its own unique legacy sculpture with local artist Bob Doster, who has been working with schools and students since the 1970s. Approximately 150 fifth graders each drew a self portrait on steel. Doster helped them use a plasma cutter […]
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May
30
ABC Site Pine Street Elementary Named to National Register of Historic Places
From: GoUpstate.com Pine Street Elementary School was recently placed on the National Register of Historic Places. The Spartanburg District 7 school opened its doors to students for the first time in 1929. Now, its 87 years of educating students is being recognized at a national level. “They don’t build buildings like this anymore,” said Principal […]