Alignment with UTC Strategic Plan
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The Kim Alan Wheetley Gift Fund
Help us continue preparing future arts educators and provide professional learning opportunities in and through the arts!!
"SCEA doesn't just prepare me to teach the arts. They help me make a difference through the arts."
-Cierra Dolata, UTC Theatre Major and Education Minor, Class of 2019
The Arts-Based Collaborative aligns with the UTC strategic plan through building bridges beyond the classroom in and through arts. To learn more about the UTC strategic plan, please click here.
Goal 1: Transform lives through meaningful learning experiences.
Arts-Based Collaborative recently became an affiliate of the national Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts. Through our affiliate, UTC-Wolf Trap, highly trained teaching artists facilitate multi-session residencies in early childhood classrooms. During each residency, a UTC-Wolf Trap Teaching Artist mentors the classroom teacher on supporting their students' school readiness, literacy, and social emotional learning needs in and through the arts.
Goal 2: Inspire, nurture and empower scholarship, creativity, discovery, innovation, and entrepreneurial initiatives.
Arts-Based Collaborative empowers the campus and surrounding community to discover how an artistic discipline can transform a variety of fields and disciplines. Arts-Based Collaborative programs have a cross-sector impact in education and healthcare that open doors for students to engage in interdisciplinary research and creative endeavors.
Goal 3: Ensure stewardship of resources through strategic alignment investments.
Arts-Based Collaborative programs supports the area's creative community by cultivating a roster of teaching artists to facilitate arts integration residencies and professional development programs across the tri-state, Chattanooga region.
Goal 4: Embrace diversity and inclusion as a path to excellence and societal change.
We collaborate with artists and clinicians from diverse backgrounds and experiences to develop and implement a culturally responsive and place-based curriculum rooted in arts-based practice.