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Rachel Shepler
6 years in with the Juniata County School District, I'm loving the experience and the students are great!
Excited about Artsonia and the direction that it takes us! Thanks for joining in on your child's ART experiences and commenting on their awesome creativity. Art is very valuable to all of us because we can express ourselves in it and the students also get to write about their art. Thanks for also caring and valuing their art as it really boosts their confidence.
As always I'm so so appreciative from ... read more the support of parents, faculty and staff at JHS.
THANK YOU!
YEARS 2020-2021-2022 were definitely the most challenging years of my teaching career but they have given me great skills to thrust us forward to great endeavors in the classroom this year.
I couldn't agree more with 'Arts Editor', Oakley Burt. Please READ!
Imagine a world without the arts — a world without any music, film, dance, literature or any of the countless other mediums art exists through. That world is difficult to imagine, as a world without art or culture would be a devastatingly desolate, meaningless and dull one — devoid of the creativity and imagination we, as humans, possess. Art is the creative expression of one’s ideas and imaginations — it occupies every corner of the world. Yet, the importance of the arts is constantly being questioned, disregarded and taken for granted in many ways, starting with a lack of funding and education.
The arts are extremely significant to education. The beauty of teaching the arts to students is that it aids in developing creative people who think independently — self-expressive people with imaginative and innovative thinking. The arts should not be seen as secondary or supplementary to math and science courses. Rather, they should be seen as equally important in providing students with a well-rounded education.
In a paper titled “The Arts and Academic Achievement,” Lois Hetland and Ellen Winner wrote, “The arts are a fundamentally important part of culture, and an education without them is an impoverished education, leading to an impoverished society.”
“Studying the arts should not have to be justified in terms of anything else,” they continued. “The arts are as important as the sciences: they are time-honoured ways of learning, knowing, and expressing.”
Appreciating art in our lives
Art lives around us, it’s everywhere all at once — in the literature we read, cinema we watch, architecture we admire and more. It transcends language, political, social and cultural boundaries — seeking to bring people together as members of the human race instead of dividing. It exists as a pathway to a greater understanding of the world and ourselves, enriching our souls with passion in the process.
Art — in its various mediums — is vital in sustaining life. It should be viewed as highly important to education to create a thriving society with meaningful expression, imagination and flourishing cultures.
'Arts Editor', Oakley Burt
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