With your gift, you can help support ARTS EDUCATION ACCESS for students in Tarrant County and beyond!
Load the Bus: Support ACCESS to Arts-Focused Field Trips for Tarrant County students and teachers!
School field trips can be expensive and budget-sensitive school districts have many needs to meet. Imagination Fort Worth works to fill the gap by offering free or low-cost field trips to partnering Tarrant County schools. We believe that all kids should have the opportunity to see world-class art at our museums and performing arts institutions. For many kids, these field trips are their only opportunities to do so.Our goal is to load buses to send our kids on arts-focused field trips in Fort Worth. On average, it costs $330 to fill an entire bus ($6 per child, $150 per class).
VIDEO OF FIELD TRIP EXPERIENCE:
Support the Development of Teacher-Led Curriculum Modules:
Produced in partnership with local artists, these video-enhanced teaching modules provide educators with TEKS-aligned curriculum to support core learning outcomes - all while exposing students to a variety of arts and artists. Teachers receive videos featuring teaching artists in English and Spanish to complement their lessons.
FEEDBACK ON TEACHER LED MODULES:
“I loved that everything is prepped and incredibly easy to follow and that is stretches over multiple lessons! I love these so much.”
“This was a great way to tie literature to everyday life. The students are diverse, so this was a wonderful extension for SEL and inclusion.”
“I am emailing to let you know how much our students and I have absolutely loved your lessons and programming this year! Thank you so much for sharing such wonderful ideas and for inspiring students to love reading and the arts!”
“Really - excellent work! They were shared with us from our Distance Learning Specialist and all the elementary teachers in our program used them and loved them. The instructional specialists were so impressed - they thought we had purchased the curriculum! They are sharing the materials now too!”
“More than one family commented on multiple children in the family enjoying the videos! We used the Power Points in the class and the specialists used the Power Points with students individually…it is great that it is a flexible format! So fun and great for enrichment projects with occupational therapists and art teachers!”
Imagination Fort Worth (IFW) was originally founded in 1989 under the name, Imagination Celebration of Fort Worth, and was linked to the Kennedy Center's initiative to increase and improve arts experiences in learning. Research shows that arts in education experiences keep kids in school and ignite learning. During our history, we have served over 5 million students and earned national recognition. We are proud of our long history of putting "ARTS" in education by creating and providing ACCESS to students and teachers with the lowest access to opportunities. Recent research shows that introducing meaningful arts in education experiences to students living in high poverty areas, makes a lasting impact in their lives and in our community.
Imagination Fort Worth knows that by offering Arts - Integrated Out of School Experiences, Arts - Integrated Collaborative Field Trip Programs, Arts - Integrated In-School Experiences and Arts - Integrated Curriculum and Video Enhanced Modules, we accomplish these goals: Build creative capacity, imagination and innovation in thinking and problem solving Increase student and teacher understanding, skill level and learning of core subjects Increase student and teacher knowledge, skill level and appreciation of particular art forms Students will demonstrate an increased capacity, commitment and desire to learn Teachers will apply Arts -Integrated teaching strategies in their classrooms Students will gain an increased focus in college readiness/career development Social and emotional relationships improve between students, teachers and within the community
Outputs this fiscal year: Serve an average of 85,000 students , grades Pre-K - 12th grades, including 13 of the 17 ISD's within greater Fort Worth, 1/4 of all counties in Texas, across the United States and into Canada. We will provide a minimum of 20 unique arts education experiences for students and teachers with the lowest access to opportunities.
Thank you for your consideration of giving. Your donations will help us further our mission and ensure that teachers and students have creative classroom curriculum to spark and nurture learning!
Specifically, we need your financial support to tackle; cuts in School Budgets and in particular Arts Education as we fill those gaps, rising costs of transportation which hinder our ability to provide field trips, and need for capacity building for the rising number of new teachers.
Mission
Celebrating a 37th year of "IMAGINATION in EDUCATION": Imagination Fort worth creates and provides high impact educational programming that integrate diverse art forms with core curriculum. We provide ACCESS to the arts, for ALL, and especially for students from communities with high poverty and the lowest access to the arts.
We hold the vision of an educational culture that acknowledges the gift of the human imagination and nurtures creative capacity in young learners and their teachers.
Needs
Please support our North Texas Giving Day efforts to bring in $1,000, which defray budget cuts and rising costs for field trip buses, and revenue to meet the rising needs for capacity building of new teachers all over Texas, requesting arts based curricular modules.
Equity Statement
We are committed to the principles of diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.