GENERAL INFORMATION
Boston Arts Academy
174 Ipswich Street
Boston, MA 02115
Operating hours:
Hours vary please call
617-635-6470 for
specific information
Phone:
617-635-6470
E-mail:
Admissions:
bbonilla@boston.k12.ma.us
Web sites:
boston.k12.ma.us/baa
EVENTS
Events at, or related to Boston Arts Academy are listed throughout the Cultural District website. Please explore one the website categories and the Calendar in the upper right hand corner of this screen.
The Boston Arts Academy is committed to a rigorous academic and arts education for students who are eager to think creatively and independently, to question, and to take risks within a college preparatory program. As a pilot school within the Boston Public Schools, the Arts Academy is charged with being a laboratory of academic innovation and a beacon for arts education.
The Boston Arts Academy is a collaborative project between the Boston
Public Schools and ProArts Consortium, an association of six internationally
known institutions of higher learning specializing in the visual arts,
performing arts, and architecture: Berklee College of Music, Boston Architectural
Center, the Boston Conservatory, Emerson College, Massachusetts College
of Art, and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts.
* Our mission reflects the key components of our philosophy as a school
* We are a school that demonstrates a commitment to performing and visual
arts.
* We are a school that demonstrates a commitment to arts and academics-in
a way in which the two, rather than just coexisting, support, and compliment
each other.
* We are a school whose graduates will be prepared either to go on to
college or a profession in the arts.
* We are a school that is both a model of academic innovation and a model
of arts education. We are a school that has strong, productive partnerships
with higher learning institutions, particularly with the ProArts Consortium.
These partnerships are made manifest in our students doing course work
at those institutions, in staff from those institutions working with us
on curriculum development, in those institutions providing professional
development for our staff, and in those institutions providing summer
programs for our students.
* We are a school that exemplifies the best aspects of the Coalition of
Essential Schools: helping students to "learn to use their minds,
bodies, and spirits well"; emphasizing depth over breadth; applying
goals to all students to demonstrate mastery through exhibition; stressing
unanxious expectation, trust, and decency; considering teachers as generalists
as well as specialists with a commitment to the whole school; and modeling
democratic and equitable practices.
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