Our
program DREAMS® is a registered trademark of SUCCESS,
I&I. The acronym DREAMS® means Developing Realistic
Educational Assets by Managing Students.
Bridging
Visual & Performing Arts Across The Curriculum
I
HEAR and I forget…
I SEE and I remember…
I DO and I understand…
Profound
knowledge is achieved by learning from “insperience”
or an internalization of information presented or accessed.
“Insperience” takes place when we are allowed
the opportunity to engage in a process. In other words
we don’t learn to drive by watching someone else
drive…we learn by driving ourselves. When we are
allowed to learn in this manner knowledge is more deeply
recorded within our memory than theory or speculation.
Youth are taught spirituality, discipline, respect, responsibility
and other social requirements through the use of and the
inclusion of the arts. Additionally, core curriculum components
(Math, Language Arts, Social Studies, History, etc.) can
be addressed in an exciting new way. The staff at Gaskiya’s
Compound believes that by enhancing vocabulary, approach,
and delivery of core curriculum elements through the arts,
an engaging atmosphere is created for participants. Our
classroom collaboration with administrators, teachers
and other personnel assists in developing solutions for
building the bridge to educational competence.
It
is our collective responsibility to teach and to educate
our youth to appreciate and respect their heritage…for
in learning to appreciate their heritage, they will in
turn learn to appreciate and respect themselves and others.
Our curriculum shall be Afrikan conscious and built around
the arts: music, dance, the visual and performing arts
and creative writing. Our process emphasizes the Afrikan
frame of reference in which knowledge is brought forth
from the individual.
There
is a clear and definite link between music and math, between
the graphic arts and scientific visualization, between
art and history and there is a need for a new emphasis
on whole brain thinking in our culture.
