The first year involves teachers attending the two-week summer workshop and having each teacher teach a unit of study per semester in the following school year. Arts Are Basic teachers returning for a second year attend a one-week summer workshop. Returning teachers are only required to teach one unit of study during the second school year. However, we continue to encourage one unit per semester as most beneficial for students. Basic program, they continue to maintain the status of an Arts Are Basic school.
Active status continues as long as the school team teaches one unit of study per year.
We recommend that no more than two years pass without teachers returning to the summer workshop for a one-week refresher course. Performance events to be used in the following school year are showcased during the full two weeks of the summer session. We recommend that all Arts Are Basic trained teachers attend these performances, even if they do not attend the workshop, in order to decide how best to focus their unit of study in the subsequent school year. Attendance at the initial two-week summer workshop by a minimum of 3 teachers from a single school. The principal of that school is asked to attend the workshop for a minimum of 3 days during the first week.