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Art
enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
~ Thomas
Merton, 'No Man Is an Island'
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Valencia Park Center for Academics, Drama, and Dance is a single-track, year-round elementary school located on Skyline Drive in the ethnically diverse Valencia Park neighborhood of San Diego. We offer a high quality academic curriculum enriched by four innovative Magnet studios and creative standards based instruction. In the two dance studios students are introduced to a variety of dance styles and are given opportunities to express themselves through creative movement, while the theatre studios focus on teaching students acting, movement, technical theatre and an appreciation of the theatre. The school’s enrollment in September 2007 was 650 students in kindergarten through Grade 5 and 100 students in the state preschool program. Approximately 200 of our students are English language learners.
For over twenty years Valencia Park has been offering this dynamic program and are now teaching children of former students. Valencia Park is an ideal setting in which to exhibit the values of different ethnic backgrounds and to practice good human relations.
Vision Statement
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Valencia Park is a place where students are highly prepared and enthusiastically engaged learners and performers. They are well-rounded, respectful and inquisitive participants in their own learning.
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Valencia Park is a place where self-reflective teachers energetically share knowledge that integrates drama and dance into a curriculum that elevates all students to excellence. They participate, encourage and respect their colleagues, students and the community as they make decisions based on meeting the needs of a diverse student population.
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Valencia Park is a place where administrators put the academic needs of students first, while holding all stakeholders accountable for scholarly excellence. Administrators are highly visible around campus, set the tone for clear school-wide expectations, and ensure that all students participate in mainstage productions.
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Valencia Park Center for Academics, Drama, and Dance is a place where the support staff collaboratively facilitates and motivates all stakeholders in teaching and learning in a safe, creative, and expressive environment.
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Valencia Park is a school where all families are respected members of a diverse learning community which focuses on academics, dance and drama. Families at Valencia Park are actively involved and committed to the atmosphere of excellence needed to nurture and promote students toward their academic and artistic potential.
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Valencia Park is a place where the community and the school work together to share ideas and resources. We nurture a learning environment of academic excellence, responsible citizenship, and creativity through performing arts.
Mission Statement
Valencia Park’s mission is to support the district’s concept that every child will learn to his or her maximum potential in a safe, orderly, and nurturing environment. Our goals are to provide a quality instructional program; provide maximum opportunities for students to learn; show academic progress in all curricular areas; provide high-level instruction that addresses the individual needs of all students; continue an accountability process that focuses on high expectations and grade-level standards; provide opportunities for teachers, administrators and parents to learn effective strategies to enhance student success; and continue a shared-decision making process that involves parents, teachers and administrators.
SMART Goals
By July, 2009 a minimum of 47% or 192/393 of the students school-wide, including all significant
subgroups, will score proficient or above on the English Language Arts portion of the California Standards Test.
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Photo courtesy of Troy Ang
Above is one of our young Thespians performing in our after school production of The Secret Garden.
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