TISA
TEACHING IS AN ART BY RICHARD GREYWOLF
TAOS INTEGRATED SCHOOL OF THE ARTS (TISA), is a charter school partnering with parents and community, will provide K-8 students in the Taos Municipal School District with the opportunity to reach their maximum potential through a standards-based, multicultural, thematic and artsintegrated curriculum. TISA’s design is a response to the Taos community’s expressed desire for a school that brings together current national standards for education with a strong early childhood emphasis in the arts. This district mission necessitates a smaller size classroom to allow for careful fostering of communication and relating skills. Located inside the municipality, enrollment will be complete with 180 students.
tool training as well. New and old ways to access powers of observation and creativity are included in our design because the next generation’s challenging future depends upon all the intelligences: intellectual, emotional, physical. THE TAOS COMMUNITY IS RICH IN RESOURCES for art and craft mentoring, as well as traditional and/or sustainable land relationships. TISA plans to engage in direct dialogue with the attributes of this specific community, designing ways to nurture interaction for young children with service and nature. This linking approach suits the young learner and supports our commitment to the philosophy that teaching is an art.
EVERY CHILD CAN LEARN. Some THE GOAL OF AN INTEGRATED children thrive in a smaller school SCHOOL is to link diverse streams where multi-faceted creativity is of intelligence. Creative teaching emphasized. It is convenient if a methodologies will serve the child’s education is close enough commitment to meeting New to the norm that transferring to Mexico state standards and another location is reasonable. professional development while These are some of the most deliberate emphasis on love of basic, practical aspects of TISA’s learning is firmly maintained. program. Introduction to contemporary TISA is located at 123 tools like the computer will be Manzanares St., Taos. For more included as the child’s education information, call (575) 758-7755 progresses; there will be hand or go online to tisataos.org. Megan Bowers Avina From top: TISA fourth-grader Josie Leeson shows off her school hen, which she hatched in her second-grade classroom; TISA third-grader Nevaeh Valerio shows her school spirit; TISA students gather around a papier mache tree they made for Arbor Day.
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