The partnership between PS 24 and BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange have established a planning year that that will result in a structure for comprehensive arts education for every student and every teacher for the full school year. During the planning year, the partnerhship team will develop a clear, well thought out, fully embraced plan that encompasses the curriculum developed with BAX, and that will also coordinate other arts partners and arts specialists in the school.

PS 24, the Dual Language School for International Studies, Brooklyn, is a relatively new school in a historically immigrant community where half of the 803 students are English proficient and the other half are Spanish proficient.

Families will be involved as essential partners through a series of workshops and provide specific professional development that will assist in fostering an understanding of the value of arts learning to both students and teachers.

The goal is for all stakeholders to be able to articulate the intention and the rationale for a schoolwide arts program that is consistent. A language will be developed between teachers and teaching artists to talk about children and foster it through evaluation of their progress. A successful program will allow teachers to integrate the work into their own practice using artistic ideas, concept and process. The school will develop where the arts serve to exemplify how children take risks and guide them in that risk taking.

The planning year will be focused on seven classes and two targeted groups: General Education and Special education classes. BAX teaching artists will conduct classes in Spanish and English matching the dual language profile of the school's population.