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SUAVE
(Socios Unidos para Artes Via Educacion—United Community for Arts Education)
Since 1994, SUAVE was a leader in the realm of professional development, matching professional artists (art coaches) with teachers to implement arts education, both as core curriculum and as a vehicle for teaching other subjects. SUAVE also had a long history of documented success in teaching diverse student bodies, including English Language Learners and low income and “at-risk” youth.
The recipient of a Federal DOE Model Arts Grant, numerous California Arts Council and California DOE grants, and research grants from the Spencer and MacArthur Foundations, SUAVE exemplified Center ARTES’ innovative and effective programming.
Please visit our Curriculum Archives for extensive examples of lesson plans created by teachers in collaboration with SUAVE arts coaches.
Arts Curriculum Archives
- "Flowers" Georgia O’Keeffe
- "Fraction-Action Colonial Style"
- "Who’s the Most Important" Play and Costume
- Animal Division Game
- Art From The Inside Out
- Cell Poems
- Colonial Mural
- Coordinate Geometry
- Food Group Pyramid
- Knitting
- Math Literature Plays - "Math Menagerie"
- My Very Own Octopus
- Native American Villages Mural
- Photograph Exploration and Writing
- Positive Black Americans (Biography & Mural)
- Renaissance Period
- Spring Mural
- Where the Wild Things Are
Math Curriculum Archives
- "Fraction-Action Colonial Style"
- Animal Division Game
- Coordinate Geometry
- Drawing from the Inside Out
- Knitting
- Math Literature Plays - "Math Menagerie"
- My Very Own Octopus
- Spring Mural
- Stained Glass Ornaments
Language Curriculum Archives
- Autobiographical Poster - illustrating essay on a significant gift given or received
- Cell Poems
- Colonial Mural
- Dog poems
- Drawing from the Inside Out
- Food Group Pyramid
- Geometric Watercolor
- Knitting
- Math Literature Plays - "Math Menagerie"
- Mr. Quiet’s Book of Patterns
- My Very Own Octopus
- Ocean Mother
- Photograph Exploration and Writing
- Pictospells
- Positive Black Americans (Biography & Mural)
- Zomo the Rabbit, A Trickster Tale from West Africa
Science Curriculum Archives
- "Flowers" Georgia O’Keeffe
- "Who’s the Most Important" Play and Costume
- Animal Division Game
- Cell Poems
- Food Group Pyramid
- My Very Own Octopus
- Renaissance Period
- Spring Mural
- Sunflowers
- Sunflowers(2)