Conservatory Events of 2024 – 2025

What We Accomplished – Community Partners

The Florida Orchestra - String Specialist Luz Velasquez provides advanced string sessions with our level 2 orchestra students. Spring AI project, storyboard development and String Soundtracks.

Safety Harbor Art and Music Center (Heather Richardson) - Installation of our Aquatic-themed mosaic.

Artist in Residence (AIR program) Kuniko Yamamoto - Week-long residency working with 3rd and 4th grade students.  Arts integration project using Origami to teach Geometry and Fractions.  Sean Layne - Arts Integrated residency to teach the power of retelling stories using Tiny Toy Tales (Theater and English Language Arts).

State Visual Arts Award Winner - Arianna Davis (Gr. 3)

Mahaffey Theater (Katrina Young) – Class Acts Program provides live theater experiences for our students that connect with many ELA benchmarks.

Focus 5 – Spearheading our school-wide initiative to become an arts-integrated school, focusing on the theater with Acting Right strategies.  Richardson trained with the creator of Acting Right in Washington D.C. in the summer of 2023.

Clearwater Jazz Education Outreach – Steve Weinberger chose our school to pilot the My Journey in Jazz program.  2024–25 marks the completion of 4 years with an expansion in the 24-25 years to include 5th grade for a reinforcement of jazz history and a special program for 2nd and 3rd grade students in the spring of 2025.

Authors in Residence:

• Sophia Gholz - (2024 - zoom session)