Sandia Prep - 532 Magazine - Summer/Fall 2018

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532osuna road is published by Sandia Preparatory School, an independent co-ed school with a nationally recognized college preparatory program for students in grades 6 through 12. Bill Sinfield - Head of School Cheryl McMillan - Head of Upper School Susi Hochrein - Head of Middle School Scott Jeffries - Dean of Students Julie Cook - Director of Development Jenny Davidson - Director of Information Technology Laura Fitzpatrick - Director of Admission Melissa Morse - Director of College Counseling Melissa Jo Stroud - Director of Marketing & Communications Managing Editor - Melissa Jo Stroud Designer/Contributor - Alexis Magaña-Jaggli Contributors: Julie Cook Willie Owens Susan Walton ’72 Sandia Preparatory School 532 Osuna Rd NE, Albuquerque, NM 87113 505.338.3000 phone • 505.338.3099 fax sandiaprep.org • info@sandiaprep.org 3 532 • Summer/Fall 2018 the new magazine. I want to hear about...I find the new sections...Can you have a SOCIAL f place for...Where is Prep Post? The Tphotos are great. I get to stay in touch with SCENE fellow alumni. The students are Ydoing such amazing things at Prep We You love hearing should from the Prep write community a on story social media. about... Proud Follow to our official be accounts a Sundevil. to see daily life as Go a Sundevil. Unicorns! @sandiaprep Go Lions! Celebrating the Five A's of Sandia Preparatory School. Academics, Athletics, Arts, Activities, and Atmosphere. The joy of learning and living is at the center of all we do. Sandia Preparatory School provides remarkable opportunities for intellectual and personal growth within a challenging and balanced program. As an extension of our families, T o provide remarkable opportunities for personal growth, and to cultivate each student's passions, talents, creativity and intellectual development, Sandia Our Five A's converge to form an integrated whole, reflecting the comprehensive, well-rounded education that Sandia Prep students receive. 10 Things We Believe: Educating is not a job; it is a calling. Education is about the students. Their needs always come first. The measure of our success is how we treat our most challenged student on his or her most challenging day. Prep seeks to create balance among the Five A's: Academics, Athletics, Arts, Atmosphere, and Activities. sandiaprep Sandia Preparatory School 86 likes sandiaprep On their first day of school, our newest Sundevils will find out if they are a Lion or a Unicorn. View 5 comments AUGUST 11
FROM THE Head of School The original edition of this article was published in 2011 when I was the Headmaster of St. Croix Country Day School. It was written after our Art Building burned to the ground, and we were beginning a campaign to rebuild a better space. I believe, though, that the content is relevant, so I have made some revisions and offer it now to you. Art for Our Sake Do you recall the first piece of art that you ever created? I remember mine. I was in Mrs. Boychuck’s kindergarten glass, and we were making “tear-art.” I don’t know if that is what it was really called, but it involved tearing pieces of different colored construction paper and gluing them on a white background, to make a picture. Most of the kids in my class were making outdoor scenes of mountains and lakes and trees. Not me! I made a picture of a bird – a robin redbreast, to be exact. Admittedly, it was in the minimalist style, and the bird was flying in a vast white-paper sky. But what made my picture special was that it was three-dimensional. Yes, I was way ahead of my time. I had folded a tab on the inside part of the wing and glued that tab to the body of the bird, so that the wing (a really beautiful wing) actually flapped. Genius, right? My teacher was so impressed that she held my picture up at the front of the class as example of kindergarten creativity. I confess, “The Bird” was the apex of my success as a visual artist. However, my enthusiasm for attending art class never diminished. The fact is that the products of my efforts in class were not nearly as important as the process I learned and exercised in creating those products. It is an unfortunate truth that the place of art instruction as an essential core program in our schools has often been called into question. This is also true of music, theater, and athletics. It was especially true during the better part of the last century, when the function of education was to prepare young people to find their place in an industrial economy, that art instruction was viewed as “nice, but not necessary.” Fortunately, over the past several decades, there has been a growing body of enlightened research that suggests that instruction in the arts is an essential part of a healthy school curriculum. In his bestselling book, A Whole New Mind, Daniel Pink argues that the schools must give greater attention to developing the creative, intuitive, conceptual skills of students in order to prepare them for a new global economy. Pink contends that while the left-brain aptitudes that involve logical, linear, and algorithmic thinking continue to be necessary, they are no longer sufficient. Instead, the aptitudes characteristic of the right-brain – artistry, empathy, inventiveness, big-picture thinking – are now the ones that matter most. A major premise that Pink used to support his argument is that those left-brain competencies, those analytical proficiencies, are now being automated and outsourced, and that our North American economy will reward those who create, rather than those who memorize. I’d like to suggest two other imperatives for teaching the arts in our schools. The first is that when students are engaged in the study of the arts and the process of creating, they are at greater liberty to take risks and make mistakes. This is an essential part of learning. The arts, and I include the visual arts, theater, and music, are an essential component in a curriculum that develops in children the confidence to fail. Finally, exposing children to the creative process, whether this means enlightening them with the works of the Renaissance Masters or giving them the chance to make a bird out of torn pieces of construction paper, is an indispensable component of any school curriculum that aims to develop mature critical and creative thinking skills. Support of the arts programs in schools is vital to the task of preparing our children for the 21st century. - Bill Sinfield, Head of School 532 • Summer/Fall 2018 4
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