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Governor's School named Exemplary School

The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities was designated one of three Exemplary School by the Arts Schools Network. This designation recognizes a school’s commitment to the highest quality instruction in arts education.

The designation is presented to Arts Schools Network member schools meeting the Network’s Principles of Exemplary Practice in strategically evaluating its purpose. operations, and educational programs. Each selected school completed a self-evaluation which included: strengths, areas for improvement, consistency with school-wide or program purposes, questions, new aspirations, and the future. Governor’s School president Dr. Bruce Halverson stated, “Each day our commitment is to excellence, and we are proud that our efforts have been recognized nationally by this prestigious organization.”

The South Carolina Governor’s School for the Arts and Humanities, located in Greenville, South Carolina, is a public residential high school for the state’s emerging artists. The school gives artistically talented high school students from across the state the opportunity to study their art in a supportive environment of artistic and academic excellence. Students concentrate in Creative Writing, Dance, Drama, Vocal or Instrumental Music, or Visual Arts. The nine-month residential high school program is designed as a master-apprentice community. The arts faculty are practicing artists as well as educators in their area of art expertise. In addition to rigorous pre-professional arts training, students receive an intense and innovative academic education that fosters connections to the arts while meeting all requirements necessary for a South Carolina high school diploma. Indeed, 107 graduates in the Class of 2010 received upwards of $17 million in scholarship offers to national, regional, and local college, university, and conservatory programs. Additional information about the school and its residential summer and high school programs is available at www.scgsah.org.

The Arts Schools Network is a community of schools and institutions dedicated to education in and through the arts. Their mission is to provide the leadership necessary to inspire and maintain excellence in arts education by supporting and serving leaders of specialized arts schools, arts integration schools, and new schools of the arts across the country. Arts Schools Network impacts more than 60,000 students; 1,700 arts-focused schools; arts organizations and arts education leaders; 74300 arts school administrators, teachers, and counselors; and 743,000 alums of member schools – a number that grows by more than 48,000 each year. For more information bout the Arts Schools Network, check their website at www.artschoolsnetwork.org.

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