House Empathy demonstrated teamwork today in their monthly house meeting! Peer leadership through modeling, demonstration and support. #MetropolitanArtsAcademyWPS

Level 1 learners practicing being bioluminescent fish for science in the dance studio! #MetropolitanArtsAcademyWPS

Proud of our students! 1st place in the district’s Geo Bee, 1st place in the Middle School Spelling Bee and 1st place in the Elementary Spelling Bee! 5th place in Math Counts. Thank you to their awesome coaches! #MetropolitanArtsAcademyWPS Westminster Public Schools Dr. Pamela Swanson Jeni Gotto, Ed.D.

It’s that time of the year where we start to look back at all we’ve learned! So amazed at the 9, 10, 11, and 12 year old brains that learned all this (plus so much more in literacy, science, social studies, and life)! #cbe #metropolitanartsacademywps #teacher #publiced

The 2nd year of The Shelofsky Biography Museum was a huge success! Love getting to invite families into our learning space. Everything from projects, to signage, to the music playlist was designed by students. They are seriously the best! #metropolitanartsacademywps #cbe #pbl

Today the Alpha parade visited with Westminster High School graduates who formally attended our school! It was just wonderful for our kids to experience this! #MetropolitanArtsAcademyWPS Westminster Public Schools Jeni Gotto, Ed.D. Dr. Pamela Swanson Brian Kosena

The Droplet Family visited many of Earth’s water sources! Check out some pages from their vacation photo album and learn about the distribution of water on our planet! #MetropolitanArtsAcademyWPS #cbe #pbl #projectbasedlearning

Happy First Day of School! Competency-Based from Day 1! #metropolitanartsacademywps #CBS #CBE Claudette Trujillo

Weekly certificates to recognize personal accomplishments related directly to literacy. #MetropolitanArtsAcademyWPS

Our current novel studies! #ilovediversebooks #metropolitanartsacademywps Claudette Trujillo Jennifer Delorenzo

Student agency = student of the month nominated and awarded by the students in the class with the winners. Team ovation award! #MetropolitanArtsAcademyWPS

I am/Because identity statements written and designed by my level 5 learners! Inspired by the people we’ve been reading about who made waves and positive changes in their community. Students learned to use Canva to publish their final statements. #CBE #metropolitanartsacademywps

It’s time for the Potato Olympics in Room 21! The athletes are are getting their final rest in before the competition begins! #metropolitanartsacademywps #potatoes #lastdaysofschool

Level 5 Metro Arts Biography Museum—only at Metropolitan Arts Academy! Claudette Trujillo Canva RuPaul Derek Jeter #metropolitanartsacademywps #PBL

House Achievement learned what it means to be the Greatest Of All Time! We read a book about soccer player Mia Hamm and learned that winners are winners because they never give up. #MetropolitanArtsAcademyWPS Dylan Shelofsky

What an amazing show at the Swan! Photo credit to Reva Mund! Amazing direction by Dylan Shelofsky and choreography by Jenna Gonsalves. Music direction by Zach Levenson
#MetropolitanArtsAcademyWPS Westminster Public Schools Dr. Pamela Swanson Jeni Gotto, Ed.D.

Opening night for “Annie Jr.” next week #MetropolitanArtsAcademyWPS ! So proud of our kids & directors! Jenna Gonsalves Dylan Shelofsky and our musical director Zach Levenson Westminster Public Schools Dr. Pamela Swanson Jeni Gotto, Ed.D. Brian Kosena

Metropolitan Arts Academy-a PK-8 arts innovation school in Westminster Public Schools is now accepting applications. We have a limited number of spots open for next year. Our application link is below. #MetropolitanArtsAcademyWPS Westminster Public Schools

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Our students representing us at the MathCounts Regionals! Great work Mr. Salazar! #MetropolitanArtsAcademyWPS Westminster Public Schools Jeni Gotto, Ed.D. Dr. Pamela Swanson

“Art has the role in education of helping children become like themselves instead of more like everyone else.” -Sydney Gurewitz Clemens
#MetropolitanArtsAcademyWPS Westminster Public Schools Jeni Gotto, Ed.D. Dr. Pamela Swanson Dylan Shelofsky Zach Levenson