Are School Arts A Luxury?

What do you think?

Do all children, in all neighborhoods, deserve equal access to the arts from the day they start school?

We’re sending a big shout out to Dream A World Education donors and funders who said yes and kept Secrets of the Heart® classroom arts programs going strong throughout the 2023-2024 school year. As we celebrate the successes of the last school year and prepare for reaching more children in the 2024-2025, we want to remind you that every 2024 Back to School donation, including your donation today, goes toward keeping music, dance, drumming and other arts experiences in under-resourced public schools from California to Nigeria. Schools rely on community-based organizations to fill the arts education gap, and since 2008, Dream A World Education donors and funders have delivered!

This school year, Secrets of the Heart® continues to deliver sequential programming for partner schools with web-based and hybrid programs, One World Drum Circles and Dance in America.

(If you live in California, you may be asking, “What about the Proposition 28 voter-approved funding for school arts and music?” The reality is that limitations imposed by Proposition 28 restrict rather than increase under-resourced schools’ access to community-based arts organizations like Dream A World Education.)

Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo, New Mexico

“Secrets” in the Tewa Language

Ohkay Owingeh: The place of the strong people. “At Ohkay Owingeh Head Start & Pre-K they believe the chief priority is student learning and all students can learn to their fullest potential. By creating a caring, nurturing, and optimum learning environment, students are developing culturally, socially, emotionally, cognitively and physically. Teachers, administrators, families, and community promote high standards, expectations, and share in advancing the school’s mission.”

On September 2, children in the Ohkay Owingeh Head Start and Pre-K classes will learn…read more

In Memoriam

Board Member Barbara L. Seidman

We honor the memory of Barbara Seidman who passed away on July 18, 2024. In addition to her dedicated service as a member of DAWE’s board of directors, Barbara was an on-campus volunteer at Selma Avenue Elementary and Juan Cabrillo Elementary schools. A retired para-legal, Barbara was devoted to the betterment of children’s lives.