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Show A-8 Wed/Thurs/Fri, February 12-14, 2014 The Park Record Puppets take Capitol Hill PCHS students take a stand PCHS anti-bullying resolution proposed to Park City Council By ALEXANDRIA GONZÁLEZ The Park Record PHOTO COURTESY OF KATHLEEN BRILEY Mrs. Bonner's second grade class at South Summit Elementary School created puppets with art educator Kathleen Briley in accordance with their current lessons covering folk tales, tall tales and fairy tales. The puppets will be taken to the Capitol on Monday, Feb. 24, to demonstrate support for the continuation of arts education program funding. South Summit teachers to demonstrate for arts is distributed to schools across Utah through state legislation. "We are just one of the schools that got this program. It's going to expand each year, and more schools will have access to and more funding for this program if we all share our voices," Briley said. "[The By ALEXANDRIA GONZÁLEZ grant] also helps us pay for The Park Record materials, which is wonderful." Monday, Feb. 24, legislaThe 2013-14 school year tors will find some unfamiliar was the first that the South visitors on the Capitol steps: Summit School District had 25 handmade puppets. South an arts education program, and Summit Elementary School it is taught in alignment with art teachers Kathleen Briley Utah Arts CORE curriculum. and Jennie Phillips along with Briley and Phillips both more than 20 other supporters have degrees in art education, of arts education will take pup- and they help teach students pets their students have made art through lessons that match to the Hill to demonstrate to the state CORE curriculum state legislators the impor- - English, language arts, scitance of continuing to fund ence, social studies and matharts programs. ematics. Briley said South Summit South Summit Elementary Elementary School is one of second-graders are covering 80 that received funding for an folk tales, tall tales and fairy arts program last year through tales, so Briley said each of the the Beverly Taylor Sorenson 125 students made their own Arts Learning program. The puppets. She, Phillips, parPCI_1314_CELTIC_PRec_Half.pdf 1 1/30/14 11:41 AM grant is available for grades ents and community members K-6 statewide, and the money will take those puppets to the Capitol to show legislators the progress they have made with the arts program and ask them to keep the funding coming. "For this grant, 100 percent of our lessons are supposed to be integrated into the CORE curriculum," Briley said. "The other model for this program is called side-by-side teaching, and we team-teach." An art teacher, either Briley or Phillips, leads the lesson, but the general education teacher stays in the classroom to help support the program. Briley said it is great to have the teachers in the room with them, which allows them to get a lot more teaching done. She added that studies show that by integrating arts into the curriculum, oftentimes it will raise test scores. South Summit has chosen to pay special attention to the math scores in the district, so a lot of the lessons are taught integrating into the math CORE curriculum. For example, Briley said she taught a lesson last week Please see Puppets, A-9 Park City High School Student Council members Adam Snyder and Sara Tabin were approached several months ago by current Summit County Councilor Roger Armstrong and former Park City Councilor Alex Butwinski with the idea of writing anti-bullying resolutions. Snyder said they decided that he and Tabin would be more in touch with any sort of bullying going on at the high school. Thursday, Feb. 6, the two students took the podium at the Park City Council meeting to ask the council to approve their resolution and sign it into a proclamation by Park City Mayor Jack Thomas. "As we were observing, asking around and trying to get a feel for what might be important to be included in our resolution, we noted at that at the high school, we don't have as much physical violence, group teasing or sort of the stereotypical types of bullying," Tabin said. However, she added that there have been incidences of "cyber bullying, insidious rumors and malicious gossip." The two juniors decided to focus on "sub-tweeting," a form of Internet bullying when a person uses Twitter to send out a tweet that insults, spreads a rumor or teases another person without mentioning them by name but is clearly about someone in particular. Snyder introduced a short video that he and Tabin created to highlight all forms of bullying, which they showed to the PCHS student body just before they were released for winter break. The video received applause from both the council and meeting attendees. Tabin and Snyder then read the resolution, which included the definition of bullying as "a form of aggressive behavior, including, but not limited to, physical bullying, cyber bullying, social exclusion, malicious hearsay, passive aggression, harassment for sexual orientation or gender identification and victimization due to one's race, socioeconomic status or ethnicity." They received a standing ovation from all present, and the council unanimously approved the measure. Afterwards, Mayor Thomas signed it and read the proclamation. ALEXANDRIA GONZÁLEZ/PARK RECORD Park City High School juniors and Student Council members Sara Tabin and Adam Snyder present an anti-bullying resolution at a Park City Council meeting on Thursday, Feb. 6. A gloriously entertaining and genuine Celtic show. CELTIC NIGHTS February 15, 2014 Show starts at 7:30PM Tickets from $20 Six of Ireland's most accomplished dancers join forces with six of the Emerald Isle's finest voices SPONSORED BY Debra & John Darrah in a gloriously entertaining and genuine Celtic show. Traditional favorites, "Danny Boy" and "Whiskey in the Jar," accompany jigs, reels and hornpipes. Thundering step dancing feet and sweet ballads intertwine in a lively and glorious production. 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