From Deseret News archives:
Gift to help BYU promote the arts
In pursuit of that dream, she and her family, through the Sorenson Legacy Foundation, recently made a $4.5 million donation to Brigham Young University's Arts Reaching and Teaching in Schools (ARTS) Partnership. The endowment is one of a series of gifts the foundation has made to Utah universities to support the enhancement of arts education in elementary schools.
"The arts are really important in an overall well-balanced education," said Jim Sorenson, a member of the board of directors for the Salt Lake-based nonprofit organization. "When you integrate them into the core subjects, test scores improve, classroom behavior is better, participation increases and absenteeism decreases."
BYU plans to use the money to enhance an existing program that provides arts training for teachers and future teachers. Beverley Taylor Sorenson was influential in the conception of the nearly two-year-old project and has already donated $1.5 million to the cause, said Robert Young, dean of the David O. McKay School of Education at BYU.
Through the BYU ARTS Partnership, students studying visual arts, dance, music and theater are paired with elementary school teachers for an internship. The university works with five school districts: Alpine, Jordan, Nebo, Provo and Wasatch.
The BYU interns share their artistic expertise with the teachers. The teachers share their teaching expertise with the interns.
"The teachers and BYU students work together side by side so they can learn from each other, building on each other's strengths," said Cally Flox, program director for the BYU ARTS Partnership.
The result, Flox said, is an art-enriched curriculum that "brings things to life" for the children.
Ashley Hansen Leonard, a 24-year-old dance education major at BYU, worked with a schoolteacher at Midas Elementary in Riverton to teach children self-expression through movement. The two incorporated simple math and human anatomy into the twice-weekly dance lessons.
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