Ratifies up to $4,000 for a guest artist to coach Skyline High performing arts students

An individual contractor from Los Angeles will work virtually with Skyline High School performing arts students. Students research history through archives and create solo performance pieces, with feedback and coaching on revisions and rehearsals. The period is April 20 through June 30, 2021, capped at $4,000. The Board is approving this after the work began.

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Vendor / partner: Individual contractor
Action: New agreement
Category: Classroom & academic programs
Term: Apr 20, 2021 – Jun 30, 2021
This vote: $4,000
Schools: Skyline High School
Funding: Vocational & Applied Secondary & Adult
Resource / site: 3550-912
Vendor no.: 007072
Presented by: Chief Academic Officer
File: 21-1114 · agenda V.-36
Outcome: Adopted on the General Consent Report, May 26, 2021

Official text

Ratification by the Board of Education of a Professional Services Agreement 2020-2021 between the District and Roger Smith, Los Angeles, CA, for the latter to work virtually with students to build community to create a safe space and to build trust in class for students to research and perform history through archival materials of their own choosing to create a solo work of art that engages the social past, present and future informed by collaborative ensemble critique, as well as a committed rehearsal process in “lifting the work off the page” through improvisational impulse and “breathing in the moment” and to provide feedback and coaching for revisions, rehearsals, and page to stage performance for Performing Art students at Skyline High School, via the Linked Learning Department, for the period of April 20, 2021 through June 30, 2021, in an amount not to exceed $4,000.00.

History

May 26, 2021 Adopted on the General Consent Report

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