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The Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts (also known as SOTA) is a public arts high school in San Francisco, California, United States, which offers students an alternative college preparatory experience: a full academic curriculum complemented by a pre-professional arts training program in which students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills. The creative community at SOTA is a socioeconomically and ethnically diverse population, representative of the celebrated diversity of San Francisco. The Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts is the only San Francisco public high school with an audition process for admission. Prospective students can choose to apply to one of nine disciplines: Creative Writing, Dance, Instrumental Music (Band, Guitar, Orchestra, World Music), Media, Piano, Technical Theatre, Theatre, Visual, and Vocal (Classical Voice, Musical Theatre). Students receive academic instruction in the morning and spend the balance of the day immersed in learning the essential skills and craft of their chosen area of creative study. The department directors have created an inspiring hands-on program that draws on the talents of over 66 Artists-in-Residence working in the broader arts community, recruited to support specific goals of each department’s curriculum. This unique teaching structure exposes students to fresh ideas and experiences, creating a learning environment where vision, creativity and passion are valued in the formation of the whole person. SOTA ranks among the top public high schools in the district. Among the graduates pursuing higher education, 90% attend traditional colleges and universities; the remaining 10% choose to matriculate to art schools and conservatories. A number of SOTA alumni have gone on to attend the Juilliard School, Rhode Island School of Design, the Curtis School of Music, the Colburn School, Art Center College of Design, and numerous esteemed institutions for higher learning in the arts. In 2010, the school was renamed the Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts in honor of Ruth Asawa.〔Jill Tucker; (" S.F. school board votes to send pink out slips ). San Francisco Chronicle; February 24, 2010.〕 In 2011, the school was recognized as a "California Distinguished School" by the California Department of Education as one of the state's most "exemplary and inspiring" public schools, demonstrating significant gains in narrowing the achievement gap among its students.〔http://www.cde.ca.gov/ta/sr/cs/disting2011.asp〕 Many programs that now benefit students across the Bay Area were launched at this school and continue to serve students throughout the entire Bay Area: Art and Film for Teenagers and Engineers Alliance for the Arts. The Ruth Asawa School of the Arts has an active PTSA. The Friends of SOTA Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization which manages the arts budgets and actively fundraises and provides support for the artists-in-residence and other programs, materials and equipment needed for the nine arts disciplines. The community is invited to attend school events - all are listed at sfsota.org. The school website sfsota.org lists recent news items and all upcoming performances and events. The school Facebook page is: Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts The school Twitter feed is: @ Ruth_Asawa_SOTA == History == At its inception in 1982, SOTA was part of the J. Eugene McAteer High School on its present site on Portola Drive. For many years, Ruth Asawa and others campaigned to start a public high school in San Francisco devoted to the arts, with the ultimate goal to move to the arts corridor in the heart of San Francisco's Civic Center. In 1992, the school moved to a former elementary school at 700 Font Boulevard near San Francisco State University. In 2002, McAteer High School was dissolved, and SOTA was offered the site. The school community elected to make this an interim move, and in 2005 a new school, the Academy of Arts and Sciences, was founded on the McAteer campus. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ruth Asawa San Francisco School of the Arts」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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