ALTO: Active Learning Through Opera

The mission of ALTO is to bring the creative process into every classroom by providing arts-integrated residencies for children of all ages.

Arts integration is an approach to teaching in which students construct and demonstrate understanding through an art form. Since opera includes all the art forms, ALTO teaching artists give students creative tools in Dance, Theater, Music, Poetry, Visual Arts, or Media Arts. Students then engage in a creative process that meets evolving objectives in both an art form and a connected curriculum area.

Since 2010, ALTO teaching artists have led over 500 arts integrated multi-session residencies in the Santa Fe Public Schools. Through generous funding from our donors, we are able to offer residencies to teachers at no charge. We invite interested teachers to apply after visiting the catalog listing here. Teachers who would like to host a residency will find instructions on the linked Teacher Information Sheet.

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