Welcome to CAFE

GOAL:
To ensure that CAFE students are totally prepared, academically, mentally and spiritually to become the future leaders of tomorrow.

OBJECTIVES:
To ensure that CAFE students are able to pursue academic excellence by mastering the fundamentals concepts in math and science;
To develop reading, writing and comprehension skills; and
To use the performing arts to help develop fundamental skills of thinking creatively, discipline, problem solving, self-esteem and sociability.

Education Philosophy:

• The arts make learning come alive
• The arts cultivate skills and discipline
• The arts help students discover creative ways of thinking about questions and answers
• The arts strengthen academic performance
• The arts open a wide range of careers
• The arts help children understand their own as well as other cultures and times
• The Arts challenge students to think about and respond to themselves and the world of experience in many different ways.

Rationale:
The Arts - music, dance, theatre and the visual arts- are intellectual disciples of substance. Arts skills and processes, knowledge and history, can be taught and learned by all students, not just the talented. They also enhance learning for everyone across the academic spectrum and therefore are of great value for today’s students. Students who participate in arts programs are more likely to succeed and become leaders in whatever field of endeavor they choose.

© Maryland Alliance for Arts education, Inc. 1995