Creative Arts Studio | Application Preview
Creative Arts Studio is applying for government grants to extend its fine arts education program to an additional 160 families, impacting 380 current students across four facilities in the Pharr and Hidalgo region. The program aims to serve underserved populations by offering classes in music, dance, and theater while encouraging community collaboration through performances.
The business is currently in its third development stage, CAS 3.0, which focuses on three main areas: standardizing processes across all facilities, implementing a co-intentional pedagogy where teachers and students learn from one another, and guiding students through an eight-level growth framework. This structured approach is designed to be replicable and scalable, creating consistent educational experiences across all locations.
Approval of funding is justified by the studio's innovative teaching methods and successful track record, having served hundreds of students over nine years without viewing other local institutions, such as the School of Rock and Music Academy, as direct competition. Instead, they focus on attracting potential students who have not yet engaged with fine arts education.
Creative Arts Studio's competitive edge lies in its unique Dream Builder Model, which integrates fine arts with essential educational standards and project-based learning. This holistic educational approach not only nurtures students' diverse intelligences but also offers them opportunities to demonstrate their skills to the wider community, enhancing cultural awareness and engagement.
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General Information
Business Registration Number: ToGive International
Location: Hidalgo, TX, United States
Length of Operation: 6-10
Number of Employees: 11-25 Employees
Annual Gross Income: $500k to $1M
Annual Gross Expense: $500k to $1M
Open to Loans: NO
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Funding Usage
We are currently providing fine arts in education to 380 students in the region. We seek to expand our services to 160 more families in our 4 facilities. We will recieve students from 8 different cities. We target underserved student populations within Pharr & Hidalgo through a practice-proven Fine Arts in Education program that exposes students to music, dance, & theater education with the greater purpose of empowering individuals to collaborate and give back to their communities through performances. The importance of this project relies on the fact that otherwise this yout wouldn't have the opportunity to grow through fine arts.
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Business Plan
We are currently under our third stage of development, what we call "CAS 3.0" Inspiring talents for community development. The plan is based fundamentally in three axis: 1. Process Standardization, 2. Co-Intentional Pedagogy Implementation, 3. Student growth through CAS 8 values or levels. 1. Every administrative, and educational process must have a standardize process backed up with paper work trail and follow ups. All processes implemented in one school are implemented in the other 3 schools. The aim is to standardize our processes to the point we can replicate them and potentially grow them. 2. Implement the same pedagogy throughout all classes. Where the teacher become the teacher-student, and the student becomes the student-teacher/ Learning peer to peer instruction, dialogue, ensemble building, team building and performance aspects. 3. Our 8 values our "super-powers" will serve as guiding points to implement levels throughout all of our studios, providing our clientele a path of growth for their children and youth, that consist of 8 (Semester) levels, or 4 years of instruction. Because of our revolutionize and innovative pedagogy that has potential to be implemented in at a greater scale. Our proven methodology shows in the hundreds of students that have been studying with us.
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Self Identified Competition
In the 9 years in operation we have never consider ourselves having competition. Not because we don't have good schools in the same market, but because we focus on all the potential clients out there that have not take n fine arts in education classes. This approach had allowed us to grow every year. If I have to mention any schools in the community, we have: "School of Rock", "Crescendo", "Music Academy". Creative Arts Studio Academy’s Dream Builder Model highlights the interconnectedness of Fine Arts in Education, Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, Co-Intentional Pedagogy, and Project Based Learning to holistically engage a student’s potential multiple intelligences with ample opportunity to succeed and showcase these success to their community through public demonstration and exhibition, furthering the greater communities understanding of engagement and development through culture. This makes our school a very unique option in our community.
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