Challenge Success - VAPA

How Can You Help in the Arts?

Challenge Success

  • Celebrate your student’s successes at current level of artistry, and discuss “next steps” for individual growth
  • Look for ways to transfer the Arts to the world around them
  • Acknowledge and support your student’s creative risk taking
  • Ask your student to share their art with you – finished or not
    • Discuss their inspiration and what they are trying to express
    • Attend Performances and Exhibitions
  • Take part in Challenge Success (https://northwoodhigh.iusd.org/students/challenge-success)
  • Emphasize the NHS core values:
    • Compassion
    • Integrity
    • Mutual Respect
  • Creativity takes time – it cannot be rushed
    • One cannot “cram” for Art
    • Embrace the Artistic Process
    • Celebrate the artistic and personal GROWTH, not just the end PRODUCT
  • Help your student make a plan to break projects up into manageable pieces
  • As in sports, a little practice every day is FAR more effective than a marathon practice session right before a deadline
  • Encourage your child to seek help during tutorial when needed
  • Advocate personal responsibility
  • Promote honesty and integrity