MUSIC DEPARTMENT MISSION 
STATEMENT:
The Loch Raven Technical Academy Music Department serves as a resource for the development of musical knowledge, musical skills through performance, aesthetic exploration, attitude development, and integrative technology. Our goal is to provide the tools for the personal growth of each individual to promote music as art through self-discipline and self-expression.
LTRA Band Strings Chorus General Music Summer Assignment 2024.docx
DANCE DEPARTMENT MISSION STATEMENT:
MISSION
The mission of the dance education program is to provide quality performance-based instruction with experiences that include perception and response activities with movement, historical, social, and cultural dance forms, creative expression and production, aesthetics, and personal development for a successful lifetime.
VISION
We will have students who are artistically educated through dance, who have developed and acquired movement, observation, communication, behavioral, and thinking skills to meet the increasing challenges of life in the 21st century.
BELIEF STATEMENTS
We believe all students will learn and achieve. We believe that our vision for a student who is artistically educated in dance requires:
- a certified dance teacher in every program.
- a curriculum in dance education based on national, state, and local standards.
- adequate staffing, equipment and supplies, facilities, planning and teaching time to deliver the program.
- professional support from content specialists, curriculum development, principals, and school leaders.
- shared accountability among teachers, principals, and central office personnel.
- support from communities, parents, and teachers who recognize and understand the value of an arts and movement education in overall student achievement.
LTRA Music Summer Assignment Dance 2024.docx