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Santa Ana Umffied School District <br />r <br />Stefanie P. Phillips, <br />rGSuperintendent of SchoUff <br />May 2, 2018 <br />Hiba Shublak <br />Executive Director/Founder <br />Active Learning/ALBI <br />On behalf of Santa Ana Unified School District, we are happy to lend our support to the Active Learning's <br />pursuit of the City of Santa Ana — Investing in the Artist Grant opportunity to provided arts enrichment for <br />youth during the summer. <br />Our mission is fostering socially conscious artist scholars with the skills to adapt and thrive in an ever- <br />changing world. This is accomplished when our students have the opportunity to have real-world <br />connections and intersections with our community, especially in the arts. The opportunity to work <br />collaboratively with artist mentors to find expressive outlets, connections and community engagement is <br />very important to the development of the whole child. <br />Santa Ana Unified has enjoyed a thriving partnership with Active Learning who provides many educational <br />and experiential learning In the context of our community. The impact of the partnership includes 1.)Helping <br />students build community through the arts; 2.) exposing students to the arts in real-life settings and giving <br />them access to local artists in the community 3.) emphasizing the value of art and art education and the <br />viability as related to the creative economy and the economic impact of the arts thereon, and d.) cultivating <br />engaged young artists to develop their own expressive voices. <br />We recognize that our students have the opportunity to fuel the creative economy with one in 10 jobs being <br />directly connected, and new jobs emerging that are not yet developed. We need to prepare our students to <br />step into this important pipeline and can only do so through our critical partnerships with our community <br />partners including Active Learning. As an arts equity district, SAUSD Is willing to support equitable access to <br />high quality arts education. <br />We support Active Learning's grant proposal and are excited to continue to work together as we build new <br />programs, providing meaningful opportunities for our SAUSD students. <br />Thant qu for your consideration, <br />'Rcl y MtacNair <br />Visual and Performing Arts Specialist <br />Santa Ana Unified School District <br />1601 least Chestnut Avenue, Santa Ana, CA 92701.6322 (714) 558-5501 <br />BOARD OF EIDC7MICAN <br />Valerie Amozeun,President • Riga Rodriguez, Ph.b., View President <br />Alronso Alvarez, Cd.U., Clerk - Cecilia "Cert' Iglesias, Member - John Palacio, Member <br />