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<br />resulting from successful experiences, recognition/rewards and decrease in failure. Students will <br /> <br />be better equipped to release stress and resolve problems in positive ways with peer support. <br /> <br />Goal #2: Improve student academic achievement and attendance at the target schools <br /> <br />Objective #2: Provide academic remediation and enrichment programs and services. <br /> <br />Activities and Output: <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />15 elementary and)O intermediate school students will complete a series of academic <br /> <br />activities designed to meet their individual academic achievement goals and objectives and <br /> <br />will participate a minimum of once a week for 20 weeks throughout the program period, with <br /> <br />at least two sessions comprised of 6 consecutive weeks. Lesson plans, tutoring schedules, <br /> <br />student groupings by grade and skill level, and other appropriate academic activities will be <br /> <br />developed and implemented throughout the program period incorporating Cooperative <br /> <br />Learning and Continuous Progress methods that are designed to move students to higher levels <br /> <br />of achievement once they master required learning objectives. <br /> <br />. 6 educational excursions with a minimum of)O students per excursion will be conducted for <br /> <br />program participants who reach academic achievement and attendance benchmarks by <br /> <br />established timelines as incentives for participation and rewards for achievement. <br /> <br />. The lead agency's Cultural Arts program will be expanded to provide 20 participants with) <br /> <br />eight-week art instruction classes each with a recognition event, such as a culminating <br /> <br />performance or exhibit in the visual and performing arts taught by an art professional. <br /> <br />Qutcome: The instructional methods used in the academic activities incorporate research-based <br /> <br />strategies that will result in academic achievement, with both shorHerm and long-term results. <br /> <br />Research on the benefits of arts education reveals that young people who regularly participate in <br /> <br />the arts are four times more likely to be recognized for academic achievement and three times <br /> <br />more likely to win an award for school attendance. Young artists, as compared with their peers, <br /> <br />10 <br />