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The Merge Creative Education System

This comprehensive toolkit is perfect for:
• Artists, Musicians, or Existing Arts Programs — or -
• Youth Development Programs
• Schools
• Community Centers & Groups
• Human Service Organizations

The Merge System includes a mentoring and teaching guide, curricula, a manual for program implementation, and comprehensive evaluation, assessment, and management software. Please see individual pages for additional details about:

1. Venturing Together, a guide that provides teachers, parents, and other adults with the skills they’ll need to become effective mentor teachers, including specifics on how to find and develop a student’s strengths.
a. BOOK ONE: Fanning an Inner Flame: A Case for the Effectiveness of the Creative Arts in Human Services and Education
b. BOOK TWO: Enlivening the Creative Spirit: A Strength-Based Educational and Mentoring Approach using the Creative Arts

2. Risks Worth Taking, a soup-to-nuts toolkit that guides you through each step to develop a comprehensive and effective program.
This Program Manual outlines all facets of program design and infrastructure including: needs assessment (including why it’s important); program design (specific, well ordered steps that are necessary to design a comprehensive program); student referrals, intake (the forms and processes you need to bring students into the program), teacher hiring and training, staff meetings, publicity, fundraising, grant writing, and more.

3. SETS: Student Evaluation & Tracking System, an evaluation and assessment tool even artists and program managers like using!
This comprehensive software is the first of its kind. Not only can you easily and specifically evaluate students, staff, and programs, using SETS ensures program quality through real-time oversight, and provides a high level of standardization and accountability.

4. Curricula, progressive, culture-specific arts-mentoring curricula created for the purpose of developing relationship.
The two units of the Partners in Art Series are Play by Heart (music) and Draw on Experience (visual art). We currently offer one book of each.

Also available: Consultation & Trainings, as desired, to facilitate program design and provide training for organization staff, mentor teachers, and the greater community.