Let the Stage Minimize the Rage and Cage: Innovation Through Fine Arts to Reduce Violence, Truancy, and Delinquency in Youth

This relevant, innovative, high-octane, extremely interactive session will illustrate how advocates for youth can utilize the fine arts—primarily speech, spoken word, theatre, and music—to increase attendance, student ambition, and achievement, while minimizing violence and bullying, truancy, delinquency, and low expectations. Furthermore, this session will give tangible tools on how to create a role for each pupil to excel, whether through writing, speaking, performing, graphic arts, or social media. Moreover, this session will be a “slice of life” for conflict resolution, leadership, college- and career-readiness, and lifelong learning