Fueling school change through the arts.

At Turnaround Arts: California we are reimagining teaching and learning and building a coalition of schools, arts organizations, and community members using the arts to create joyful, equitable, and inclusive learning environments where all students have the opportunity to thrive and succeed. Part of a national partnership, Turnaround Arts: California is one of 9 organizations from across the nation working with the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. 

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SUPPORTERS AND PARTNERS

Together with national and local partners that strengthen the impact of our work, Turnaround Arts: California uses the arts as a tool to fuel change efforts in historically marginalized elementary and middle schools across the state. Initiated with financial support from Berta and Frank Gehry and the California Arts Council, Turnaround Arts: California is supported by the Herb Alpert Foundation, the Stuart Foundation, the California State Legislature, the Eisner Foundation, The Hearst Foundation, Facebook, Jane Fonda, the Goldhirsh Foundation, David Hockney, MasterClass, the Rosenthal Family Foundation, Elizabeth Segerstrom, the Segerstrom Family Foundation, Evan Spiegel, and Susan Steinhauser and Daniel Greenberg. Coach partners include Arts Education Connection San Diego, Collaborations: Teachers and Artists, Creative Coaching for Arts  & Equity, Every Day Arts for Special Education, P.S. ARTS, Sunset Center, The Good Word Education Consulting, Alex Karas, Sandy Seufert, and Dr. Akida Kissane Long. Collaborators include The Actors’ Gang, Beat the Odds®, Focus 5 Inc., Get Lit: Words Ignite, KID smART, Studio Pathways, and Visual Thinking Strategies.

WHERE WE WORK

Turnaround Arts: California helps connect partner schools with regional arts networks, including community arts organizations, teaching artists, arts and cultural institutions, performance venues, professional learning experts, and higher education professionals in order to build community support systems that lead to sustainable change.

Some highlights of our shared impact and reach in the recent 2021/22 school year:

During the 2022/23 school year, Turnaround Arts: California is partnering with 22 schools spread from our state’s southern border to our northern coast, with schools in urban, suburban, and rural communities. All are Title I schools with significant populations of socioeconomically disadvantaged students.

Partner Schools
School Districts
Educators Supported
Students Reached

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