Leon County Schools ESE Support Services
Susan Barnes
526 N. Appleyard Dr, Academic Resource Center
Tallahassee, FL 32304
(850) 487-1958
barness@mail.leon.k12.fl.us

Artist in Residence - "Artists in the Schools"
"Artists in the Schools" is an instructional program that enables educators to create meaningful learning experiences for children utilizing all of the arts - visual arts, creative movement, creative drama, and music. The program assists children with disabilities in exploring activities commonly taught in their school programs through the arts and capitalizes on the inherently motivating nature of artis activities to engage children in exploring, creating meaning, and expressing their ideas. The program draws the members of the community into the classroom to provide these special arts activities.

Mini Grants

Artist in Residence
The art therapy anger management project has been successful for three years in elementary schools and last year at Second Chance School. Second Chance is an alternative school in Leon County for students who have been expelled from their regular schools.
The groups focused on anger management and provided a variety of learning experiences. Art therapy helped the students express anger appropriately, develop strategies for handling anger and identifying personal strengths to help make better choices.

Professional Development

Performance/Exhibition
Family conference at Belle Vue Middle School, all-day event with art show.

Leon Regional Juvenile Detention Center
Lee Isbell
(Assistant Superintendent)
2303 Ron Ellis Drive
Tallahassee, FL 32303
850-488-7672
lee.isbell@djj.state.fl.us

Everhart Trainable Center
Jeannie Barrett
2750 Mission Road
Tallahassee, FL 33801
(850) 488-5787

Arts for All is a unique program, created by Dwayne Szot, featuring adaptive art tools so that individuals with disabilities can create their own individual works of art.