Community Partnerships Art partnerships at Groveland connect children to the community. Groveland achieves a unique balance by combining a small learning community feel with all the opportunities available in a large urban school. Small class sizes promote personal relationships between children and with their teachers, a key factor to student success. At the same time, partnerships with local universities, community organizations, and parents enable us to offer a broad selection of rich experiences and choices usually available only to only to larger schools. For example, our students enjoy art and theater residencies, visits with professional musicians and artists, and field trips to nature centers, art collections, music performances and more. When it comes to second language classes, we hire native speakers from Spain, South America, and France to teach not only language, but cultural appreciation as well. The Students explore geometric patterns called tessellations balance achieved between small community feel and large school offerings is one of Groveland’s proudest achievements. Here are a few of the community partners with whom Groveland works to enhance student learning: • St. Paul Chamber Orchestra • Ordway Theater for the Performing Arts • Belwin Nature Center • Northern Clay Center • Stepping Stone Theater and other theater residencies • Walker Arts Center • Minneapolis Institute of Arts • YMCA Camp Widjiwagan each autumn, our 5th grade classes have an opportunity to travel to the Boundary Waters to enjoy this unique environmental science program for four days. • Macalester College • University of St. Thomas • College of St. Catherine • University of Minnesota