{"id":91,"date":"2014-01-09T15:32:43","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T15:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:38:42","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:38:42","slug":"associated-arts","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/?page_id=91","title":{"rendered":"Associated Arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div   data-size='entry_with_sidebar'  data-lightbox_size='large'  data-animation='slide'  data-conditional_play=''  data-ids='46620'  data-video_counter='0'  data-autoplay='false'  data-bg_slider='false'  data-slide_height=''  data-handle='av_slideshow'  data-interval='5'  data-class=' avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first  '  data-el_id=''  data-css_id=''  data-scroll_down=''  data-control_layout='av-control-default'  data-custom_markup=''  data-perma_caption=''  data-autoplay_stopper=''  data-image_attachment=''  data-min_height='0px'  data-lazy_loading='disabled'  data-default-height='37.988165680473'  class='avia-slideshow avia-slideshow-1  av-control-default av-default-height-applied avia-slideshow-entry_with_sidebar av_slideshow  avia-builder-el-0  el_before_av_textblock  avia-builder-el-first   avia-slide-slider '  itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\" ><ul class='avia-slideshow-inner ' style='padding-bottom: 37.988165680473%;' ><li  class=' av-single-slide slide-1 ' ><div data-rel='slideshow-1' class='avia-slide-wrap '   ><div class=\"avia-caption av-slideshow-caption\"><div class=\"avia-inner-caption\"><h2  class='avia-caption-title  '  itemprop=\"name\" >Associated Arts<\/h2><\/div><\/div><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-46620 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-46620\"  src=\"https:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/band-845x321.jpg\" width=\"845\" height=\"321\" title='band' alt=''  itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\"   \/><\/div><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n<section class=\"av_textblock_section \"  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/CreativeWork\" ><div class='avia_textblock  '   itemprop=\"text\" ><p><strong>Physical Education<\/strong><br \/>\nThe students will work on cooperative activities with group problem solving in order to promote personal and social responsibility and relate them to real life experiences. Students will get to experience a wide range of non-traditional activities such as Geo-Caching and Rock Climbing in order to education them on the variety of ways to live a physically active and healthy lifestyle, as well as some traditional activities in order to develop motor skills. The physical education program also provides lessons on nutrition and health as well as some anatomy so students can be healthy, lifelong, educated movers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Media Arts<\/strong><br \/>\nEach year in Media Arts, students will explore the various methods that are used today to share messages and ideas with a mass audience. Computer use is essential to this course, so students are expected to be responsible with technology.\u00a0\u00a0Units are designed around introducing students to and preparing them for possible careers in computer technology. \u00a0Topics of study include: keyboarding, graphic design, web design, publication, 3d modeling, advertising, programming, data management, and game design.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music<br \/>\n<\/strong>\u201cIf you cannot teach me to fly &#8211; teach me to sing\u201d James Barrie ( Peter Pan )<br \/>\n\u201cMusic can change the world because it can change people\u201d Bono ( U2 )<\/p>\n<p>In one form or another, every student deserves to experience a music education. It has been proven through numerous government and university studies that music enhances a student, not only socially, but physically, and academically&#8230;across-the-board. Music students learn how to perform as individuals as well as part of unit, developing individual skills while at the same time creating harmony and synergy, and while having fun!<\/p>\n<p>At 21st Century Public Academy, our students experience music in a decidedly non-traditional way. We are one of few schools in New Mexico that offer a comprehensive curriculum in \u201cModern Band\u201d or popular music. Rather than the traditional school offerings of concert band, orchestra, or chorus, our students learn through producing and performing in the popular genres of rock, pop, folk, country, R&#038;B, and blues. From classic to contemporary, if it\u2019s on the radio, record, CD, or online&#8230;we can do it! While learning to perform on guitar, bass, piano\/keyboards, drums, and vocals, our students are immersed, from day one, in the process of producing and performing popular music in the context of a working band. Every student even has access to their own online digital production studio to start creating and composing with high end digital tools at their disposal right on their computer.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome to music at 21st Century Pubic Academy. Let\u2019s rock, Dragons!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Drama<br \/>\n<\/strong>Drama is a class where students will learn about the history of theater and stage productions, while taking a peak into the history of playwriting and some of the greatest performances over time. Students will also learn the fundamentals of performing, managing, and directing a stage production, as well as reading, writing, and acting out scripts.<\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Drama is a course that allows students (those who are outgoing, but even those who may not be) to express themselves creatively and freely. Drama is also a great way for students to practice understanding for other perspectives and ideas. This unique position to portray the emotions, personality, and life of a character can provide students an opportunity to practice empathy\u00a0of individual experiences outside of their own. Drama can be a way for students to grow socially and personally as they learn to step into the shoes of someone else\u2019s point of view.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;Theatre is like a gym for empathy. It&#8217;s where we can go to\u00a0build up the muscles of compassion, to practice listening\u00a0and understanding and engaging with people that are not just like ourselves. We practice sitting down, paying attention and learning from other people&#8217;s actions. We practice caring.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n~ Bill English,\u00a0San Francisco Playhouse<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<\/div><\/section>\n<div  style='padding-bottom:10px; ' class='av-special-heading av-special-heading-h2    avia-builder-el-2  el_after_av_textblock  el_before_av_one_third  '><h2 class='av-special-heading-tag '  itemprop=\"headline\"  >Associated Arts Faculty<\/h2><div class='special-heading-border'><div class='special-heading-inner-border' ><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class='flex_column_table av-equal-height-column-flextable -flextable' ><div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_table_cell av-equal-height-column av-align-top av-zero-column-padding first  avia-builder-el-3  el_after_av_heading  el_before_av_one_third  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section  class='avia-team-member   avia-builder-el-4  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class='team-img-container'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class='wp-image-7212 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-7212 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"http:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/audra-baca.jpg\" alt='Audra Baca'  itemprop=\"image\"  \/><div class='team-social'><div class='team-social-inner'><span class='hidden av_member_url_markup '  itemprop=\"email\" >mailto:abaca@21stcenturypa.com<\/span><a rel='v:url' data-avia-tooltip=\"abaca@21stcenturypa.com\"  class=' avia-team-icon ' href='mailto:abaca@21stcenturypa.com' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue805' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name'    itemprop=\"name\" >Audra Baca<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title '   itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >Media Arts<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" >21st Century Public Academy<\/span><\/section><\/div>\n<div class='av-flex-placeholder'><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_table_cell av-equal-height-column av-align-top av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-5  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_third  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section  class='avia-team-member   avia-builder-el-6  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class='team-img-container'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class='wp-image-46504 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-46504 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"http:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/jose-chicas2.jpg\" alt='Jose Chicas'  itemprop=\"image\"  \/><div class='team-social'><div class='team-social-inner'><span class='hidden av_member_url_markup '  itemprop=\"email\" >mailto:jchicas@21stcenturypa.com<\/span><a rel='v:url' data-avia-tooltip=\"jchicas@21stcenturypa.com\"  class=' avia-team-icon ' href='mailto:jchicas@21stcenturypa.com' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue805' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name'    itemprop=\"name\" >Jose Chicas<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title '   itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >Music<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" >21st Century Public Academy<\/span><\/section><\/div>\n<div class='av-flex-placeholder'><\/div><div class=\"flex_column av_one_third  flex_column_table_cell av-equal-height-column av-align-top av-zero-column-padding   avia-builder-el-7  el_after_av_one_third  el_before_av_one_third  \" style='border-radius:0px; '><section  class='avia-team-member   avia-builder-el-8  avia-builder-el-no-sibling '  itemscope=\"itemscope\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/Person\" ><div class='team-img-container'><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" class='wp-image-7559 avia-img-lazy-loading-not-7559 avia_image avia_image_team' src=\"http:\/\/21stcenturypa.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/matthew-flores.jpg\" alt='Matthew Flores'  itemprop=\"image\"  \/><div class='team-social'><div class='team-social-inner'><span class='hidden av_member_url_markup '  itemprop=\"email\" >mailto:mflores@21stcenturypa.com<\/span><a rel='v:url' data-avia-tooltip=\"mflores@21stcenturypa.com\"  class=' avia-team-icon ' href='mailto:mflores@21stcenturypa.com' aria-hidden='true' data-av_icon='\ue805' data-av_iconfont='entypo-fontello'><\/a><\/div><\/div><\/div><h3 class='team-member-name'    itemprop=\"name\" >Matthew Flores<\/h3><div class='team-member-job-title '   itemprop=\"jobTitle\" >Physical Education<\/div><span class='hidden team-member-affiliation'  itemprop=\"affiliation\" >21st Century Public Academy<\/span><\/section><\/div><\/div><!--close column table wrapper. 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