The Taos Integrated School of the Arts, in partnership with parents and community, will provide K-8 students in the Taos Municipal School District with the opportunity to reach their maximum potential through a standards-based, multicultural, thematic, and arts-integrated curriculum. Art-integration creates more meaningful learning through using the arts-visual art, drama, music, dance-as a catalyst to create broader and deeper learning experiences. Taos is a multicultural community steeped in articstic tradition. We wish to found a school that profides students with a multicultural worldview while utilizing thematic units and the arts to facilitate academic learning. OUr mission is to educate the whole child in order to cultivate in young people the skills, knowledge, and values they need to reach their highest potential.