Abstract
This project is a Culminating Experience for a Masters of Arts in Education: Curriculum and Instruction with an Emphasis on Arts in Education. The project follows Pathway III: Developing a curriculum, program, or performance related to arts education or arts in education. The author is a general education teacher who has worked on composing a school song and completing a video yearbook to capture her elementary school’s historic first year. The methodology used throughout this project was narrative research. The researcher utilized reflective journals as narrative inquiry combined with interviews and written feedback from professionals, students, and families within the school community. Both the school song and video yearbook were a response to the school’s commitment to character education through building a strong community; and the goal of the work was to support the growth and development of a public school setting and community connection through the arts.