SALSA's Mission

SALSA is a four-year program at Manual Arts High School dedicated to building leadership committed to social action.  SALSA students will become thoughtful and confident participants in our nation’s democracy, able to participate in many different ways. 

All core and elective courses in SALSA will be both standards-based and focused on Arts, Change, Self, and Society.  The SALSA faculty will, along with student, parent, and community input, create interdisciplinary curriculum that will speak to authentic issues and develop SALSA students’ abilities to create powerful responses to these issues.

SALSA graduates will be:

• culturally sensitive
• critical thinkers
• effective communicators
• active and responsible citizens
• academic leaders
• committed community leaders
• promoters of change in their personal lives and society as a whole
• prepared for life as an adult
• prepared for careers dedicated to serving the public good
• aware of inequities in society and prepared to be agents of transformative change
• able to discover connections that show transformative solutions
• able to use the Arts as a means for understanding themselves and society as well as for expressing their ideas, views, and passions about themselves and society