There are three Broad Areas of Learning that reflect Saskatchewan's Goals of Education. K-12 arts education contribution to the Goals of Education through helping students achieve knowledge, skills and attitudes related to these Broad Areas of Learning.

Students who are engaged in constructing and applying knowledge build a positive disposition towards learning. Throughout the study of vocal jazz, students explore and express ideas and gain understandings, skills and strategies to become more competent and confident jazz performers, listeners and consumers. As students engage in meaningful cultural and artistic inquiry within schools and communities, they are able to gain a depth of understanding about the world and human experience that enables them to become more knowledgeable, confident and creative lifelong learners.

Students discover that studying vocal jazz can be an effective means of developing self-knowledge, understanding others and building community. Students who possess a positive sense of self and belonging are able to nurture meaningful relationships. Students use vocal jazz to explore and express their own ideas, feelings, beliefs and values and also learn to interpret and understand those expressed by others. Is there a them or event that may have inspired some pieces of music? Billie Holiday's Strange Fruit and Oscar Peterson's Hymn To Freedom are examples of music infused with powerful messages.

To learn vocal jazz, students need to learn to use the jazz language as well as how to interact with other jazz musicians. In fact, interaction with other musicians is part of the essence of jazz. Through the study of jazz, students learn about themselves, others and the world around them. They may use the language of jazz to define who they are and to explore who they might become.

The study of vocal jazz gives students multiple ways to express their views and to reflect on the perspectives and experiences of others. Students learn how to perform, improvise, compose, problem solve, inspire change and contribute innovative ideas that can improve the quality of their own performances and the performances of others. Students studying vocal jazz seek to discover who they are, envision who they might become, imagine possibilities and provide new ideas and alternatives for the future. Students will also gain an understadning of the tremendous contributions and social commentary that vocal jazz musicians offer the world.