Community-Word Project

TATIP RECONVENES FOR LAST WORKSHOP

Final workshop before CWP Teaching Artist trainees enter schools for internships.

TRADITIONAL EVALUATION TOOLS LIMIT ARTS-IN-ED ASSESSMENT

Albert Einstein: “Everything that can be counted does not necessarily count; everything that counts cannot necessarily be counted.”

TEACHING ARTIST TRAINEES LEARN TO COLLABORATE

Teaching Artists learn the power of teamwork through Sequencing techniques and co-planning and co-teaching Lesson Plans.

TEACHING ARTIST TRAINEES EXPLORE BUILDING BLOCKS OF LESSON PLANS

Classroom Teachers are not the only ones concerned with standards as they prepare Lesson Plans.

TEACHING ARTIST TRAINEE INSPIRED BY POET BARBARA DANISH

A writer's visit to Leila Ortiz's childhood classroom, inspired her to become a Poet and Teaching Artist. CWP student, Ijay, composing poem at Poets House.

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FUNDING ARTS EDUCATION IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE SUCCESS OF OUR STUDENTS OF COLOR

NYC steps up and pledges $23 million to increase the impact of arts education in public schools.

BRONX ENVISION ACADEMY STUDENTS EXPLORE THEME OF SELF-PORTRAITS TO MAKE BOTH VISUAL AND POETIC ART.

Bronx Envision Academy students wrote self-portrait poems and created hand-made journals, collages, drawings and prints.

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ACTRESS KERRY WASHINGTON BELIEVES ARTS SHOULD BE PART OF THE EQUATION IN EVERY SCHOOL.

Kerry Washington is a member of Turnaround Arts, an arts-in-education program begun by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Ms. Washington, writing in HuffPo, believes that arts is a teaching tool that "works for all students."

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WHAT SOUND IS YOUR SELF-PORTRAIT?

Second-grade students at P.S. 316 explore Cubist portraiture with Teaching Artists, Ms. Lisa and Ms. Katie.