Registration Open for TAP Summer Series

Applications Open for Teaching Artist Project 2020-21

Teaching Artist Project is a collective of diversely experienced arts educators training emerging and working teaching artists who are looking for a supportive community to engage in a self-reflective, justice-oriented learning practice in service of their teaching. The program entails a rigorous, 8-month curriculum, rich in social justice-based pedagogy that also provides supervised on-the-job experience.

The program is a division of Community-Word Project (CWP), a New York City based 501(c)(3) arts-in-education organization that inspires children in underserved communities to read, interpret, and respond to their world and to become active citizens through collaborative arts residencies and teacher training programs. Formerly known as the Teaching Artist Training and Internship Program (TATIP), Teaching Artist Project was the first of its kind and remains today the only comprehensive training program for working Teaching Artists. Teaching Artist Project Alums have gone on to serve over 250,000 students throughout the world. 

Through the 8-month long Teaching Artist Project training, participants will:

1. Expand teaching through experiential, inquiry and reflection processes
2. Investigate social justice education, pedagogies and philosophies
3. Explore creative processes and critical thinking
4. Implement strategies for classroom management 
5. Aquire and utilize teaching methods for multiple learning types and levels
6. Create collaborative arts lessons
7. Build community with artists, teachers and organizations across New York City
8. And much more!

You can read all about Teaching Artist Project, Summer Institute, how to apply, the TAP Cohort, customized training for your organization, and much more at the program's website: teachingartistproject.org.

For more information on Teaching Artist Project, contact us at TAP@communitywordproject.org 

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  Pamella AllenTAP Graduate

  TAP prepared me to adapt to all kinds of collaborative teaching, as well as gave me the tools to handle challenging situations within the public school system.

Community-Word Project provides professional and staff development for classroom teachers, school and after-school administrators, Teaching Artists, student teachers, youth workers, and other arts organizations. We create specialized sessions based on each group's needs, with particular focus on innovative ways to strengthen collaborative, creative expression and literacy skills.

Our trainings include, but are not restricted to: 

1. Creative elements and teaching the creative process
2. Curriculum development
3. Lesson planning and scaffolding
4. Classroom management
5. Teaching for social justice
6. Co-teaching
7. Teaching philosophies
8. Trauma-informed training
9. Teaching for special needs
10. Inquiry and reflection
11. Assessment
12. And much more.

Check out some samples here of what we have offered in the past through our Teaching Artist Project. If you're interested in a customized training, please write to us at TAP@communitywordproject.org for more information.

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  Lucy FriedmanExpandED Schools Leadership Council Member

  CWP inspires kids to dream, create, and share. It gives them a voice filled with pride. I am hopeful that all kids not only become literate, but also enjoy literacy.

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  Terri GreyPrincipal, BHSWCA

  Our work with CWP helped with our Quality Review. It was used as evidence to prove we were doing what we said we were going to do.