Teaching is not a cookie-cutter task. It requires constant creativity, flexibility, and, like performing arts, the show must go on no matter what the circumsta…
In early February, we asked the Domminick/Torres class of PS 47 to create concrete mimes, still images created through their bodies, based on either the storyl…
Students at PS/MS 279 performed poetry and song in celebration of their Heroes Journey for their families and peers. The CWP classes were inspired by Etha…
This week, we welcomed Louise Story, a reporter at The New York Times, back to the classroom for a special visit with two classes at The Young Women’s Leadersh…
Teaching Artist, Asma Feyijinmi, led the students at MS 353 in drawing upon a dance called Ibo from Haiti to create tableaux. Ibo is a dance that emb…
Second period begins at 9:12am at PS 316 in Brooklyn and the students of this first grade visual arts and poetry class are always aware that it’s time for Comm…
On a rain-soaked Wednesday in late February, I worked on revising lines of poetry with a group of high school students in the Bronx. At The Bronx High School f…
This month at The Young Women's Leadership School of Queens (TYWLS-Q), the girls in Periods 7 and 8 finished their individual and community poems. They fo…
It was recently the mid-year culmination for my class in Washington Heights. They presented their poem with tableaux for another class in the library.The atmos…
