Community-Word Project recently convened forty Teaching Artists to prepare for the new school year. We challenged Teaching Artists to re-ignite their creative …
When I was eight years old, Barbara Danish, a poet, came to our neighborhood school, P.S. 107, to do a poetry project. All of my classmates wrote poems, storie…
The late Dr. Maxine Greene Ph.D., Philosophy of Education and Professor Emerita at Teachers College at Columbia University, was a pioneer. Armed with her philo…
Uptown is brownies served around the clock, the Uptown way,the smell of chicken wings when I walk around La Casa De Mofongo.Uptown is cars winking at me, pots …
Giving art a real chance in the classroom grants students access to define their success and identity. Funding for arts education has always been a struggle. L…
Community-Word Project’s Teaching Artists Training and Internship Program has a classroom internship component. Pairs of trainees are assigned to join Teaching…
Community-Word Project’s Teaching Artist Training and Internship Program (TATIP) offers elective seminars. The “Creative Aging” seminar was led by staff from L…
Fifty 10th graders from Bronx Envision Academy and thirty-five 5th graders from P.S./M.S. 279 visited Poets House this spring. Education Director and Poet…
