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…
It seems the first day of class causes jitters for students and teachers alike. However, in this instance it was my first day and the students’ second so the n…
I was looking forward to returning to my TATIP internship at PS 132 after the winter break. It’s so lovely to walk into class and hear the students say, “Good …
Third Grade Students at PS 84 created “Metaphors To Go"!The Students used Creative Thinking and Emotional Intelligence by expressing themselves through Ma…
