As part of the mid year culmination, students at PS 132 performed their community narratives poems. Students were divided into stanza groups and created tablea…
Last week, the student at IS 126 took news clippings from various papers and online articles and researched them in small groups. They then created a seri…
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…
