This month’s Bright Spot from The Young Women's Leadership School of Queens (TYWLS-Q) is focused on one particular student who has been a charismatic reader an…
After a Visual Inquiry on Egon Schele’s self portrait/contour drawing, 9th and 10th grade students at BEA teamed up to create portraits of each other in 60 sec…
Saturday’s workshop was all about how we use theatre for social justice. We explored many different activities that could be used in the classroom to help stud…
The students of this classroom Community School 111Q have taken a great leap towards togetherness in recent weeks as they have explored the idea of mindfulness…
The first and second grade students at PS 316 in Brooklyn spent an exciting 18 weeks with CWP Teaching Artists Felipe Galindo and Phyllis Capello. During their…
During the first session at PS 17, Teahing Artists Maria and Ally introduced the concept of "poetic license" so that students could feel free to explore and be…
At PS 676, students have been learning about and creating their own motifs. One student is usually withdrawn, and often unengaged, though observant, during CWP…
I use to write a lot when I was a child. At one point I started writing a novel that I asked my grandmother to edit because I was determined to become a publis…
The theme of this lesson at PS/MS 279 Afterschool was “Where I’m from”. Students were given a prompt for a quick free-write to begin to explore ideas abou…
