In part three of this three-part blog series, staff writer, Katie Rainey, explores Community-Word Project’s beginnings with one of this year’s Annual Benefit H…
It was 2008. I was thirteen years old, I had dyed my hair pink and not done a great job, I had glow-in-the-dark braces, and I liked to write. Every day after s…
In part two of this three part blog series, staff writer, Katie Rainey, explores Community-Word Project’s beginnings with one of this year’s Annual Benefit Hon…
I had the great luck of spending my internship at The Young Women’s Leadership School in Jamaica, where I got to observe CWP Teaching Artist, Katie Rainey, in…
In part one of this three part blog series, staff writer, Katie Rainey, explores Community-Word Project’s beginnings with one of this year’s Annual Benefit Hon…
Adapt or perish.H.G. Wells was talking about evolution when he coined that, but it can as easily be applied to teaching artistry. It’s one of the things the fi…
On March 5th, 2018, CWP volunteers traveled to Morris Heights in the Bronx to assist the 5th grade class at P.S. 279 Captain Manuel Rivera, Jr. in preppin…
As part of the Teaching Artist Project (TAP) training, I have been assigned to an internship at PS 171 in Astoria, Queens, assisting two lead Teachin…
When you think of New York City, what visual comes to mind? Towering buildings lined along a coast flanked by long, winding bridges, surely. But zoom in a lit…