Community-Word Project

TEACHING ARTIST TRAINEES LEARN TO COLLABORATE

Teaching Artists learn the power of teamwork through Sequencing techniques and co-planning and co-teaching Lesson Plans.

TEACHING ARTIST TRAINEES EXPLORE BUILDING BLOCKS OF LESSON PLANS

Classroom Teachers are not the only ones concerned with standards as they prepare Lesson Plans.

TEACHING ARTIST TRAINEE INSPIRED BY POET BARBARA DANISH

A writer's visit to Leila Ortiz's childhood classroom, inspired her to become a Poet and Teaching Artist. CWP student, Ijay, composing poem at Poets House.

Craig Hayes, STAFF

FUNDING ARTS EDUCATION IS DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE SUCCESS OF OUR STUDENTS OF COLOR

NYC steps up and pledges $23 million to increase the impact of arts education in public schools.

CRAFT TO CLASSROOM AT NYU: DISCOVERING EDUCATION THROUGH ARTISTRY

Community-Word Project program staff led Craft to Classroom workshop at New York University's Forum on the Teaching Artist.

81 STUDENT POEMS EDITED BY 11 VOLUNTEERS AT ‘BE THE ONE’ DAY AT P.S./M.S. 279 IN THE BRONX

CWP held the 4th Annual ‘Be The One’ editing day at P.S./M.S. 279 in the Bronx. Corporate volunteers from Linklaters, BlackRock, One King’s Lane, and Rizzoli Publishing joined CWP board members to improve the literacy skills of eighty-one students.

Craig Hayes, STAFF

BRONX ENVISION ACADEMY STUDENTS EXPLORE THEME OF SELF-PORTRAITS TO MAKE BOTH VISUAL AND POETIC ART.

Bronx Envision Academy students wrote self-portrait poems and created hand-made journals, collages, drawings and prints.

Craig Hayes, STAFF

ACTRESS KERRY WASHINGTON BELIEVES ARTS SHOULD BE PART OF THE EQUATION IN EVERY SCHOOL.

Kerry Washington is a member of Turnaround Arts, an arts-in-education program begun by the President's Committee on the Arts and Humanities. Ms. Washington, writing in HuffPo, believes that arts is a teaching tool that "works for all students."

Craig Hayes, STAFF

WRITING OUR FUTURE

On March 31st our community came together to support arts education in NYC public schools.

Craig Hayes, STAFF