Sept. 2008 - May 2009
7 Loaves Inc. AKA Goh Productions
Vit Horejs, Artistic Director
New York, New York Co.
TAP Category: Partnership Planning and Collaboration
Abstract: Participants in funded planning include teachers from the neighborhood school and members of the Czechoslovak Marionette Theatre. The group will explore the creation of scenes, characters, plot elements, story conflict and resolution; examine peer writing for social communication; gain understanding of the group writing experience; discuss puppet-character techniques, costume and set design suitable for 3rd-grade classes; participate in a short vocal and theatre exercise; and learn about character development performance skills in a short workshop. Teachers will gain a personal, hands-on experience in puppet work and its relevance to literacy, and artists will gain a better understanding of the needs of students and teachers.
Arlington Central School District
Susan Lesser, Arts-in-Education Coordinator
Poughkeepsie, Dutchess Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: The Arlington Central School District will offer a 6-hour professional development course entitled "Using Film and Theatre Arts to Teach Literacy" to 25 K-8 classroom teachers who will engage hands-on film and drama activities that mimic that which their students will ultimately do in residencies. Given the district’s current freeze on any/all spending, including professional development conference travel, this course brings an AIE PD opportunity to teachers.
Arts For Kids, Inc.
Vincent Ector, Executive Director
West Orange, NJ
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: Arts For Kids, Inc. (AFK), an arts-in-education non-profit with an established NYCDOE and District 75 vendor contract, will use funding to hire an arts-in-education consultant to assist with the writing of curriculum and implementation of professional development and capacity-building workshops. AFK offers in-school special needs-based arts programs in Dance, Visual Art, Drama and Music. AFK will expand its five-year partnership with 811X by offering professional development workshops for school staff and parents that integrate the arts into standard-based curriculum with a special-needs focus.
Bang on a Can
Tim Thomas, Director of Development
Brooklyn, Kings Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: Funding will pay for consulting to guide us through the development and completion of strategic planning and curriculum writing for our MUSIC CAN arts in education program. The MUSIC CAN program is currently active in three New York City high schools located in highly underserved areas. This process will assure quality and impact, provide a roadmap for alignment with the NY State Learning Standards in the Arts, assure deeper integration and cooperation with classroom teachers, and ultimately enable us to expand this program for broad implementation throughout the city.
Bard College and Red Hook Central School District
Ann Gabler, Arts Education Coordinator, Bard College
Annandale, Dutchess Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: Teachers and teaching artists attended an introductory ETSL workshop in October 2008. To build on the excitement and buy-in demonstrated at that initial session, funds will be applied to consultant's and teaching artists' fees as we implement ETSL in at least four classrooms in winter/spring 2009 with two teaching artists and one high school and four elementary teachers. Result will be shared with the whole faculty, PTA, parent groups, and colleagues in the AIE field in preparation for a Strategic Foundation Building Retreat next year.
Behind the Book
Jo Umans, Executive Director
New York, New York Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: In a year-long planning program with a committee of stakeholders from PS 274 we will discuss and assess how to strengthen classroom literacy supports and invest all participants, and create a more informed curriculum plan for our teachers. Funding from TAP will cover professional fees for a certified TAP/NYSCA arts consultant provide guidance in our partnership planning, help create a program evaluation to be administered to our students, observe our programs at other elementary schools, and provide recommendations based on class observations and analysis of our curriculum.
Susan Blacklocke
Teaching Artist
Jamesport, Suffolk Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: In the '07-'08 school year I was awarded a successful LCB Partnership implementing Poi arts (a cultural tribal dance art from New Zealand) into the World History, Music and Art curricula at the Masera Learning Center, a BOCES school serving with children autistic spectrum disorder. TAP Funds will be used for an Applied Behavior Analysis course to combine ABA techniques with Poi arts to deepen and facilitate the students' internalization of their core curriculum studies as part of this year's LCB grant.
BRIC
Hawley Hussey, Director of Education
Brooklyn, Kings Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: Funds will be used to initiate “Scale it up!," an intensive two-part series of professional development opportunities for artist educators and classroom teachers from three Brooklyn public schools. The series will further develop assessment and planning understanding by exposing artist educators and classroom teachers at key partner schools to the planning, assessment, and evaluation learning central to the Evidence of Teacher and Student Learning Template and will take place in the Art Research Lab at BRIC Rotunda Gallery's ESP partner school, the Juan Morel Campos Secondary School.
Amie Brockway
Producing Artistic Director, Open Eye Theatre
Margaretville, Delaware Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: Funds will be applied to tuition for "Shakespeare's Rhetoric" at Shakespeare & Co., a hands-on workshop encompassing a week of voice work, movement and text classes which focus on speeches and exchanges in Shakespeare's plays that highlight elements of structure and rhetoric. New knowledge and skills will be applied to future directing, teaching, and performance opportunities. Open Eye Theater has ESP partnerships with two rural schools.
Brooklyn Museum
Lidy Chu, Manager of Foundation and Agency Relations
Brooklyn, Kings Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: The Brooklyn Museums seeks NYSCA TAP funding to work with a consultant to realize a full-day planning retreat where educators from P.S. 1K, the Brooklyn Museum and teaching artist Zen Browne will work together to articulate a shared vision for a long term, school-wide arts-in-education partnership. The retreat will address both professional and organizational needs.
Calpulli Mexican Dance Company
Juan Castano, Managing Director
Jackson Heights, Queens Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: Calpulli Mexican Dance Co. worked with the National Dance Institute in 2008 by sharing expertise in Mexican dance and culture. In return, National Dance Institute granted Calpulli two scholarships to its Teaching Artists training. Calpulli has used one of those scholarships, and it saw a vast improvement in the confidence and tools available to its teaching artists. Now, it seeks to have two additional teaching artists with the company complete the training; the third individual will be covered with this request.
Center for Creative Education
Ev Mann, Executive Director
Kingston, Ulster Co.
TAP Category: Curriculum Design
Abstract: TAP funding will support an arts-education consultant for the Center for Creative Education who will work with CCE staff to create an arts education program design for CCE’s first three years of operation in its new home, a new permanent building on the Kingston HS campus. This potential for the permanent residency of an arts education organization provides us with a unique and vital opportunity to design progressive arts-integrated programming to serve the community of 2400 high school students.
Coalition of Arts Providers for Children, Inc.
Joyce Stilson, President
Buffalo, Erie Co.
TAP Category: Evaluation and Assessment
Abstract: Several ESP partnerships in the Western New York Region have been documenting their process through the ETSL database. Amy Chase Gulden will work with teams from Western New York ESP Partnerships, to address their specific questions. The sessions will be held jointly, so that different teams might benefit from each other's questions and learnings. As a result, participants will have a better understanding of how the ETSL units can be structured and designed.
Dancewave
Diane Jacobowitz, Executive and Artistic Director
Brooklyn, Kings Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: Funds will be used to hold a series of professional development seminars on creative movement and arts integration in the public schools for 3-6 year-olds. The seminar will also address teaching disadvantaged, "at risk" populations as well as special-ed student populations. This five-part series will train Dancewave instructors in best practices, introduce core concepts to partner school teachers and parents, and establish a standardized creative movement curriculum for our in-school arts and education programs. Seminar content will be recorded and codified in a handbook and video set that will form the basis of a free, in-house reference library on creative movement.
DanceWorks, Inc. dba Pentacle
Aliza Arenson, Director of Educational Programming
New York, New York Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: TAP support will be used to create a professional development curriculum that will train dance teachers to teach students about careers in dance, and provide them with strategies for involving students in production responsibilities. This curriculum will be developed from Pentacle's Behind the Scenes in-school partnerships, which teach students about administration, management, development, marketing and production careers through hands-on opportunities. It will encompass best practices, be adaptable to be used in a variety of settings, and use in-school dance specialists who are partners in the development and delivery of the curriculum.
Doing Art Together, Inc.
Heather Marie-Montilla, Executive Director
New York City, New York Co.
TAP Category: Strategic Foundation Building Retreat
Abstract: For nearly two decades, Doing Art Together (DAT) has brought hands-on arts education to PS 154, a school located in the Mott Haven section of the South Bronx. With the arrival of a new principal at PS 154 and a new executive director at Doing Art Together, the school and DAT will use TAP funds to support a Strategic Foundation-Building Retreat to establish common goals, core values, and a vision for the program. The collaboration will articulate an arts education curriculum for the second grade students at PS 154 which will empower the children, through effective integration of the arts, to become active participants in the learning process.
Global Writes, Inc.
Maria Fico, Co-President
Yonkers, Westchester Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: Global Writes, in coordination with the Nyack Teachers Center and Nyack Middle School, has identified a professional consultant who will provide three days of professional development to six teachers in the 7th-grade Writing Workshop program. The consultant, along with Global Writes staff, will guide the teachers through workshops which will focus on the following themes: building effective collaborations for classroom teachers and teaching artists; strategies for building a productive Writing Workshop in the classroom; taking original poems from page to performance.
Global Writes, Inc.
John Ellrodt, Co-President
Yonkers, Westchester Co.
TAP Category: Partnership Planning and Collaboration
Abstract: Global Writes is working with Van Wyck Middle School and the Wappingers CSD to develop a partnership with Bard College and its Institute for Writing and Thinking. Unfortunately, due to the budget crisis, NYSCA was unable to distribute awarded ESP Project Planning funds. However, all partners are eager to begin the planning process. TAP funding will allow us to hold a Strategic Planning Retreat to explore what each partner hopes to contribute to and gain from the collaboration, and then to lay the foundation for a productive and mutually beneficial long-term partnership.
Amina Heckstall
Teaching Artist, Global Arts To Go and PASE
Jamaica, Queens Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: Funds will be applied to tuition for the Jeh Kulu Annual Dance & Drum Conference in Burlington, Vermont that hosts an assortment of workshops taught by master African artists and Teaching Arts in education professionals. As a teaching artist who uses the African cultural arts of dance, drum, song, and folklore with my lessons and culminating event activities within the NYC afterschool program system, I will gain knowledge about how to improve my techniques in African cultural arts, and how to implement this in school programs.
High Meadow Arts, Inc.
Amy Poux, Executive Director
Rosendale, Ulster Co.
TAP Category: Evaluation and Assessment
Abstract: This grant will fund the extensive time after-school that High Meadow Arts' Teaching Artist Tracy Leavitt and High Meadow School's middle school Science teacher Betty Plichta have taken to document the arts partnership in their school using the ETSL template, and to train the entire staff of teachers and teaching artists to do so as well.
InCollaboration, Inc.
Long Island City, Queens Co.
TAP Category: Partnership Planning and Collaboration
Abstract: InCollaboration, Inc will provide an SFB retreat for three special-needs high schools to facilitate a discussion among the staff of both the schools and cultural organizations that will take into consideration the dramatic rise in autistic students who are now attending the schools, the technology changes we are witnessing today, and provide a blue print for examining what training will be necessary for teaching staff, administrative staff and parents.
Institute for Collaborative Education
Meryl Meisler, Art Teacher
New York, New York Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: I.C.E. will use TAP funds to pay for a facilitated retreat to begin the development of a comprehensive plan for arts education at the school, including a strategy for partnering with cultural organizations in a way that best uses their and the school's resources. Specific goals for the retreat are to develop a shared understanding of what the role of arts education should be at I.C.E., both in individual arts departments and integrated with subject courses; to outline a comprehensive plan for arts education at I.C.E., which will be developed further; to create a strategy for identifying and reaching out to potential cultural partners; and to develop a plan for further developing the arts education plan and sharing it with the I.C.E. professional community as a whole.
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning
Jeannine Almon, Grants Manager
Jamaica, Queens Co.
TAP Category: Program Evaluation and Student Assessment
Abstract: Funds will be used to support an independent evaluation of our "Page to Stage," a 20-week multidisciplinary residency at JHS217 in Queens. An independent evaluator will work with JCAL to create a plan, implement testing, analyze the results, and make recommendations for program changes. This residency is intended to be a pilot project, and an evaluation at this time will help us to assess the program's strengths and weaknesses and make the necessary adjustments prior to expansion.
Jericho Arts Council
Evelyn Baker, President
Bainbridge, Chenango Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building/Partnership Planning and Collaboration
Abstract: The Jericho Arts Council (JAC) plans on expanding the use of the historic Town Hall Theatre to include classes, workshops and artist residencies in all aspects of performance arts open to the town's youth, adults and seniors. Planning and implementing this expansion will include building new and long-term partnerships with the local Sidney-Guilford Central School District and the Bainbridge-Guilford High School. Funds will be used to hire a consultant to give a presentation to the JAC, the School District, and High School, collaboratively create a theatre residency plan, and help write an ESP grant.
Kinesthetic Intelligence Plus, Inc.
Dafna Soltes Stein, Executive Director
Huntington, Nassau Co.
TAP Category: Partnership Planning and Collaboration
Abstract: Funds will be used for a day-long facilitated retreat in which all stakeholders will examine the current partnership (which began two years ago) and develop a shared vision for further extending Storytelling and Drama throughout Birchwood Intermediate. What is the next level? What could it look like? How do we get there? We will set short and long term goals together.
The Learning Arts
Mount Kisco, Westchester Co.
TAP Category: Partnership Planning and Collaboration
Abstract: These funds will support a partnership retreat with a certified TAP/NYSCA facilitator to improve collaborative skills and cooperative planning between long-established educational partners, Peekskill Middle School and The Learning Arts. Our goals are to improve our partnership, collaboration, and exchange of ideas. There have been many changes in teaching staff and administration throughout the last few years and we hope to re-establish and refresh the partnership.
The Little Orchestra Society
Rosina Cannizzaro, Director of Education
New York New York Co.
TAP Category: Partnership Planning and Collaboration
Abstract: The Little Orchestra Society (LOS) and PS 24X will use a TAP grant to help fund a day-long arts education strategic planning retreat and follow-up planning sessions to take place in Spring and Fall 2009. These activities will significantly guide LOS education staff and teaching artist and PS24X music teachers, classroom teachers and administrators from PS 24X in meaningful planning for their 2009-2010 partnership to create a unique version of Musical Connections: The School Partnership Program to meet the needs of the PS 24X school community.
Magic Box Productions, Inc.
Nelle Stokes, Executive Director
Pleasantville, Westchester Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: Funding will be applied to curatorial services and teaching artist professional development in conjunction with FOCUS, our upcoming exhibit of student photography, animation, and documentary video. A curator and photography expert will prepare exhibition materials and development services, and provide professional development to Magic Box teaching artists in methods of developing in-school galleries and using a gallery as a teaching tool to help students develop the following skills: observation, critical thinking, the language of learning, visual literacy, and self-reflective writing.
Manhattan New Music Project
Unitey Kull, Managing Director
New York, New York Co.
TAP Category: Partnership Planning and Collaboration
Abstract: After one year of implementing arts education programs at the Urban Science Academy, the Manhattan New Musoi Project and the Urban Science Academy would like to initiate a formal partnership to deepen and extend arts programs within the school to better support student learning. Specifically, the partnership hopes to clarify a vision for school-wide arts integration into the curriculum and to develop a model that will be both sustainable and effective, shaping long-term vision and short-term objectives, sharing knowledge and history, and addressing the practical considerations of implementing the arts program in the school.
Steven McIntosh
Director of Education, Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts
Flushing, Queens Co.
TAP Category: Evaluation and Assessment
Abstract: Funds will be used to attend the Lincoln Center Institute's National Educator Workshop to understand and apply Lincoln Center's inquiry-based learning and teaching methodology for aesthetic education into our existing school-wide arts integration partnership and other education programs at Flushing Town Hall. Goals: to gain further skills and strategies for how works of art can serve as a study within school subjects; to utilize LCI templates for developing curriculum that will enhance our interactive K-12 exhibition tours, pre-show workshops, and school-based arts programs.
P373K - Brooklyn Transition Center
Janet Duncan, teacher
Brooklyn, Kings Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: This grant will provide professional development to staff serving developmentally disabled high school-aged students. Staff will learn to use African drumming as a method to teach social, behavioral, and academic skills. This grant will allow for teachers to improve the quality of instruction and is aligned to Children First initiatives.
PS 149, Danny Kaye School
Marcia Eversley, Arts Coordinator
Brooklyn, Kings Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: The compelling need at PS 149 is to provide a continuity of arts experiences in all art forms for all students throughout the year, and year to year. While sessions with outside providers serve as demonstration lessons for teachers in the presentation of the art form, the integrating process has not developed – teachers are not confident in making the connections. Professional development training will be provided to select teachers on each grade level in eight staff development sessions on teaching curriculum through the arts.
PS 209Q
Mary McDonnell, Principal
Whitestone, Bronx Co.
TAP Category: Partnership Planning and Collaboration
Abstract: PS 209Q does not have any formalized arts activities other than music. To conduct strategic planning we will engage a consultant to work with us to identify the needs of the students and school, existing resources, positive outcomes of previous arts activities, and next steps for our school. We will develop a plan to implement programs, initiatives, and professional development, and identify funding sources and arts partners. The strategic plan will guide us to meet the New York City Blueprint for the Arts and the NYS Arts Standards.
Rubin Museum of Art
Becky Gaugler, Coordinator, School Programs
New York, New York Co.
TAP Category: Evaluation and Assessment
Abstract: The Rubin Museum of Art and Liberty High School for Newcomers want to rigorously evaluate their NYSCA-sponsored partnership using the Evidence of Teacher and Student Learning (ETSL) template. In order to better serve the population of English as a Second Language students, the ETSL template will serve as both a planning and an assessment tool, creating a stronger, more thoughtful collaboration between museum educators, classroom teachers and administrators, leading to more finely-tuned outcomes. To begin, the ETSL will be used to track the 12-session Thinking Through Art collaboration in one classroom at Liberty.
Rush Philanthropic Arts Foundation
Meridith McNeil, Director of Education
Brooklyn, Kings Co.
TAP Category: Evaluation and Assessment
Abstract: Support from TAP will help to develop online evaluation instruments for stakeholders of Rush’s ESP Partnership programs. These instruments will be used to determine if outcomes have been met and to improve program performance. We also want to include parents in the evaluation process and, if possible, to explore the creation of an online mechanism that will enable stakeholders to communicate directly with each other via the website so that evaluation can be an ongoing, participatory activity.
St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble, Inc.
Liz Norman, Director of Education
New York, New York Co.
TAP Category: Arts Integrated Curriculum Design
Abstract: St. Luke's wants to fully realize the goals established by its Arts Education strategic plan for improved teacher - TA collaboration that results in improved planning, classroom teaching, documentation, and assessment of program activities. The grant will be used to engage a facilitator for a day with four third grade teachers from P.S. 3K, one school administrator, two teaching artists, and one St. Luke's staff member. Topics to be addressed include refinement of expectations of student work, clarification of vocabularies, and the creation of assessment rubrics to document student learning. Ultimately, the work done in the third grade will be adaptable for other grades (4th and 5th) at P.S. 3K and at St. Luke's other partnership schools.
Dafna Soltes Stein
Executive Director, Kinesthetic Intelligence Plus, Inc.
Huntington, Nassau Co.
TAP Category: Evaluation and Assessment
Abstract: Funds will be used to attend Project Zero Classroom offered through the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The program addresses issues of teaching for understanding and ways to use assessment to deepen student and teacher learning. The course will help my own practice as a teaching-artist, guide me in designed improved assessments and hone my skills in leading PD workshops for teachers.
Spanish Theatre Repertory
Allison Astor-Vargas, Program Officer
New York, New York Co.
TAP Category: Partnership Planning and Collaboration
Abstract: While STR has successfully established collaborations with over 25 New York City schools, the challenge has been moving to the next level of development and/or implementation. The goals are to build our capacity to identify and meet the challenges that affect our program and that have limited the potential in any given school, and to improve our evaluation methods in measuring our achievement as well as the progress of participating students.
Joyce Stilson
M.U.S.E. Director of Programs and Development
Buffalo, Erie Co.
TAP Category: TAP Scholarship
Abstract: Funds will be used to attend THE KUMASI SYMPOSIUM at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology in Kumasi, Ghana in August of 2009. As Director of Program & Development for MUSE, it is my responsibility to oversee three ESP programs, one of which is a full year into the planning stage of an opera retelling the Transatlantic Slave Trade as told by students from the perspective of each of their countries: the United States, Ghana and England. The conference will be a key component to planning this one-of-a-kind arts-in-education global experience.
Jennifer Veit
Teacher, PS 63Q
Astoria, Queens Co.
TAP Category: Professional Development and Capacity Building
Abstract: Ms. Viet is attending the American Orff Schulwerk Association's 2008 National Conference in North Carolina, where she will participate in over a dozen workshops given by nationally recognized Orff Schulwerk pedagogues. These workshops will address the use of children's literature and kinesthetic learning in the music classroom, as well as curriculum building and assessment strategies. By attending these conference sessions, her students' music learning experiences will be enriched through the implementation of the activities acquired (songs, folk dances, musical games) and through the teaching skills gained.
Vital Theatre with Brooklyn Theatre Arts High School
Linda Ames Key, Education Director, Vital Theatre
New York City, New York Co.
TAP Category: Evaluation and Assessment
Abstract: Funding allows our Vital lead teaching artist and BTAHS Global Studies teacher to create their first ETSL template based on their two years of work in Global Studies. Their co-created curriculum includes two-semester-long projects that culminate in a historical character interview in Semester One (fully researched, memorized and costumed by student participants) and a Civilization Film Project (Students research and write plays based on their choice of ancient civilizations, design costumes and sets and act and direct for these final film projects) in Semester Two.
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