Community
Programs with PAE
Grant
Middle School S.T.A.R.S. After-school
Program 2007 - 08
2007-08 is the third
year of programming and partnership for
the S.T.A.R.S. (Strategic Teaching Assures
Reading Success) program between Grant
Middle School and Partners for Arts Education. The
program again offers eight different
artistic disciplines with a connection
to the overall needs of Grant’s
reading and literacy focus and the 21st
Century Learning Community guidelines.
This
year's art forms include video
production, fiber
arts (tie-dying, weaving, etc.), folk
dance, creative writing, visual art,
multicultural culinary arts, and ceramics.
2007-08
Teaching Artists:
Anahid Adjemian - ceramics
Wilson Akuamoah-Boateng - fiber arts
Joan Applebaum - visual art
Tim Brachocki - digital media, video
Jane Cassady - creative writing
Patti Clark Heath - tinikling (Indonesian
folk dance)
Connie Walters - culinary arts
Artistic Coordinator -
Georgia Popoff |
2007-08
Grant Faculty:
Bernice Calabria
Linda Flanagan
Sandi Francis
Cherie Heron
Tina Jarmacz
Erin Kiley
Heidi Kresser
Michael Lamontagne
Martha Marriot
Larry Maxwell
Tony Pappalardo
MaryBeth Piazza
Heather Young
Site Coordinator -
Marilyn Barletta |
The 21st
Century Community Learning Center programming
in New York State is supported by federal
funds through the No Child Left Behind
act and the New York State Department
of Education. The
primary goals for these programs include:
- Academic support that connects to
the school day;
- Recreation and physical activity;
- Enrichment and artistic/cultural
experiences;
- Character education; and
- Parental involvement
The partnership
between Grant Middle School and PAE provides
a well-rounded experience that draws
all five of these elements into a year-long
investigation of the arts in multiple
disciplines to help develop
whole, literate students,
and offers teachers and teaching artists
serving as mentors and role models to
lifelong learning.
The results
are children actively engaged in:
- Creating visual art of many forms;
- Using their bodies
in healthy, creative ways with dance;
- Learning about foods
from around the world while developing
nutritional knowledge, and
enforcing reading skills and comprehension;
- Viewing the world
around them through the camera lens
to reflect their own world view, while
learning the process of videography
as art as well as documentation;
- Process and artistic
craft through various artistic media;
- Writing, reading,
and revision in creative
writing;
- Empathy, collaboration, diversity
and multi-cultural awareness;
- Peer-to-peer support;
- Creative problem-solving;
- Responsibility to the community through
clean-up tasks; and
- Enjoyment of the arts as a part of
everyday life and awareness.
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