Creative Curricula Grantees
2007–2008
- ArtsFlamenco and The Career Education Center
- ArtsFlamenco will integrate Flamenco arts, culture and history into the GED curriculum of Career Education Center’s alternative education program.
- Art in General and PACE High School
- The Contemporary Arts Education Program, will teach students video/media skills while enhancing their social studies and technology curricula.
- Francesca Ciotoli and P.S. 859, Special Music at the Kaufman School
- 6th and 8th grade students will use the work of Gilbert and Sullivan to explore Humanities themes including the history and social studies of the Victorian Era.
- Freedom Academic Movement and P.S. 34 Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Students will use current technology, visual art and digital photography to strengthen their reading, writing, and critical thinking skills.
- I.D.E.A.S. and The Manhattan School for Career Development
- Special education high school students will use improvisation to explore themes of social relevance such as peer pressure, alcohol, and drug use and respect.
- Making Books Sing and P.S. 155
- A 10-session residency, where 4th and 5th grade classes will adapt works of historical fiction into plays.
- Manhattan Neighborhood Network and M.S. 328
- Special education students at MS 328 will explore civic engagement and the media as they make a documentary about life in their Washington Heights neighborhood.
- Tribeca Performing Arts Center and P.S. 150
- Writing on Our Feet will be a theatre-based interdisciplinary program with a global perspective imbedded in the 4th and 5th grade Social Studies curriculum.
- Urban Word and Henry Street School for International Studies
- Urban Word workshops will provide a supportive, dynamic, and challenging community for students to develop their powerful voices as young poets.
- Working Playground, Inc. and the Heritage High School
- Three high school classes will receive year-long collaborative theater and poetry programs integrated into their English and Social Studies curricula.
