Community-Word Project

COMMUNITY-WORD CONVENES TEACHING ARTISTS FOR NEW SCHOOL YEAR

40 CWP Teaching Artists gathered to learn best practices for classroom strategies, Common Core standards, and igniting the creative spirit to teach through their art.

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TEACHING FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE

Today's classrooms teach for Social Injustice. CWP's Summer Institute met the challenge head on with an intense workshop focused on Not Teaching for Social Justice.

UPTOWN LEGENDS: HISTORIA DE LO NUESTRO

3rd Graders in Ms. Estades's class at P.S.132 collaborated on a class poem about their neighborhood: We are Uptown! We are New York City!

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GRACE LEE: TEACHING ARTIST IN TRAINING PART III

Community-Word Project’s Teaching Artists Training and Internship Program (TATIP) has a classroom internship component. Pairs of trainees are assigned to join Teaching Artists teams to gain hands-on experience working in NYC classrooms.

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GRACE LEE: TEACHING ARTIST IN TRAINING PART II

CWP's Teaching Artist Training and Internship Program (TATIP) offers an elective seminar in Creative Aging for those who want to work with older adults.

Craig Hayes, STAFF

16,000 NYC KIDS IN 16 YEARS

The 2013-2014 school year saw 1,700 students in CWP's collaborative arts residencies. Here are some statistics on our impact this past year.

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EXPANDING PERSPECTIVES: EXPOSING STUDENTS TO CULTURAL RESOURCES IN NYC

Community-Word Project took students on a field trip to Poets House in order to introduce them to the rich variety of cultural institutions in New York City.

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GRACE LEE: TEACHING ARTIST IN TRAINING PART I

Grace Lee recently completed CWP's Teaching Artist Training and Internship Program. Here she discusses her writing and arts background and how she found our program.

Craig Hayes, STAFF