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Young Audiences of Western New York (YAWNY) |
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Written by Maryellen Rogusky
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Thursday, 02 February 2006 08:44 |
Young Audiences of Western New York, Inc. partners with the City of Buffalo Waterfront School to integrate the arts using literacy as the overriding link. The project encompasses Kindergarten (ages 4-5), fourth grade (ages 9-10) and fifth and sixth grades (ages 11-12). YA-WNY’s relationship with Waterfront began in 1999 when parents and teachers approached YA-WNY to help strengthen the school’s mission to develop “self-motivated, life long learners…while integrating the arts with academics and maintaining high standards…” Since 2001, Waterfront Elementary and YA-WNY have partnered in an ESP with the overarching goal to integrate the arts using literacy as the overriding link.
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Written by Maryellen Rogusky
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Thursday, 02 February 2006 08:40 |
New Design high school in New York, NY is currently comprised of 200 students in the 9th and 10th grades; by 2006 there will be a maximum of 500 students attending the school. New Design's vision is to integrate the idea, concept and process of design into a progressive, academic, high school curriculum, thereby offering a model of innovative and comprehensive education. New Design is striving to be a school in which traditional subject matter will be integrated and taught through the design process used by the design fields. The school community believes that using design as a foundation for all teaching allows students to experience an Inquiry-based education focused on understanding real world contexts, encourages self-expression, and develop problem solving techniques. When students are engaged in the process of designing, they are learning to observe, seek problems, identify needs, work collaboratively, explore, appreciate solutions, and communicate their ideas verbally, graphically and three dimensionally. To this end Working Playground and New Design HS have created Education by Design. Education by Design is a school-wide program comprised of three strands:
- The Studio Program
- Art-Integration
- School Culture
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Written by Maryellen Rogusky
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Thursday, 02 February 2006 08:37 |
This project helps teachers enhance their students' abilities to achieve the New York Schools Learning Standards in Language Arts and Visual Arts. The goals are to provide visual arts instruction to general and Special Education students, grades K-5; to develop a sequence for visual arts instruction and Interdisciplinary study units that meet NYS Learning Standards 1-4 in Visual Arts and Language Arts; to develop process portfolios; to disseminate model study units with related student work. The entire school is involved in visual arts classes.
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Written by Maryellen Rogusky
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Thursday, 02 February 2006 08:33 |
V.I.T.A.L. (Visual Integration of Technology, Arts and Language) is a model program to improve student literacy through the arts. A partnership among Project U.N.I.Q.U.E., the Memorial Art Gallery, and Elementary School No. 42 of the Rochester City School District, it has two basic goals: to increase student motivation to learn and to improve student literacy residencies supplied by a team of U.N.I.Q.U.E. artists with related Memorial Art Gallery field experiences.
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NYSCA ESL Project Overview |
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Written by Maryellen Rogusky
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Thursday, 02 February 2006 08:27 |
Arts in Education program
The Council believes that the arts are essential and basic to every child's education, and that the cultural community and the work of teaching artists are important resources for teachers and school-age children. The Council is committed to programs whose basic principle is teaching and learning about the arts. In support of these beliefs, the Arts in Education Program funds cultural organizations that work in partnership with schools to create programs where teaching is focused on deep exploration and enhancement of the arts and arts-related environmental sciences. The Program also supports projects that allow teachers, administrators, students, and parents to explore and examine the powerful role the arts can play in education and life-long learning. Support of these programs is also meant to encourage and complement sequential, skills-based study of the arts in all of the artistic disciplines.
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Written by Maryellen Rogusky
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Thursday, 02 February 2006 08:18 |
Project Title: Reflections of Me
The mission of the project is to encourage Critical Thinking skills and the conscious awareness of these skills through a teacher-facilitated, student-centered, art-based curriculum.
Project Description: Reflections of Me for 25 teachers and 350 students has 4 components:
- Professional Development in Visual Thinking Strategies
- VTS student discussions and writing activities in the classroom and at the museum
- Self-Portraits with teaching artist for museum exhibition
- assessment: action research to assess student growth and evaluate the project.
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Written by Maryellen Rogusky
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Thursday, 02 February 2006 08:06 |
DreamYard has built a rich collaboration with PS/MS 306 in District 10 in the North Bronx. DreamYard's programmatic relationship with PS 306 has grown significantly over the last 3 years. This year our Arts Partnership is running 18 in-school classes and 3 After school classes at the school. We have implemented comprehensive in school and after school arts education programs for students in grades K-8. Our school based collaborations are reaching every grade from K-8th grade. Each year DreamYard artists will collaborate with more and more of the PS/MS 306 staff with the goal of developing a common set of expectations when it comes to gauging quality work, this includes: criteria for classroom work, Rubrics for student performance, grade-wide portfolio projects, meaningful evaluative protocol developed with the aid of the Bank Street College and a vital parent program that invites parents to be collaborators in school life. We have a vision for a whole school arts model. No student will graduate from PS 306 without having been deeply involved and actively engaged in the arts.
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Written by Maryellen Rogusky
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Thursday, 26 January 2006 03:33 |
Evidence of Student Learning
The NYSCA Evidence of Student Learning project (NYSCA ESL) was funded because NYSCA wants to strengthen the field’s ability to report results of Partnerships. The Partnership between NYSCA and The SchoolWorks Lab, Inc. produced this section of EdSpeak.org, a website where teachers and teaching artists from across New York State can discuss their evidence of student learning. This partnership developed a research question to guide the work: How does contributing to an online database of evidence of student learning in and through the arts facilitate Professional Development of teachers and teaching artists, provide a model for assessment gathering, and aid in accountability issues across a large state?”
Professional Development Model
Gathering evidence of student learning and reporting it online is the strategy behind developing a databse that will facilitate an "assessment data gathering professional development model" (Southworth, Summer Seminar, 2003). Much of the work this year has been in responding to comments on how to make this more teacher friendly, and less onerous in reporting the evidence of student learning.
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