PRODUCTS OF PREVIOUS LEADERSHIP

Web Sites

PS
156 K: The Waverly School

Brooklyn’s
PS 156, now considered a national model for excellence in education,
has designed a curriculum that comprehensively integrates the
arts and multicultural studies with activities in literacy, social
studies, math and science. The web site they have created describes
of their multidisciplinary approach, the Arts Strand Program;
lesson plans; tips for curriculum integration; and a gallery of
photos.

Students
study the dance, music or visual arts of a particularly culture
as part of a twelve week "strand" with the participation of resident
artists and writers. Classroom teachers integrate the strand into
their own standards-based lessons and projects.

PS
144 Q: The Col. Jeromus Remsen School

PS
144 has created a web site with step by step instructions for
planning a successful arts partnership with cultural institutions,
including resources and links to curriculum planning sites. With
their partner, the Queens
Museum of Art, this Leadership school has developed a "Promise
of the Park" program that fosters connections between the cultural
organizations located in nearby Flushing Meadow Park, aligning
classroom curricula with museum visits, workshops and residencies.

Publications

If you are interested in obtaining any of these samples, they are
available on request through contacts at the schools. Please see
the accompanying links for more information.

The Hungerford School

The
Hungerford School on Staten Island serves high school students
with disabilities. Hungerford has designed A Captain’s Log,
a manual written by special education teachers, speech teachers,
an occupational therapist and educators from the Noble
Maritime Collection. The manual contains lesson plans for
special education students that address maritime history while
simultaneously addressing New
York State Learning Standards in language arts, social studies,
math, science and the arts.

The
Petrides School

PS
80, The Petrides School, expanded the concept of "Book in a Bag"
kits with their cultural partner, Education
In Dance, to include musical selections as well as the usual
book. When taking part in dance residencies led by teaching artists,
students bring home a "Book in a Bag" to engage in curriculum-related
activities outside of the classroom. The school also developed, A Guide for Integrating the Arts, which instructs classroom
teachers, administrators, teaching artists how to make the most
out of an arts residency and how to assemble their own "Book in
a Bag" kits for any integrated arts program.

El
Puente Academy

El
Puente Academy has published their own Integrated Arts Handbook,
a source of best practices for schools to use when creating an
integrated arts curriculum. The handbook addresses scheduling,
funding, eliciting ideas, collaboration, documentation, timeline
and evaluation. The handbook is also accompanied by a CD-ROM that
contains video clips, curriculum samples, schematics and examples
of student work. In the guide, the school provides examples of
its own "Integrated Arts Projects," all of which address community
concerns. The contents of the handbook can be viewed at El
Puente’s website, which contains additional information about
El Puente’s arts education programs.