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Meet David…
Meet David, an 8th-grade English language learner at I.S. 93 in Ridgewood, Queens. David has been participating in our...
Summer School with ArtsConnection
During July and August 2018, ArtsConnection engaged 5,000 English Learner (EL) students in grades 2-8 in 76 schools throughout...
Digital DELLTA
Carol Morgan, ArtsConnection’s Deputy Director for Education and Joanna Hefferen, Director of Professional Development, are in Washington D.C. today...
Creating a Culture of Collaboration through Small Group Work in Dance
The students in Jennifer Golonka’s dance class are beginning to choreograph in small groups. They invent movements and spatial...
Conflict in America – Curriculum Connections in Theater
Teaching Artist Chris Heller collaborates with ESL and classroom teachers at PS 239Q to use a theme from the...
Yes, and…
Teaching Artist Tarik Davis works with ELA teachers at PS 153q in Maspeth, Queens NY to help ELL students...
Developing Artistic Voice in Dance
Sarah is a 5th grade advanced English Language Learner at PS 20Q. She is an eager student, but one...
Scaffolding Language through Warm-up Activities in Theater
The first goal of teaching artist Chris Heller’s theater residency at P.S. 239Q is to create a safe space...
Traditional Chinese Dance and Creative Movement
Mei-Yin Ng has been teaching Traditional Chinese Dance and Creative Movement at PS 20Q for 8 years. This combination...
Developing English Language Skills through Dance
Jia-Xing is a first year English Language Learner at PS 20 in Queens. He is also a naturally gifted...
Using Charts and Visual Aids In Dance Class
Teaching Artists Alda Reuter and Peter Bogdonos generate vocabulary charts with their ELL students. We see how using the...
English Language Learners Work Together to Create a Dance Phrase
Students in Ms. Sarantakis’ 3rd/4th grade class are learning how to perform and create a movement canon. Three students...
Working with Beginner English Language Learners in Improv Theater
Teaching Artist Lindsay MacNaughton and the ESL teachers at PS 229 in Queens, NY share strategies for working with...
Developing Artistic Voice through Improvisation
In Kim and Nami’s 4/5th grade dance residency, the artists provide students with a clear artistic process to help...
Observation and Description in Dance
Students in Maya’s 4/5th grade class are learning the beginning of a piece of choreography. The artists use observation...
Translating a Tool Box of Dance Elements
A 5th grade student at PS 19Q is a new arrival to the country and a beginner English Language...
Using a Feedback Chart for Revisions in Theater
Fourth grade students in Chris Heller’s theater residency at PS 239q devise scenes based on The Private Notebook of...
Introduction to Shadow Puppetry
On the first day of shadow puppetry, Teaching Artist Erin Orr introduces her 3rd grade students to the history...
Working with a Rubric in Theater
Using a rubric for theater, teaching artist Jenny Campbell leads students in Ms. Wong’s class at PS 163Q through...
Peer Feedback in 3rd Grade Shadow Puppetry
Teaching Artist, Erin Orr, establishes clear criteria for making a successful shadow puppet show. A group of students...
4th Grade Curriculum Connections – Learning to Collaborate
Ms. Dimin’s 4th grade students are adapting a Native American folktale – The Rough Faced Girl – into a...
4th Grade Curriculum Connections – Studying Native American Folktales
As part of their Native American Folktale study, Ms. Angelo’s 4th grade class reads and discusses “The Legend of...
5th Grade Curriculum Connections in Puppetry, Social Studies and ELA
The 5th graders at PS 130 connect their Parade Puppet Residency to their Social Studies Unit on “Slavery and...
An Overview of 4th Grade Hand Puppetry
A student in Ms. Angelo’s 4th grade class talks through the steps required to make a hand puppet show.
Eliciting Criteria by Doing a Silent Demonstration
In silence, Sarah Provost and her assistant, Kate Brehm, demonstrate the technique of making large-scale papier mâché puppets. Students...
Brainstorming Artistic Choices
Erin Orr’s 3rd grade puppetry students are brainstorming story ideas for their shadow-puppet show, which will be based on...
Revising Student Work in Theater
Midway through their Theater Residency, Eric Mark Olson’s 5th grade students rehearse and perform scripted monologues. Each student receives...
Using Revision to Deepen Student Work in Puppetry
Erin Orr’s 3rd grade puppetry students are rehearsing a shadow puppet show in front of their classmates, who have...
Building Collaboration through Peer Feedback
Students in Carol and Colin’s class have begun to choreograph dance pieces, midway through their dance residency with teaching...
Learning to Give Feedback with a Partner
Dance Artist Mei-Yin Ng is teaching a traditional Chinese ribbon dance, and at the same time lays the...
Providing Students with a Peer Feedback Protocol
The students in Ms. Meza’s 5th grade class are working in small groups and applying papier mâché to create...
Charting a Tool Box of Dance Elements
It is the first day of dance class, and many of Ms. Alvarado’s Dual Language students have never participated...
The Creative Learning Loop
Formative Assessment in the Arts Artistic creation in all art forms is an iterative process: collaboration, critique and revision...
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