…art’ … in this program, we were able to join [together] as artists.” This comprehensive approach gave students the opportunity dive deep, honoring the complexity of their story’s themes: inequality, policing and opportunity. The process culminated in a 3D virtual gallery presentation presented via Zoom on June 7th. The final project, entitled Poison Prison, told […]
…ng words, high-frequency academic words, and syntactical and grammatical complexity. Language is complex; it involves more than simply the knowledge of words. The paradigm of Communicative Comptence describes the complexity of language acquisition to help educators support its development in MLLs….
…pes and dreams of each student she works with. Often times in her teaching practice, she is faced with students who are shy, quiet, unwilling participants. She welcomes this challenge and patiently works with those students by being sensitive and cognizant of their needs. She says that the key to getting through to reluctant members […]
…onally, including in her work with ArtsConnection since 2002. Her teaching practice and methodology builds on the work of Anne Green Gilbert and is grounded in Brain Compatible Dance Education and neurodevelopmental patterning for infants, children and adults. In workshops and classes, Dionne facilitates and supports creative exploration and skill development in a holistic learning […]
Committing to Anti-Racism and Celebrating ArtsConnection’s Black Community ArtsConnection believes its community of artists, staff and board play a unique role in modelling the humanity in all of us. Because we value the arts as a universal language, we strive to create socially just learning environments that are reflective of the city’s demographics and that […]
…nd parents and made them proud. Most of all, students discovered that with practice and determination, they can accomplish anything. Happy Summer! Dance residency students from PS 382 in the Bronx, led by teaching artist Yvette Martinez, were invited to a private meeting with Supreme Court Justice and Bronx native Justice Sonia Sotomayor Before their […]
…manent collections of the University of Southern Maine and Sloan Kettering Memorial Hospital, numerous private collections, and the library collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Bryn Mawr College and Rutgers University. Donna has been on the ArtsConnection roster since 1998. In her practice as a teaching artist, she has worked with students of all ages teaching […]
…he civil rights movement with a choreographed piece set to John Legend and Common’s powerful song Glory Fourth and Fifth grade students presented a moving piece reflecting their study on water to Lindsey Stirling’s angelic sounds of Assassin’s Creed Council Member Mendez addressing the students, staff and parents of The Earth School COLLEGE & […]
…stic process through which they imagine, improvise, reflect and improvise again. Improvisation gives the students the experience of creating and exploring new movement language freely and incorporating new ideas from their peers. Week 8 Choreography Live in the Neighborhood; A Performance with A Dance Workshop for Boys Before they start to choreograph, students visit Rod […]
…udents to discover their own life’s work through concentration, effort and commitment. Like the classroom teacher, teaching artists respect their students and meet them at their levels of skills, knowledge, ability and understanding. Teaching artists help students to experience the joy of learning in and through the arts. At ArtsConnection, Teaching artists and classroom teachers […]
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