Region 1: Bronx
Currently Funded Schools

Please note: Principals
named here may have changed since the grant was awarded to the school.

PS
2 X: The Morrisania School in the Bronx, NY
Principal: Mark Bailey

Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Creative
Arts Team and Arts Horizons

PS 2 X is a Title I elementary
school located in the Morrisania section of the Bronx. The partnership
at PS 2 X supports students’ need to develop literacy skills. In
kindergarten through second grades, Creative Arts Team uses drama
to address underlying emotional and verbal difficulties that inhibit
students’ literacy. In the third through fifth grades, Arts Horizons
builds on the oral literacy foundation provided by the Creative
Arts Team, using poetry and playwriting to help students master
writing skills.

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PS
79 X: The Creston School in the Bronx, NY

Principal: Vera
Mitchell

Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Learning
through an Expanded Arts Program (LEAP) and Franklin H. Williams
Caribbean Cultural Center (CCC)

PS 79 X is an elementary
school located in the Fordham-Tremont area of the Bronx. The overall
goal of its partnership is to train teachers, parents and students
to understand how the arts are all around us and embrace them as
a vehicle for expression and learning. Its program immerses teachers
in on-going professional development that strengthens their understandings
of art techniques in visual, music and performance arts so they
can utilize these techniques in curriculum development. As partners,
LEAP and the CCC, will lead this learning process and help strengthen
PS 79 X’s music and art program.

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MS
118 X: William W. Niles Middle School in the Bronx, NY

Principal: Guilia
Cox

Amount Funded: $65,000
Funding Period: Two Years

Partnering with DreamYard
Drama Project and Young Audiences/New York

MS 118 X is a comprehensive
Title I middle school located in the East Tremont section of the
Bronx. In collaboration with its partners, Young Audiences/New York
and DreamYard Drama Project, MS 118 X seeks to develop and sustain
an integrated arts education pathway for its students. During the
sixth grade, all students are exposed to four arts electives that
connect to four arts majors: fine arts; creative writing and performance
art (includes dance); vocal and instrumental music; and production
and backstage. In the seventh grade, each student chooses an art
major and completes a semester of advanced work that culminates
in a public presentation. The second semester of seventh grade is
devoted to completing an "I-Search" paper on a single real-world
career in the area of the student’s major. Building on their sixth
and seventh grade experiences, eighth graders collaborate to create
a grade-wide Arts Extravaganza that displays the student’s work
in all four arts majors through public galleries and performances.

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PS
170 X in the Bronx, NY

Principal: Elizabeth
Brodsky

Amount Funded: $65,000
Funding Period: Two Years

Partnering with Marquis
Studios

PS 170 X is a Title I
school located in the South Bronx that serves Kindergarten through
second grade. Through its partnership with Marquis Studios, PS 170
X hopes to provide a more sequential, skills-based arts curriculum
for the students, improve the quality of the arts facilities at
the school, and deepen the integration of the arts into the academic
curriculum. During puppetry, music and circus arts residencies,
teaching artists and classroom teachers co-facilitate art projects
that support the academic work of the class and provide the students
with a consistent arts curriculum. The program is supplemented with
trips to theaters, the circus, and museums.

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PS
205 X: Fiorello LaGuardia School in the Bronx, NY

Principal: Maria
Pietrosanti
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Young
Audiences/New York and Bronx Zoo

PS 205 X is located in
the Belmont area of the Bronx. Twenty percent of enrolled students
are English Language Learners and the school is experiencing an
increased enrollment of at-risk students. The school is a port of
entry for many poor and immigrant families from poverty-stricken
areas, with many students in kinship foster care (grandparents).
PS 205 X has successfully infused the arts into literacy and social
studies programs. In partnership with Young Audiences/New York and
the Bronx Zoo, it now plans to build on this success by further
developing its interdisciplinary model, PATRI (Promoting Arts Through
Residencies and Instruction), to integrate the arts into its science
and technology curricula.

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Marble
Hill High School for International Studies 477 X in the Bronx,
NY

Principal: Iris
Zucker
Amount Funded: $65,000
Funding Period: Two Years

Partnering with DreamYard
Drama Project

Created as part of the
New Visions for Public Schools initiative, Marble Hill School for
International Studies 477 X (MHSIS) is a two-year-old school located
in the northwest section of the Bronx that currently serves ninth
and tenth grades. By the 2005-2006 school year, MHSIS will serve
ninth through twelfth grades. MHSIS offers a standards-based college
preparatory curriculum with a focus on global awareness, world languages,
and international studies. Partnering with DreamYard Drama Project,
MHSIS is expanding its current arts program to provide every student
with two hours of weekly arts instruction in film, theater, dance
and the visual arts that links to the international studies curriculum.
Through a summer planning institute and weekly planning meetings,
teachers and artists will plan collaboratively to implement the
program while also further developing and refining teacher’s capabilities
to lead classes in the arts and help artists adapt to teaching MHSIS’s
diverse student population. Through the program, MHSIS aims to align
the arts instruction as it integrates the arts into the current
curriculum in the ninth and tenth grades and creates the curriculum
for the eleventh and twelfth grades. The partnership also develops
common protocols throughout the school for looking at and responding
to art.

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