Region 10: Manhattan
Currently Funded Schools

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

IS
143 M: Eleanor Roosevelt School in New York, NY

Principal: Phyllis
Casolaro Williams
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Young
Audiences/New York

IS 143 M is a Title I
corrective action school in the Washington Heights area of Manhattan.
IS 143 M seeks to supplement and expand its current arts program
by providing both skills-based arts instruction and an integrated
arts curriculum in dance and drama using three grade-specific themes
that correspond with NYC and NYS social studies standards. Students
participate in book clubs, film festivals and ten week intensive
studies as they consider these themes. IS 143 M works with its partnering
organization, Young Audiences/New York, to provide professional
development to facilitate sustainability in a collective effort
to foster an increased sense of school community.

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PS
163 M: Alfred E. Smith School in New York, NY
Principal: Virginia
Pepe
Amount Funded: $100,000

Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum and Learning by Design: NY

PS 163 M is a Title I
school with a strong commitment to dual-language education and serving
children with special needs in the least restrictive environments.
Based on the theme "Building Bridges: From Self to City," its partnership
with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Learning by Design: NY
enhances the role of visual arts and visual thinking in the school.
PS 163 M seeks to embed the arts in daily curriculum and enhance
collaborative work among and across all grade levels and between
the school and its community.

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P
226 M in New York, NY
Principal: Marilyn
Kress
Amount Funded: $65,000

Funding Period: Two Years

Partnering with Learning
by Design: NY

P 226 M is a multi-site
kindergarten through twelfth grade special education school that
primarily serves students with autism between the ages of three
and twenty-one. Students from all over Manhattan are bused to one
of five P 226 M sites, a fact that is reflected by the diversity
found in classroom populations. The goal of their partnership with
Learning by Design: NY is to boost the existing arts program by
creating a unified arts theme at all five sites and to use that
theme to integrate further core curriculum and learning standards
into the arts. Students are led in residencies of model-making,
guided exploration of school neighborhoods, and MiniCAD computer
programs. The program aims to allow students to explore the elements
of architectural design, understand school communities, and create
their own communities.

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