Region 2: Bronx
Currently Funded Schools

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

P
10 X in the Bronx, NY
Principal: Barbara
Hanson
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Marquis
Studios

P 10 X is a multi-site
school that serves students with various disabilities. Currently,
arts education consists of classes taught by on-site arts specialists
and is complemented by residencies from outside organizations, when
funding is available. Through circus arts and dance provided by
its partner, Marquis Studios, P 10 X hopes to further develop the
arts as part of its core curriculum. Integrated arts residencies
and staff development will enable teachers to provide integrated
arts curricula and provide tools to reinforce positive behavior
in students.

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Bronx
High School of Visual Arts 418 X in the Bronx, NY

Principal: George
York
Amount Funded: $65,000
Funding Period: Two Years

Partnering with Bronx
Museum of the Arts and Creative Arts Team

The Bronx High School
of Visual Arts X (BHSVA) opened in 2002 at the Christopher Columbus
Campus on Pelham Parkway as part of the New Visions for Public Schools
initiative. Its partnership with the Bronx Museum of the Arts and
the Creative Arts Team involves students, faculty and parents in
creating and presenting works of visual and dramatic arts. Students
begin with a foundation in the basics of both disciplines and progress
to the creation of art works for public presentation. Students are
responsible not only for originating the content of work but for
presenting and interpreting it to the larger school community. The
goal for the partnership is to introduce all members of the school
community to ways of expanding their artistic expression, practices,
and instructional methodologies so that they become a part of the
tradition of the school’s involvement in the arts.

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Fannie
Lou Hamer Freedom High School 682 X in the Bronx, NY

Principal: Nancy
Mann

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

Partnering with Studio
Museum in Harlem and Bronx River Arts Center

Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom
High School X is a small portfolio graduation high school focused
on literacy, critical thinking and student engagement. Its program
seeks to provide every student with an opportunity to have rich
experiences with the Humanities and Math/Science curriculum. Its
partnership with Studio Museum in Harlem and the Bronx River Arts
Center builds on the existing art curricula in the eleventh and
twelfth grades by focusing on developing interdisciplinary arts
curriculum for the ninth and tenth grades. The program also supports
the development of a community service concentration in the arts,
helping reduce the cultural isolation of Fannie Lou Hamer students
by encouraging teachers and students to be citizens of the city.

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Bronx
Charter School for the Arts X in the Bronx, NY

Principal: Xanthe
Jory

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

Partnering with Learning
through an Expanded Arts Program (LEAP) and Lincoln Center
Institute for the Arts in Education (LCI)

Bronx Charter School
for the Arts X (BCSA) is an elementary school located in the Hunts
Point section of the Bronx that was founded on the belief that arts
education is a catalyst for the academic achievement and social
success of all students. In partnership with LCI and LEAP, BCSA’s
program refines the overall alignment of the school’s delivery of
arts education by expanding residencies to include collaborative
planning time for all key stakeholders. During the program, LEAP
provides three annual residencies for students that address BCSA’s
first category of arts benchmarks, "Creating Art". LCI provides
two full-scale residencies addressing BCSA’s second and third benchmarks,
"Interpreting and Analyzing Art" and "Cultural and Historical Dimensions
of Art". In addition, the partnership program provides extensive
professional development for staff and representatives from both
cultural partners. These professional development offerings focus
on the collaborative planning processes, the actual planning of
model units, instruction in arts content, and sessions for reflection
and evaluation.

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