Region
4: Brooklyn, Queens
Currently Funded Schools

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

PS
145K: The Andrew Jackson School in Brooklyn, NY
Principal: Rosa
Escoto
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Stages
of Learning

PS 145 K is an elementary
school located in the Bushwick section of Brooklyn. Past grants,
along with Project ARTS money, have allowed PS 145 K to establish
music and visual arts programs through full-time and school-wide
cluster positions as well as extended day initiatives. Through its
partnership with Stages of Learning, this school intends to deepen
existing programs while also expanding its after-school drama program
into school-day curriculum. Using Stages of Learning to transform
classrooms into learning stages, PS 145 K’s partnership embeds theatre
arts into language arts/literacy curricula and enables students
to have a more comprehensive understanding of the material studied.

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EBC
Bushwick High School K in Brooklyn, NY
Principal: Victor
Capellan

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

Partnering with Irondale
Ensemble Project

EBC Bushwick High School is located in the Bushwick community of
Brooklyn and was founded as a collaborative effort between the New
York City Department of Education and East Brooklyn Congregations.
Its partnership with Irondale Ensemble Project, a Brooklyn-based
professional theater company, revolves around an annual Community
Action Event, a multi-day festival for the neighborhood, focused
on a theme of specific concern. During the partnership, all students
study curriculum units related to the annual theme and learn through
an arts project or arts-based pedagogy. "Guerilla Theater"
troupes developed through the program present original "street
theater" pieces allowing students to interact with the community
and engender new thoughts and actions on the chosen issue.

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PS
11 Q: Kathryn M. Phelan in Woodside, NY
Principal: Anna
Poiatsianis
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with CityLore

PS 11 Q is an elementary school located in the residential/commercial
area of Woodside, Queens. The primary mission of "Exploring
Communities and Cultures Through the Arts," an arts in education
program developed by PS 11 Q and its partner, CityLore, is to strengthen
ties between the school and its community by integrating the culture
of the community into the curriculum. Its arts education program
is designed to provide skill-based instruction in visual arts, music,
theatre and dance by infusing the arts into the social studies curriculum.
CityLore teaching residencies are integrated into a thematic unit
in social studies and teaching artists serve as both teachers and
learners.

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PS
78 Q: The Robert F. Wagner Jr. School in Long Island City, NY
Principal: Eleftheria
Dellis
Amount Funded: $65,000
Funding Period: Two Years

Partnering with CityLore

PS 78 Q, an elementary school located in Long Island City, is partnering
with CityLore to independently present the program, "Social
Studies through the Arts". The program provides sequential
skills-based instruction in the visual and performing arts, while
enhancing literacy by integrating the arts into the social studies
curriculum in second through fifth grades. The program’s components
include long-term artist residencies, professional development,
community fieldtrips, collaborative curriculum development, and
parent and community involvement. CityLore teaching artists enhance
student understanding of traditional folk arts through an interdisciplinary
study that links cultural traditions found in their social studies
curriculum and diverse neighborhoods. Visits to local museums, neighborhood
walks, and interviews with community residents provide opportunities
to bring student explorations to life and strengthen the tie between
the school and local community.

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PS
84 Q: The Steinway School in Astoria, NY

Principal: Joan
Monroe
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with New
York Philharmonic and CityLore

PS 84 Q, the Magnet School
for Global Arts and Learning, is located in Astoria near Steinway
Street. In collaboration with the New York Philharmonic and CityLore,
PS 84 Q is developing a cumulative three-year, interdisciplinary
music and community studies program. Through the program, students
in the third, fourth, and sixth grades explore the structure, acoustic
and symbolism in orchestral music, lyrical song and acoustic urban
ecology. They then use these concepts to conduct research on the
surrounding Steinway community.

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PS
87 Q: Middle Village School in Middle Village, NY
Principal: Michael
Buckley

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

Partnering with CREATE, Learning through an Expanded Arts Program (LEAP), Brooklyn
Museum of Art (BMA), SHOWTIX, and American Folk Art
Museum

PS 87 Q is a creative, collaborative and technologically advanced
elementary school that serves a diverse student population in the
Middle Village area of Queens. Its program, "American History
through the Arts," aims to develop a comprehensive curriculum,
for pre-kindergarten through eighth grade, that is sequential and
systematically designed to enhance student performance, content
and understanding of american history and the arts. PS 87 Q’s collaborating
organizations assist in professional development through cultural
mentorships, curriculum development, classroom intervisitations
and student presentations.

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The
Frank Sinatra School of the Arts 501 Q in Long Island City,
NY

Principal: Donna
Finn
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with New
York City Opera and Battery Dance Company

Frank Sinatra School of the Arts Q is an expanding high school
focused on creating rigorous standards-based, student-centered academic
and artistic curriculum. The school seeks to align further academic
subject classrooms with the Arts Standards and to create block schedules
for integrated curriculum units. Through residencies with New York
City Opera and Battery Dance Company, its partnership provides curriculum
planning and implementation, field trips and cultivates parent participation
in the program.

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Robert
F. Wagner Jr. Secondary School for Arts & Technology in Long
Island City, NY

Principal: Bruce
Noble
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Young
Audiences/New York

Robert F. Wagner Jr. Secondary School for the Arts & Technology
Q in Long Island City is an alternative high school serving a diverse
student population in seventh through twelfth grades. The program
seeks to create a unified developmental focus between the school’s
middle and high school students via its Theater Arts Program. With
Young Audiences/New York, its program introduces middle school students
to play writing, theater arts and video production through residencies
that compliment an already thriving arts program in the high school.
Young Audiences/New York also offers one-on-one professional development
for seventh and eighth grade teachers, guidance counselors and staff
developers so they can co-lead residencies with artists and assist
students through the process.

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Academy
of American Studies 575 Q in Long Island City, NY
Principal: Ellen
Sherman
Amount Funded: $65,000
Funding Period: Two Years

Partnering with Museum
of Modern Art (MoMA), Brooklyn Museum of Art (BMA), and Wingspan Arts

The Academy of American
Studies (AAS) is a college preparatory high school, located in Long
Island City, Queens that emphasizes American history throughout
all four years. Partnering with the BMA, MoMA, and Wingspan Arts,
AAS is implementing its program, “American Identity through Time”.
The goal is to create and maintain a school gallery and performing
arts space, and to encourage a higher level of thinking by incorporating
visual and performing arts into the humanities curriculum. Through
professional development with their partnering organizations, AAS
aims to further develop the humanities curriculum and improve teachers’
ability to incorporate the arts into their classroom.

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