Region 7: Brooklyn, Staten Island
Currently Funded Schools

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

PS
200 K: The Benson Elementary School in Brooklyn, NY
Principal: Sylvia
LaCerra
Amount Funded: $65,000
Funding Period: Two Years

Partnering with CityLore and The Brooklyn Museum of Art (BMA)

PS 200 K is a large elementary
school with seventy percent of students coming from immigrant families.
Its program is entitled "The Art of Storytelling in Drama, Dance,
Art and Music: Developing Expressive Language Through Observation,
Analysis and Interpretation". Through skills-based learning, students
acquire a visual and performing art vocabulary to describe and analyze
the stories of other cultures. They then research the stories of
their own communities and families and use their newly formed artistic
vocabulary to share these stories with the school community. Students
visit the BMA to compare cultural icons from various periods. Storytelling
through creative movement is explored in studies of Chinese and
Indian dance with CityLore. In addition, teachers learn how to incorporate
the storytelling through various art forms into their classroom
and curricula.

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PS
247 K in Brooklyn, NY
Principal: Kathy
LeDonni
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with New
York Philharmonic and Learning through an Expanded Arts Program
(LEAP)

PS 247 K is a Title I
elementary school with a large population of second language learners
located in the Bensonhurst area of Brooklyn. Through its partnership
with the New York Philharmonic, PS 247 K seeks to deepen and sustain
a comprehensive music program with an emphasis on integration with
technology in third through fifth grades. The partnership also works
with LEAP to develop a sustained, comprehensive kindergarten through
fifth grade drama program that integrates literature, social studies
and music.

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IS
259 K: The William McKinsley Educational Center in Brooklyn,
NY
Principal: Iris
Baum
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Symphony
Space and Creative Arts Team

IS 259 K is a Title I
multi-theme school in the Bay Ridge area of Brooklyn. IS 259 K’s
program is two-fold: First, through its partnership with Symphony
Space, teaching artists explore, "What is an American?" Students
explore diversity, cultural differences and similarities to develop
cultural awareness and acceptance. Secondly, the Creative Arts Team
integrates drama into social studies and language arts to increase
literacy skills in the sixth grade. Symphony Space provides additional
intensive experiences through its Egyptian, Roman, Asian and African
themed programs.

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High
School of Telecommunication Arts & Technology 485K in Brooklyn,
NY
Principal: Philip
Weinberg
Amount Funded: $100,000

Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Roundabout
Theatre Company

The High School of Telecommunication
Arts & Technology K (HSTAT) is an option high school located in
Brooklyn. Through Project ARTS, it has added performance arts to
the ninth grade curriculum, as well as created an interdisciplinary
science and humanities curriculum. Its partnership program seeks
to create opportunities for students to connect the process of theatre
production to study of physics. Roundabout Theatre Company exposes
students to the process of theatre-making through scenery, light,
music, sound effects and the human voice and body. Roundabout is
also training teachers in dance and music instruction to build the
school’s capacity to continue implementing and expanding the conceptual
physics and performance arts program at HSTAT.

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PS
4 R: Maurice Wollin Elementary School in Staten Island, NY
Principal: Marc
Harris
Amount Funded: $65,000
Funding Period: Two Years

Partnering with Snug
Harbor Cultural Center

PS 4 R is an elementary
school located on the South Shore of Staten Island. Working with
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, its program, entitled "Through the
Arts: Building Architects 4 the Future", infuses architecture and
design principles into the school’s kindergarten through fifth grade
curriculum by using the visual arts and dance. Its program includes
the creation of "Wollin City", a dedicated space that will remain
and evolve as students apply the architecture and design skills
they have learned to the creation of a model city built to scale.

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PS
16 R: The John J. Driscoll School in Staten Island, NY
Principal: Leonard
Mandelbaum
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Marquis
Studios

PS 16 R is a Title I,
multi-cultural, multi-lingual, urban elementary school located in
Tomkinsville, Staten Island. Its program with Marquis Studios provides
students with curriculum integration and in-depth arts workshops
in three artistic skills all centered around music/rhythm, puppetry
and creative movement. Professional development, provided by Marquis
Studios teaching artists, focuses on integrating arts learning into
the curriculum.

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PS
30 R in Staten Island, NY

Principal: Robert
Turetsky
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Snug
Harbor Cultural Center and Together in Dance

PS 30 R is located in
the heart of Staten Island. Its program, entitled "Building our
Community Through the Arts," is creating a cohesive and cumulative
experience that aligns instruction in visual arts, mathematics,
english language arts and social studies. Snug Harbor works with
the third and fifth grades on building an environment through neighborhood
walks, discussions, journal keeping and other media. The first and
second grades work with Together in Dance to examine the history
of the community through performances, journal keeping and interviews
with instructors and performers.

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P
37 R in Staten Island, NY

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

Partnering with Marquis
Studios and Learning through an Expanded Arts Program (LEAP)

PS 37 R is a District
75 self-contained Special Education school, providing educational
services to severely handicapped children. The goal of PS 37 R is
to incorporate music, movement and graphic arts into the curriculum
through professional development of staff and parents, and direct
services to the students provided by LEAP and Marquis Studios. Movement
activities provide artistic expression and allow students another
means of communicating their feelings. The New York State Learning
Standards for the Arts continue to be addressed through creating
appropriate activities linked to monthly themes in assembly programs,
classroom instruction and school-wide projects.

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PS
56 R: Louis DeSario School in Staten Island, NY
Principal: Eileen
Greenspun

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

Partnering with CREATE!, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, and Staten Island Institute
of Arts and Sciences (SIIAS)

PS 56 R is located in
the Rossville area of Staten Island’s South Shore. Through the study
of local history via the fine and performing arts, PS 56 R hopes
to encourage students to view themselves as part of a larger world.
The grant supports the creation of a "Kidseum" in the school’s four-floor
atrium that showcases the art created at the school. In partnership
with CREATE!, SIIAS, and Art Lab, staff works on curriculum development
and enrichment to provide for the sustainability of the grant.

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