Region 8: Brooklyn
Currently Funded Schools

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

PS
44 K: Marcus Garvey School in Brooklyn, NY
Principal: Deborah
Knight
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Bedford
Stuyvesant Restoration Corporation Center for Arts and Culture (BSRCC) and Open Classroom Collaborative

PS 44 K is located in
the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn. Through fifth grade
theatre production classes provided by the BSRCC and third grade
puppetry residencies provided by the Open Classroom Collaborative,
PS 44 K seeks to integrate the arts into all areas of the curriculum.
Its program will help students explore theatre arts and develop
an understanding of art as a part of their everyday lives. Both
partnering organizations are also providing professional development
to build sustainability.

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MS
51 K: The William Alexander Middle School in Brooklyn, NY
Principal: Xavier
Castelli
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with New
York University’s Program in Educational Theatre and Metropolitan
Opera Guild

MS 51 K is a comprehensive
middle school located in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Its program seeks
to support teachers in creating learning experiences that integrate
the arts and core curricula based on learning standards. New York
University’s Program in Educational Theatre and the Metropolitan
Opera Guild will guide and facilitate partnerships between school-based
arts specialists and core subject teachers as they work together
to create and implement interdisciplinary curricula.

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PS
107 K: John W. Kimball Learning Center in Brooklyn, NY
Principal: Cynthia
Holton
Amount Funded: $65,000
Funding Period: Two Years

Partnering with Studio
in a School, Arts Connection, and Lincoln Center Institute
for the Arts in Education

PS 107 K, in partnership
with Studio in a School, ArtsConnection, and the Lincoln Center
Institute for the Arts in Education (LCI), has developed a comprehensive
expansion of its current arts program that provides a sequential,
skills based curriculum in four artistic disciplines (music, visual
arts, dance, and drama), coupled with extensive professional development
for classroom teachers, arts specialists and other subject area
specialists. The goal of its program is to integrate the arts into
the larger school curriculum so that the arts become an essential
form of inquiry and expression for both students and teachers. Activities
include ten-week residencies and professional development workshops
at each grade level, in-school performances, student performances,
visits to cultural institutions, and opportunities to learn about
careers in the arts.

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PS
321 K: The William Penn School in Brooklyn, NY
Principal: Elizabeth
Phillips
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Brooklyn
Museum of Art (BMA) and Together in Dance

PS 321 K is a large neighborhood
school in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Through its program, school staff
members and arts partners are jointly developing activities coordinated
with the students’ social studies themes. With BMA, students look
at art relating to those themes and then, with Together in Dance,
create dance performances.

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