Region 9: Bronx, Manhattan
Currently Funded Schools

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

PS
220 X: Mott Haven Village School in the Bronx, NY
Principal: Michele
Kahn
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with DreamYard
Drama Project and Bank Street College of Education

PS 220 X was founded
seven years ago on principles that make for a successful educational
environment, including a talented and dedicated staff, and a strong
standards-based instructional program that emphasizes science and
the arts. Its partnership with DreamYard Drama Project and Bank
Street College of Education will impact school culture by building
arts traditions, supporting effective collaborations and by substantively
including families in the arts education process. The sixth grade
musical, kindergarten through third grade dance and choral concert,
fourth and fifth grade playwrights festivals, and the seventh and
eighth grade arts companies are serving as the focal points for
its program. These curriculum-based projects are developed by teacher/artist
teams and are planned collaboratively by grade clusters every week.

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MS
131 M: Dr. Sun Yat Sen School in New York, NY
Principal: Jane
Lehrach
Amount Funded: $65,000
Funding Period: Two Years

Partnering with Working
Playground

MS 131 M is a Title I
school located in the Chinatown area of the Lower East Side. Its
goal is to strengthen the academic achievement of students, particularly
those with disabilities as well as English Language Learners. Partnering
with Working Playground, students, parents, faculty, staff and administration
work together on an integrated arts curriculum that uses an inquiry
approach to project-based learning. Sixth grade classes use visual
art to explore New York City neighborhoods. Seventh grade classes
gain knowledge in social studies by studying legends, oral histories
and Native American folktales with a theater instructor. Two eighth
grade classes work with a filmmaker to explore immigration in New
York. Students also connect their hands-on learning experiences
of New York City to a greater historical context through thematically
relevant off-site field trips. The partnership also implements a
"Parents As Creators" component that will positively influence parents’
attitudes towards arts instruction.

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PS
142 M: The Amalia Castro School in New York, NY
Principal: Zulma
Candelario
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Mark
DeGarmo and Dancers

PS 142 M is a barrier-free
building located on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Its program seeks
to coordinate existing music, visual arts and drama programs into
a sequential, fully-integrated arts program throughout all grade
levels for students and their families. Mark DeGarmo and Dancers
is providing residencies, professional development and performances
to increase the literacy skills of students by using dramatic arts
as an alternative methodology.

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PS
146 M: Anna Short School in New York, NY

Principal: Laura
Silver
Amount Funded: $65,000
Funding Period: Two Years

Partnering with 92nd
Street Y

PS 146 M is a barrier-free
school in East Harlem. In collaboration with its long-term partner,
the 92nd Street Y, PS 146 M seeks to create "Storytellers Workshop",
an immersion program for the fourth grade that incorporates theater
improvisation, story-writing, and dramatic storytelling. Through
this program, PS 146 M seeks to pilot alternative teaching methods
that bolster student achievement and strengthen the presence of
the arts in the school. Using the concept of creative storytelling,
the program aligns arts and literacy curricula with theater improvisation,
creative story writing, and dramatic storytelling.

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PS
188 M: The Island School in New York, NY
Principal: Barbara
Slatin

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

Partnering with Third
Street Music School Settlement

PS 188 M is a Title I
school located in Manhattan’s Lower East Side dedicated to nurturing
each child’s talents in the context of a multiple intelligences
approach to academics. PS 188 M’s partnership builds on an existing
relationship with its cultural partner, Third Street Music School
Settlement. Its goal is to expand the school’s music, dance and
art initiatives into a comprehensive, articulated, standards-based
curriculum that is linked and infused into its interdisciplinary
curricula.

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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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MS
255 M: The Salk School of Science in New York, NY

Principal: Rhonda
Perry
Amount Funded: $65,000
Funding Period: Two Years

Partnering with New
York University/Tisch School of the Arts Drama Department

This partnership is a
collaboration between MS 255 M, a small middle school in New York
City and the New York University Tisch School of the Arts (NYUTSA).
Students enrolled in the community-based theater class at NYU, as
well as parents and professional artists, will work with classroom
teachers at MS 255 M to enrich the school’s existing humanities
units and create a community-based theater program that involves
the entire community. In addition to the work of aligning the school’s
art program, the school seeks to expose students to career opportunities
in the arts and create an after-school, community-based theater
program. The program culminates in the creation of an original play,
from script-writing to production, to be presented for the school
and NYU communities.

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Seward
Park High School M in New York, NY
Principal: Jayne
Godlewski

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

Partnering with Henry
Street Settlement

Seward Park High School
M is a comprehensive academic high school located in the Lower East
Side of Manhattan. Seward Park seeks to create a humanities curriculum
with a range of stimulating, standards-based activities in student-centered
learning environments that integrate the visual and dramatic arts
with english language arts and social studies. Henry Street Settlement’s
arts educators work with staff to develop interdisciplinary activities,
projects, and curriculum guides, in addition to providing ongoing
hands-on workshops for Seward Park students.

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Public
School Repertory Academy M in New York, NY
Principal: Michael
Mehmet
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Roundabout
Theatre Company

Public School Repertory
M (PSRC) is an alternative high school dedicated to providing comprehensive
instruction in the performing arts. Its program expands its current
project with the Roundabout Theatre Company to include more targeted
professional development in an effort to build the artistic capacity
of the PSRC staff and forge a stronger link between the performing
arts, academics and extended day programs.

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Humanities
Prepartory Academy M in New York, NY

Principal: Vincent
Brevetti
Amount Funded: $100,000
Funding Period: Three Years

Partnering with Sackler
Center for Arts Education at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Kitchen, and National
Center for the Restructuring of Education, Schools and Teaching

Humanities Preparatory
Academy M is an alternative high school located in the Chelsea neighborhood
of Manhattan with the special mission to enroll transfer students
who have been truant or have underachieved in other, larger high
schools. Its program aims to develop curriculum in arts-based courses,
interdisciplinary courses and through its "Advisory" course; focus
professional development around pedagogical approaches that integrate
the arts throughout the entire curriculum; and, collaborate with
its partners to provide services that will deepen and broaden students’
artistic understanding and skills.

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