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Literary Savages Get Real
As soon as I walked into my classroom with my mentors at New Directions Secondary School, I was bombarded with whoops and hollers as if I...
Courtney Luk
Feb 26, 20193 min read


Great Expectations
Reacclimating to a classroom setting can be challenging, especially if you haven’t been in a classroom in a while. As a new Teaching...
Benji Hom, TAP 2018-19
Feb 5, 20193 min read


Abbie Hebein, Visual Artist
Abbie Hebein is a visual artist, creative organizer and exhibition maker. She studied Art History at Lewis and Clark College in Portland,...
Katie Rainey
May 18, 20182 min read


Classroom Curve Balls (Or the Proper Care and Feeding of Lesson Plans)
Adapt or perish. H.G. Wells was talking about evolution when he coined that, but it can as easily be applied to teaching artistry. It’s...
Avi Glickstein, TAP 2017-18
Mar 26, 20183 min read


We're All Just Winging It!
As part of the Teaching Artist Project (TAP) training, I have been assigned to an internship at PS 171 in Astoria, Queens, assisting two...
Leigh Beaulieu, TAP 2017-18
Mar 20, 20183 min read


Capturing New York City in an Astoria Classroom
When you think of New York City, what visual comes to mind? Towering buildings lined along a coast flanked by long, winding bridges,...
Meher Manda, TAP 2017-18
Mar 13, 20183 min read


What is Third Grade?
When I first signed up for the residency in Ms. Ferandino’s third grade class, I wasn’t quite sure what to expect. I’d had some limited...
Jean-Luc Fontaine, TAP 2017-18
Mar 5, 20183 min read


Zooming In & Acts of Kindness
Located on a quiet corner in the Williamsburg area of Brooklyn, P.S. 84 Jose De Diego School’s facade displayed a handsome mural as...
Dominic Bradley, TAP 2017-18
Feb 26, 20182 min read


Poe-etry, Goosebumps & Silence as Thick as a Heartbeat
It may take a village to raise a child. To get a classroom into poetry, it takes artists. P.S 279 is named for Captain Manuel Rivera,...
Seánan Forbes, TAP 2017-18
Jan 22, 20182 min read


Internships, Secret Ingredients & Pigs Who Save the City
I recently started the Teaching Artist Project (TAP) at Community-Word Project. In addition to immersive seminars with other...
Cayenne Douglass, TAP 2017-18
Dec 20, 20174 min read
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