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- EIN 13-4114145
- 212-962-3820
- 42 Broadway, 18th Floor New York NY 10004 USA
- www.communitywordproject.org
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Causes: Arts & Culture, Arts Education, Education, Primary & Elementary Schools, Secondary & High Schools
Mission: Community-Word Project (CWP) is a New York City based arts-in-education organization that inspires children in underserved communities to read, interpret and respond to their world and to become active citizens through collaborative arts residencies and teacher training programs.The Community-Word Project's goal is to give young people the life skills and safe space that they need to become active citizens. We achieve our objective through a three-pronged approach focusing on educational objectives, personal objectives and community-building. Our participants experience and learn that when we bring our voices and visions together we are more likely to be heard and to make constructive change happen in our lifetime. In CWP workshops young people develop the academic, collaborative and creative skills to bring forth their concerns and ideas to a greater public.
Programs: Arts residencies: in 2013/2014, cwp provided multidisciplinary arts residencies to 13 schools, one community-based organization and three branches of the queens public library, serving 1,690 children. We offered year-long residencies at five schools; the length of other residencies ran from seven to sixteen weeks. Each residency was led by a team of two teaching artists, assisted by two trainees from our teaching artist training program. In all of these residencies, children wrote individual and collaborative poems, developing their powers of expression and strengthening their literacy skills. Student writing was published in cwp school anthologies that were distributed to each participant to share with their family. In most of the residencies, the students created vibrant performances of their original poetry, which helped them to develop self confidence, public speaking skills, and the ability to work as a team. In four of the residency schools students also worked with a visual artist to create canvas murals featuring a communal line of poetry.
teacher artist training and internship program (tatip): last year tatip prepared 25 new teaching artists to work with at-risk students in underserved public schools. During the 25-week program, trainees attended 30 hours of seminars on subjects such as developing creative teaching tools, classroom management, creating lesson plans, and creating partnerships with classroom teachers. Trainees also interned in cwp classroom residencies, where they received valuable hands-on experience. They also attended six 2-hour debriefing sessions where they discussed issues raised during their internships. Tatip also offered an elective half-day training seminar on working with students with special needs, and on collaborative visual arts activities, collaborative theatre activities, and creative writing.
professional development workshops: cwp also offers workshops in collaborative creative expression literacy and leadership methods for teachers and after school personnel. In 2013-2014, cwp provided these workshops to approximately 90 nyc doe teachers.