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- EIN 22-2581823
- (617) 327-8965
- 126 Payson Rd Chestnut Hill MA 02467 USA
- www.troubadour.org
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Nonprofit Overview
Causes: Arts & Culture, Humanities
Mission: Troubadour, inc. Was founded in l98l by teaching artists victor cockburn and judith steinbergh and incorporated in 1983 as a nonprofit, tax-exempt, arts education organization. Our mission is to improve student literacy and academic achievement in underserved massachusetts schools through poetry, song lyrics and prose. We empower teachers with dynamic strategies to strengthen instructional practice in the literary arts. We accomplish our mission by bringing our literacy through writing and song program and professional development workshops to schools that serve at-risk students in boston, lowell and other low-income massachusetts communities. The success of our program is founded on almost 30 years of working with urban, suburban and rural students of all backgrounds and abilities in more than 50 massachusetts districts, including boston, brookline, duxbury, framingham, lexington, lowell, newton, rochester, topsfield and worcester.
Programs: Literacy through writing and song improves student literacy and academic achievement and empowers teachers with dynamic strategies to strengthen instructional practice in the literary arts. Our experienced teaching artists worked closely with teachers, specialists, and administrators to address specific school and classroom needs and objectives. They modeled a wide range of techniques and activities that align with the massachusetts curriculum framework for english language arts and literacy and with the classroom curriculum across all grade levels, and provided support to the teachers as they integrated our methods into their own teaching practice. The program helped students of diverse backgrounds, including english language learners and those with differing abilities develop skills of observation, comprehension, problem solving, and creative self-expression, all of which are essential to effective learning and academic achievement.
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