Bard College and Red Hook CSD, Bard HS Early College & Kingston High School, Manhattan Last Updated 12/22/2009
Member of the Hudson Valley & Capital District RLLN
Cultural Organization Contacts
Ann Gabler , Arts in Education Coordinator
Bard College
PO Box 5000
Music Conservatory
Annandale, NY 12504
Phone: 845-758-7866
Fax: 845-758-7440
Email: gabler@bard.edu
Website: www.bard.edu

Raymond Peterson, Principal
Bard High School Early College
525 East Houston Street
New York, NY 10002
Phone: (212) 253-1847
Email: peterson@bard.edu


School Partner Contact
Marie Sturges, Assistant to Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction
Red Hook Central School District
7401 S. Broadway
Red Hook, NY 12571
Phone: (845) 758-2241 x4715
Email: msturges@rhcsd.org

Red Hook Central School
Superintendent: Paul Finch


Images: 		Project Description:
Our ESP project seeks to develop closer collaborations among Bard College, professional teaching artists in the performing arts, and the students and teachers of the Red Hook Central School and Bard High School Early College in NYC, by implementing core residencies in classrooms, supplemented by theater, music, and dance performances and workshops at Bard. Teaching artists, Bard faculty, and Bard student interns have established a creative "laboratory" for new approaches and classroom practices designed to help students meet the Learning Standards in the Arts and in other academic areas.

Dissemination of the Bard/Red Hook High School residency model with Epic Theatre Center is now in place at Bard High School Early College in New York City. These partner programs with Epic involve the 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grades. Students from Bard High School and the Red Hook High School view the same professional productions by Epic in Off Broadway theatres, work with artists from the theater company in their classrooms prior to the performances and during subsequent workshops back at school. Students and faculty at all three schools participate in workshops and related projects throughout the year. More 500 students, 20 teachers, and 25 teaching artists are now directly involved in the dissemination components.

Achievements:

  • Working with teachers to develop and implement new theater curricula to meet the New York State Learning Standards in theater arts.
  • Making greater use of each schools' technology infrastructure for research, documenting projects, disseminating the results to parents and the community through the web site and ETSL.
  • Increasing teacher capacity through prof. dev't workshops; promoting familiarity with Learning Standards and new methods for integrating the performing arts, and evaluating the results.
  • Providing opportunities for teachers to develop partnerships with artists and to address difficult issues through the arts, i.e., building community, and promoting collaborative learning, critical thinking, awareness and understanding of other cultures and issues of diversity.
  • Completed and published an ETSL with teaching artist Susan Griss and two elementary school teachers, Julie Meier and Amanda Hummel, to highlight a project on creative movement and literacy skills.