Art education program secondary schools updated: spring
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Grade levels: 9 to 12 Class size: 15-20 Enrollment: 117 Ethnicity %: 3 W / 22 B / 74 H / 1 A Attendance: 85% ACADEMICS: Facing History High School is committed to offering its students--many of whom are alienated and poorly prepared for high school--a strong liberal arts education with lots of individual attention, an emphasis on moral values, and a sense of community. The school, opened in 2005 in the Park West High School complex, has an idealistic, close-knit faculty, a coherent philosophy, and a clear sense of mission. ARTS: Integrated arts curriculum, unsure if they have specialized Visual Art Teacher LAST UPDATED: December 2006 Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School / H.S. 682 1021 Jennings Street, Bronx, NY 10460 Phone: (718) 861-0521 | Fax: (718) 861-0619 Principal: Ms. Nancy Mann
LAST UPDATED: December 2006 High School of Arts, Imagination and Inquiry 122 Amsterdam Avenue New York, NY 10023 Phone: (212) 799-4064 | Fax: (212) 799-4171 Principal: Stephen Noonan No Website but helpful link at: http://www.tc.columbia.edu/news/article.htm?id=4918 according to insideschools.org: DEMOGRAPHICS: Grade levels: 9 to 12 Class size: 22-27 Enrollment: 212 Attendance: 86% What's special: Teaching artists from Lincoln Center Institute. Downside: School is housed in a windowless basement. ACADEMICS: The High School for Arts, Imagination and Inquiry offers students the chance to explore dance, music, drama, and visual arts with teaching artists from the not-for-profit Lincoln Center Institute just across the street. This new, small school, one of five in the old Martin Luther King Jr. High School building, uses the arts to engage students and enrich their lives. "We think the arts should be a strong part of a child's education, [but] we don't focus on performance or technique," said Principal Stephen Noonan, a graduate of the city's Leadership Academy, a program to train new principals, and the former assistant principal at Samuel Gompers High School in the Bronx. Rather, he said, the school strives to integrate arts into the academic curriculum and to encourage students to appreciate various art forms. For example, students began the year looking at the cube-shaped sculpture dedicated to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. on the plaza in front of the school building. In social studies, they compared the sculpture to monuments of the ancient world--such as the ziggurats of Mesopotamia. In math class, they studied the geometry of cubes and other polyhedrons and made paper cutouts that could be folded into cubes. Maxine Greene, a Teachers College professor celebrated for her work in aesthetic education--she has the title of "philosopher in residence" at the Lincoln Center Institute--works with teachers regularly. Special education: The school is committed to serving a wide range of academic abilities, and many of the students in the first class arrived with weak academic skills. About 15 percent received special education services, and 10 percent were English Language Learners. The school offers "collaborative team teaching" classes, classes that are led by two teachers, one of whom is certified in special education.
LAST UPDATED: December 2006 High School for Contemporary Arts 800 East Gun Hill Road BRONX, NY 10467 Phone: (718) 944-5610 | Fax: (718) 653-2366 Principal: Francisco Sanchez
LAST UPDATED: December 2006 * Hunter College High School 71 East 94th Street, New York, NY 10128 Phone: (212) 860-1261 | Fax: (212) 289-2209 Principal: Dr. John Mucciolo http://www.hchs.hunter.cuny.edu/ According to insideschools.org DEMOGRAPHICS: Grade levels: 7 to 12 Class size: 25 Enrollment: 1200 Ethnicity %: 50 W / 8 B / 7 H / 37 A What's special: Private school resources with public school diversity. Downside: Some kids may not be ready for the freedom and responsibility. ACADEMICS: Like Hunter College Elementary School, Hunter College High School is touted as a "laboratory" school for the study of "gifted" education, and is administered by the City University of New York. It is a highly successful, very selective, and competitive school that prepares its students for the country's most elite colleges. It's known particularly for its strength in the humanities, but it also offers high-level math and science courses. ART: Known for its strong art program, program is more traditional in its focus on the technical aspects of various media and art history. NYU student has worked with Julie Reifer in the past. Each teacher may or may not teach more grades. Visual Art Teachers: Julie Reifer (8th - 11th grade), Connie Rich (8th - 9th grade), Eve Eisenstadt (8th - 9th grade) NYU Student Comments: “Very strange emphasis on academia, strictly art history and technical skills, does not deal with social pedagogy. The cooperating teachers are supportive, but depending on which of the three teachers, do not expect to employ social pedagogy to the fullest extent.” LAST UPDATED: December 2006
345 East 15th Street NEW YORK, NY 10003 Phone: (212) 475-7972 | Fax: (212) 475-0459 Principal: Mr. John Pettinato
LAST UPDATED: December 2006 * International High School at Kingsborough Community College 755 East 100th Street Brooklyn, NY 11236 Phone: (718) 345-0854 | Fax: (718) 609-2093 Principal: Michael Soet
“It is fabulous. They are doing all the things we talk about, the real deal! The program philosophy is strong, creative, exciting and open minded. It is a great environment and a strong, democratic community.” LAST UPDATED: December 2006
351 West 18 St. New York, NY 10011 Phone: (212) 627-2812 | Fax: (212) 627-9803 Principal: Elijah Hawkes
LAST UPDATED: December 2006 H.S. 529 Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School 120 West 46th Street NEW YORK, NY 10036 Phone: (212) 391-0041 | Fax: (212) 391-1293 Principal: Mr. Edward Demeo
Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis High School for International Studies seeks to familiarize students with the business world they will encounter after graduation. All ninth graders are taught word processing and other basic computer skills indispensable for work today. Older pupils can learn about investing, take classes in marketing, or participate in programs in international business or travel and tourism. They can also join Virtual Enterprises, International, a program in which students in schools around the world establish and run simulated companies that "trade" with one another. When we visited, the enterprise in question was a software company, and students worked in a classroom set up to resemble an office. Unfortunately, many of the students we talked to didn't seem to be particularly interested in business. Some were even unaware that the business programs exist ART: Visual Art Teacher: Jacqueline Fueilcs LAST UPDATED: December 2006 * LaGuardia HS of Music & Art and Performing Arts / H.S. 485 108 Amsterdam Avenue NEW YORK, NY 10023 Phone: (212) 496-0700 | Fax: (212) 724-5748 Principal: Kim Bruno http://www.laguardiahs.org/ According to insideschools.org DEMOGRAPHICS: Grade levels: 9 to 12 Class size: 34 Enrollment: 2540 Ethnicity %: 46 W 18 B 20 H 18 A Attendance: 96% ACADEMICS: LaGuardia High School of Music and Art and Performing Arts is a highly selective, widely acclaimed school that trains students for the country's best art schools and music conservatories, as well as for conventional academic colleges and universities. The eight-story building opened in 1984 with the merger of two older schools, the High School of Music and Art and the High School of Performing Arts, made famous by the movie "Fame." Students take a regular academic course load and as well as three to four periods a day of their chosen art specialty: drama, dance, vocal music, and instrumental music or studio art, and the newest specialty, technical theater. Professional artists, including musicians from the New York Philharmonic and the New York City Opera, teach studio courses. LaGuardia is on the list of 209 schools that the chancellor exempted from the citywide uniform curriculum. ART: (according to the LaGuardia Website) The Fine Arts Department aims to promote individuality and self-motivation in art within the confines of a structured environment. During the first two years, traditional skills and disciplines are stressed. Students achieve competency in drawing from observation in rendering form and texture through line and modeling, and in using color in a variety of paint media. Elective courses are conducted in the atelier manner where individuality, self-appraisal, and self-criticism are encouraged and developed. Vocationally-oriented courses are based on fine arts, stress concept over technique and introduce careers in the field. In all courses, the process of learning to "make art" is at least as important as the outcome. Visual Art Teachers: Mrs. Ross, Mr. McCarthy, Mr. Steengler, Mr. Payne NYU Student Comments: “Lots of focus on music, dance and art. Very discipline based, there is a strict progression of classes kids must take. The teachers are not very engaged with the students, and many of the students seem unmotivated.” “This is a very traditional focus, size shape and color.” LAST UPDATED: December 2006
LAST UPDATED: December 2006 Liberty High School 250 West 18th Street NEW YORK, NY 10011 Phone: (212) 691-0934 | Fax: (212) 727-1369 Principal: Melodee A. Khristan
LAST UPDATED: December 2006 Millennium Art Academy 3000 East Tremont Avenue Bronx, NY 10461 Phone: (718) 824-0978 | Fax: (718) 824-0963 Principal: Maxine Nodel http://www.bxmaa.org/index2.htm According to NY Department of Education: DEMOGRAPHICS: Grade levels: 9 to 12 Class size: 20 Enrollment: 362 Ethnicity %: 3 W / 43 B / 50 H / 5 A Attendance: 92% ACADEMICS: The mission of the Millennium Art Academy is "to use the arts to reveal our humanity." This is achieved through a rigorously academic, artistic and award-winning intergenerational program that prepares students for the world of college, work and community. Classes are interdisciplinary and teachers work with professional artists, writers and dramatists to fully engage students intellectually, artistically, and socially. At MAA, students are taught to see that there is a common human condition and that understanding the plights of others will ultimately enable them to bend adversity around them, so that they may realize their true potential. In essence, we believe that all students enter our school with exceptional potential that can only be revealed through teacher efficacy and nurturing support. MAA students are treated as intellectually capable young adults and begin their coursework exposed to rhetorical and universal concepts/themes, as well as to the notion of what it means to take accountability for the quality of one's work. Visual Art Teachers: Sandra Forrest (sandyclare@earthlink.net), Haymee Salas-Vasquez (hsalas73@aol.com) LAST UPDATED: December 2006 Newcomers High School: Academy for New Americans / H.S. 555 28-01 41st Avenue LONG ISLAND CITY, NY 11101 Phone: (718) 937-6005 | Fax: (718) 917-6316 Principal: Mary Burke http://www.globalkids.org/Schools/leadership/newcomers.jsp According to Insideschools.org DEMOGRAPHICS: Grade levels: 9 to 12 Class size: 34 Enrollment: 1020 Ethnicity %: 11 W 3 B 63 H 24 A Attendance: 90% What's special: Friendly staff and counselors, emphasis on transition and moving ahead. Downside: Administrative staff is overburdened and everyone, it seems, is expected to fill two or three roles. ACADEMICS: Newcomers High School: Academy for New Americans is a point of entry for immigrants into the American education system. Almost half the students come from Ecuador, Colombia, or China. The most traditional of the city's dozen high schools designed to serve new immigrants, Newcomer's goal is to move students quickly to regular neighborhood high schools with English-speaking students: Those who enter in ninth grade must transfer to another school for 10th grade. (Those who enroll later may stay until they graduate.) Newcomers High School is one of 209 schools that the chancellor has exempted from the citywide uniform curriculum mandated in 2003. Students receive nine hours a week of instruction in English as a Second Language. The school also offers bilingual classes in Spanish and Chinese Directory: scmsAdmin -> uploads uploads -> Curriculum Vita uploads -> Lisa A. Suzuki Counseling Psychology Program uploads -> Curriculum Vitae Floyd Morgan Hammack scmsAdmin -> Img src= data: image/jpeg Download 209.65 Kb. Share with your friends:
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