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- TADA Theater for Youth
- Learning-By-Design
- Salvadori Center (Empire State Partnership for the Arts)
- The Center for Arts Education (Parents As Arts Partners)
- Latin American Cultural Center of Queens
- The Noguchi Museum
- The Metropolitan Opera Guild
- Partners for Arts Ed, School Arts Program, NYSCA
- Performing Arts Center of NY (PACONY)
- Queens Council on the Arts
- Queens Theater in the Park
TADA residencies: Musical Theater, Spanish Program, Song-writing
Musical theater professionals come into the 2nd-7th grade classrooms and teach musical theater skills to
explore curriculum, social issues, or song-writing. In the fall of 2006 we used TADA Musical Theater in our
Spanish language classes. In collaboration with TADA we have developed a school-wide, reproducible
approach to our new History Alive!© curriculum that has students creating skits and staged musical
numbers based around the social studies themes from each class. It has been funded by New York
Foundation for the Arts, Queens Council on the Arts and the SAP/NYSCA regrant program. 2002-2006.
Curtain Up!
Based on a program offered by our Annenberg partner CAP 21 called “Camp Broadway”, Curtain Up! is our
own version of the musical theater immersion for high schoolers. Musical theater professionals spend 5
consecutive days in the school, 8:30-3:10 every day, teaching 25 high-school kids (mostly 11th grade) a
miniature version of a well-known Broadway musical. The kids perform several fully-staged songs from the
musical and work with NYU theater majors as mentors. Since the Annenberg grant ended with have
funded this program through a new organization called Arts For All and Children With Challenges,
supplemented by a private foundation that wishes to remain anonymous. HSBC Community Bank also
contributed in 2005. 1998-2006.
Learning By Design
Originally LBD was one of our Annenberg partners, and we have continued the relationship with one of the
teaching architects, Yves Roger, hiring him directly to go into our K-3 classrooms. He uses the world of
design and engineering to reinforce the concepts of geometry. By transforming two-dimensional shapes
into three-dimensional volumes students reinforce the concepts they learn in math class in imaginative,
creative ways. Funded by Annenberg from 1998-2001, our school fund has been paying for this program
from 2002-2006. We would like to expand it and possibly combine it with the Salvadori Middle-School
Engineering Program.
Salvadori Middle-School Engineering Program
The Salvadori Center and TRCS have collaborated since 1998, when two experienced Salvadori teachers
joined the staff of what was then the Renaissance School in District 30. The idea was, as much as
possible, to teach traditional subjects through the study of the geography, history, technology, economics,
culture, built environment and peoples of New York City. Each year, Salvadori architect-educator Janny
Gédéon collaborates with selected grades and teachers to implement project-based activities related to
this theme and other studies. This program has been funded by a variety of foundations, from Chase
Active Learning grants to the NYSCA Empire State grant in 2004. 1999-2006.
The Jazz Project at The Colden Center for the Performing Arts
The Colden Center at Queens College has offered a Jazz residency program for our high school jazz band
for the last three years. In-school jazz clinics are offered in the early spring, lecture demonstrations are
offered and in the spring a concert on the main stage of the Colden Center features all the bands
participating in the residency. In the spring of 2006 we got a grant from Queens Council on the Arts to
expand the program to include curricular tie-ins for an 8th grade study of the Harlem Renaissance. The
teaching artists will work with the 8th grade band this year. 2000-2006.
Latin American Cultural Center of Queens (“LACCQ”)
Provides a free after-school art program at TRCS called “Career in the Visual Arts Program” for 3rd-6th
grades. 2000-2005. In January of 2005 we were awarded a “Parents as Arts Partners” grant from the
Center for Arts Education to fund a Crafts Fair Workshop that mirrors the middle school social-studies and
fine arts curriculum links. Our students chose a particular craft or trade to research and develop in their art
classes and document the process in their humanities classes. The Parent Workshop Series allowed
parents to create the same crafts chosen by the students: Jewelry, Pottery, Sewing (Quilting and Clothing
Design), Architecture and Illustrated Storytelling. The workshops were led by artists from LACCQ,
Salvadori, and Magic-Box Video, Inc.
The Metropolitan Opera Guild
Sponsors an action research project to study how to create a successful, unique to our school, “Opera in
the Classroom” curriculum. Our instrumental music teacher and our 6th grade humanities teacher are
teaming up to guide the 6th graders in creating an original opera. The Opera Guild provides professional
development workshops, action research activities, a summer institute for teachers and administrators.
This project is funded by NYSCA Empire State grants program. As an Empire State grant recipient TRCS
was eligible to be asked to join the research project.
Queens Theater in the Park
Provides various in-school arts assemblies and workshops through a grant from Community Board 3 during
the 2004-2005 school year, and in February of 2006 we formed a partnership with QTIP to provide theater
artists who will work with our 9th grade drama majors to produce a cabaret that will be performed at QTIP
in April. This partnership is funded by Citigroup Foundation. 2004-2006
The Noguchi Museum; The Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum
Has begun a partnership with TRCS through the “Parents As Arts Partners” program funded by the NYC
Center For Arts Education. During the spring of 2006 The Noguchi Museum teaching artists will conduct 9 2-
hour inter-active workshops at TRCS on the nature of art-making and community. They will begin by trying
to define sculpture by thinking about the process of creating sculpture, and then will move to considering
what sculpture can mean to a community. There will be a culminating event as well as a family day at the
museum. 2006
Parents As Arts Partners
Program that engages parents in the arts programming given to their children during the school day, in an
effort to inform parents of the importance of the arts in their child’s education. The Center For Arts
Education’s Parents as Arts Partners grant program awarded us funding for the following arts events:
“Meet Our Arts Partners” in 1998; “NYC Maritime History Workshops at The South Street Seaport, with The
Folk Music Society of NY”, 1999; “I’m Talking, But You’re Not Listening, with TOP Lab”, 2000; “Camp
Broadway For YOU, with CAP 21” in 2001, and the “Crafts Fair Workshop Series” with LACCQ in 2005, and
art-making workshops with The Noguchi Museum in 2006. This program is funded by the New York City
Center for Arts Education.
Performing Arts Center of New York
Provides teachers for private, for-fee, private and group music lessons at TRCS as a convenience for
parents and enrichment for their children.
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