Priority3:Integrate Arts

Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School

Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School

At Brooklyn Community Arts & Media High School (BCAM), we prepare our students for 21st century academic, creative, and professional success. Through an art, media, and technology-enriched academic curriculum emphasizing community collaboration...

Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music

Celia Cruz Bronx High School of Music

The Celia Cruz High School of Music, a Magnet school, will provide a high quality music program with strong academic courses in a safe and nurturing environment for New York City youth who wish to explore and expand their musicianship. Through music, students will use their mind, hands, heart and soul...

Lower East Side Preparatory High School

Lower East Side Preparatory High School

Lower East Side Preparatory High School boasts a safe, supportive, and technology-rich environment that motivates all students to succeed. With a renowned ESL/transitional bilingual program in Spanish and Chinese, and a variety of enrichment, AP, Regents prep, and extended day courses, LESP sends more than 80% of their graduates to college.

Lower Manhattan Arts Academy

Lower Manhattan Arts Academy

The Lower Manhattan Arts Academy (LoMA) is a small, supportive, multicultural school where the focus is on academic excellence through the arts. Every aspect of LoMA’s design, structure and practice supports its students’ intellectual, emotional and cultural development with the ultimate goal of seeing that he or she gets into and succeeds in a four-year college. As an arts school, the visual and performing arts are integral to every student’s day in three ways...

Professional Performing Arts School

Professional Performing Arts School

Professional Performing Arts School (PPAS) is committed to nurturing each student's passion for the performing arts and thirst for knowledge by providing a safe, supportive community that inspires lifelong learning and a commitment to social change...

Urban Assembly School for Law & Justice

Urban Assembly School for Law & Justice

The Urban Assembly School for Law & Justice (SLJ) is a small, public high school located in downtown Brooklyn. Our mission is to prepare our students, many of whom come from underserved communities around the borough and will be the first in their family to attend college, for success in college and career...


Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts

Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts

The Urban Assembly School for the Performing Arts (UASPA) aims to sustain a challenging college-preparatory curriculum that infuses the performing Arts into all aspects of the academic experience. By using the Arts as a teaching tool and providing students with the means... 

Urban Assembly School of Design & Construction

Urban Assembly School of Design & Construction

The School of Design and Construction is a high school in Manhattan. We opened in September 2004 with an initial class of 100 ninth graders. Our school has an architecture theme, a college preparatory curriculum, and powerful partnerships with organizations... 

Victory Collegiate High School

Victory Collegiate High School

Contact Information

Website: https://www.victorycollegiate.org/

Principal: Claubentz Diejuste- 

Additional ETA Contact: Kerry-Ann Elliott, Assistant Principal- 

Four-Year Plan Goals

Goal One: To integrate the arts across academics to support students' varied learning styles, intellectual risk taking, and engagement in interdisciplinary thinking.

Goal Two: To revive and equip the campus music room through capital and equipment investments. 

Approach

Goal One: The work starts by cultivating buy-in and shared expectations for arts integration via PD for the full faculty. Then, one academic department at a time works closely with guest artists to develop arts-integrated lessons or units through residencies, co-planning and -teaching, and curriculum documentation. The work scales up to a new department each year, with teachers sharing out at regular staff development sessions their progress and challenges along the way.

Goal Two: Scale up year to year the non-consumable investments in the music room to make it a fully equipped, modern music education space. The classroom and its adjoining practice rooms and storage areas have not been used in the 15 years since the original campus school closed. The school will invest in keyboards and band instruments, secure storage, and recording and production equipment, all of which will support curricula that the music teacher is already well-poised to teach.

Arts Partnerships

Goal One: Abrons Arts Center

Outcome

Goal One: Teachers will have new tools and strategies to engage learners in diverse, arts-rich ways. Students will have multiple access points in their academic learning and in developing their individual voices and opinions on varied topics.

Goal Two: We want to give students access to a renovated and equipped music room so they have new modes for self-expression and creative risk-taking. It will give students an opportunity to care for and maintain a part of their community.

Four-Year Plan 2015-2019.