NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

With support from the U.S. Department of Education, NYC-ARTS created a working model for gathering and delivering curriculum and lesson plan material from cultural organizations for use by teachers in the public schools.

Lesson plans created by the education departments of cultural institutions are often a central component to those groups' education programs but are available only to the teachers who work with a particular organization and are not shared between cultural groups as reference resources. Working with a diverse but small group of leading institutions—the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, American Ballet Theatre and the World Monuments Fund— NYC-ARTS' goal was to plan and implement a method for collecting lesson plans and overarching curriculums by establishing a template for groups of any discipline to use.

Our goal was to create a bridge between teachers in the schools and the cultural organizations with these resources, to develop a tool where teachers could have ready access to hundreds if not thousands of lessons that they could utilize in their own teaching.  We also hope to facilitate a dialogue between the schools and their partner cultural organizations so that the schools can use educational requirements as a standard for evaluating and shaping cultural services and the cultural organizations can be creative in program design.

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