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JUVENIOLE JUSTICE AND DELINQUENCY PREVENTION CONGRESSIONAL EARMARK PROGRAMS
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This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
The Long Island University's Tilles Center for the Performing Arts will continue to implement the School Partnership program in Freeport and GlenCove schools. The goal of the program is to increase academic achievement in the schools.This goal will be achieved using student-centered,constructivist learning techniques. This approach focuses on teamwork and teacher training.
The School Partnership Program provides a structured and integrated approach for arts education. It is designed to serve students in grades K-12 through the introduction and exploration of music and dance performances, theater and multi-discipline art experiences. This project will support a ten day workshop for teachers.
The program fosters a partnership between classroom teachers, arts specialists and artists, and offers a unique approach to arts education. NCA/NCF
This project provides an arts education program that exposes young people to a high level of performing and visual arts in an educational setting. A primary goal of the program is to reach students in areas where school districts are unable to include sufficient arts education in annual budgets and families are financially unable to enrich their children's lives with exposure to the arts.
Tilles Center for the Performing Arts School Partnership program is modeled on and operates in partnership with the aesthetic education program of the Lincoln Center Institute. Tilles Center offers intensive arts exploration to students regardless of prior arts experience. The program provides a structured and integrated approach to arts education for students in grades K-12 and fosters partnerships between classroom teachers, arts specialists, and artists.The performance measures Long Island University will report on will be the students increased understanding of art and improved academic performance.NCA/NCF
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PROJECT SUMMARY 2002-JS-FX-0011 S-1
The Long Island University's Tilles Center for the Performing Arts will continue to implement the School Partnership program in Freeport and GlenCove schools. The goal of the program is to increase academic achievement in the schools.This goal will be achieved using student-centered,constructivist learning techniques. This approach focuses on teamwork and teacher training.
The School Partnership Program provides a structured and integrated approach for arts education. It is designed to serve students in grades K-12 through the introduction and exploration of music and dance performances, theater and multi-discipline art experiences. This project will support a ten day workshop for teachers.
The program fosters a partnership between classroom teachers, arts specialists and artists, and offers a unique approach to arts education. NCA/NCF
