Best Practices: A Sampling

City Lore's approach and methods are tested in schools like PS 11 and PS 84 in Queens, and PS 29 in Brooklyn. We design, implement and evaluate artist residencies, performances, staff development and parent workshops, and we assist in materials selection. Our programs are designed to support national and New York State learning standards and best practices in teaching. City Lore residencies provide hands-on arts experiences that are student-centered, experiential, inquiry-based, collaborative, and developmentally appropriate.

	Sample Teaching Strategies Our teaching artists combine their interest in the study of culture with their training in theater, dance, visual art, and music. Visit this changing sample of strategies that have engaged classroom teachers and students in self and cultural inquiry and artistic expression.
	Sample Visual Arts Residency: Chinese Lanterns and Me (visual art) Join teaching artist George Zavala and a 4th grade class at PS 11 in Woodside, Queens as they learn about Chinese Lanterns and explore their own families and communities.
	Sample Dance Residency: East Indian Immigration to North America (dance) Visit a fifth grade class in Queens as they work with a choreographer and folk dancer to trace the history of the East Indian Diaspora in North America.
	Sample Teaching Artist Workshop: "Artist Statements" One of our teaching artists, playwright John Kallas, always asked his students to write an artist statement for their production's program book. It was such a wonderful tool that we now use artist statements in all our residencies. Learn about this creative student assessment and writing tool and contribute your own ideas!
	Sample Parent Workshop: "Exploring Your Neighborhood" City Lore staff offers parent and family workshops in which parents, children, and teachers share family and personal experience stories and learn skills for documenting family and community traditions.