NEW

YORK CITY grant recipients

2008

This summer, 87 teachers from 55 New York City schools are traveling and learning, thanks to a grant from Fund for Teachers. By following their passions, these teachers will be ready when they return to the classroom to help students follow their dreams.

Agnes Y. Humphrey School for Leadership Laura Jackson — ScienceIn China, study the habitat and life-cycle of indigenous birds through coursework and fieldwork.

Jo Ann Porter — Literacy In San Francisco, take an intensive one-week course in book arts for K-8 teachers for ap-plication to literacy curriculum.

All City Leadership Academy

Melissa Alvarez — Visual/Performing ArtsStudy shadow puppet theater in Indonesia through an apprenticeship with a master puppeteer while documenting this rich artis-tic tradition.

Astor Collegiate Academy

Kim Hummel — Literature/Writing At the American School in London, partici-pate in its Shakespeare and London Theater Program for high school students to pro-totype curriculum for use in urban school settings.

Banana Kelly’s School for Learning Through Community Building

Carly Reiter — Science Explore two of Bolivia’s unique ecosystems, the High Desert and the Amazone, in order to create a curriculum on global ecosystems.

Baruch College Campus High School

Carolyn Castagna, Diana Di Rico ✦ —Literature/Writing In West Africa, study storytelling and literary traditions as vehicles for exploring identity and society.

Danielle McDonald— Visual/Performing Arts In Vietnam, investigate and document wartime perspectives, including traditional and contemporary imagery of persuasion, conflict, and healing.

Bronx High School for the Visual Arts

Mary Horgan — Literature/Writing Work on a novel as writer-in-residence at a retreat in Ireland.

Bronx International High School

Liana Maris — History/Social StudiesObserve and document the participatory role youth play in community and civicaction within the changing political climate of Caracas, Venezuela.

Bronx Latin

Katharine Cebulski — Literature/Writing Follow in the footsteps of the Buddha through India, China and Southeast Asia in order to study the links between Buddhism and the novel Siddhartha.

Bronx School of Law and Finance

Clara Brand — History/Social Studies Participate in American Classical League’s technology workshop and study classical Roman sites.

Brooklyn High School of the Arts

Peter Duncanson — Science Attend a solar panel installation seminar and adapt a hands-on alternative energy high school curriculum.

Brooklyn International High School

Scott Jackson — History/Social Studies Study the effects of the Holocaust and geno-cide on people and places in Central and Eastern Europe.

Dara Ross — Visual/Performing Arts Travel to Indonesia to learn the traditional art of Wayang Kulit shadow puppet making, storytelling and performance.

Brooklyn Preparatory High School

Erin Stark — Literacy Travel to Rome, Italy for an immersion course in Latin and collect information about an-cient Rome to create a graphic novel.

Brooklyn School for Collaborative Studies

Sarah Safford — Language/CulturalImmersion Study Spanish and Mayan culture inGuatemala and collect resources for aforeign language unit focusing on food, farming and fair trade.

Bushwick Community High School

Melissa Oliver — Other Travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to study Afro-Brazilian literature and film to enhance students’ understanding of the African Diaspora.

Bushwick School for Social Justice

Krystyna Printup — Visual/Performing ArtsWork with contemporary art collectives in documenting the use of street art as a form of social and political commentary in West-ern Europe.

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CES Vanguard High School

Brittany Lee — History/Social Studies Research the impact of modernism and secularism on the Republic of Turkey.

Hannah Russell— Language/Cultural ImmersionIn Cape Town, South Africa, learn digital photography methods to improve literacy instruction.

Jennifer Seary — History/Social Studies In Bahia, Brazil, study the slave trade and the contemporary experiences of Afro-Brazilians.

Children’s School - PS 372K

Herbert Quester— Language/Cultural Immersion In Merida, Venezuela, enroll in Global Exchange’s four-week program in Spanish language and study Venezuelan culture and political economy.

Community Health Academyof the Heights

Jessica Wood — History/Social StudiesExplore how cultural values, beliefs and as-sumptions have changed over time in Egypt.

Cypress Hills Community School - PS 89

Marla Greenwald — History/Social StudiesIn Ghana, collect information and materi-als on the history of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and West African cultures.

East Side Community High School

Mohammed Aminyar, Andrea Swenson ✦ — Social Justice Research and work with groups that sup-port GLBTQ teens in Buenos Aires and study art methods to use with our school’s Gay-Straight Alliance and the larger school community.

Desiree Borrero — Language/CulturalImmersion In an intensive Spanish speaking course, within the artistic culture of Spain, improve language skills for better communication with students and families.

Camsie Matis — Language/Mathmatics Participate in an intensive language and Mayan math cultural study and attend the 11th International Congress on Mathematics Education.

Essex Street Academy

Loren Abbate — Visual/Performing ArtsPhotograph and study Chinese culture to develop a 12-week course entitled“Cultural Comparisons: A Digital Photogra-phy Project.”

Andrew Epstein — MusicIn Brazil, study the musical styles of Samba and Maracatu with local musicians and re-search local youth percussion ensembles in order to build a similar program.

Nicole Scott — Social Justice Volunteer in Berlin with an NGO, Dropping Knowledge, and collaborate with a German high school to create a socially conscious multimedia curriculum.

Flushing International High School

Korina Chin — History/Social Studies Explore the cultural impact of the Silk Road on the development of Chinese civilization.

Global Enterprise Academy

Felisha Bell — Literacy Research and compare the relationship between the folklore of Ghana, West Africa, to the African-American folklore of the U.S. Sea Islands.

Granville T. Woods School/ PS 335

Meghan Dunn, Sojourner Greer,Cleo Jarvis, Liesl Zitman ✦— History/Social Studies In India, gather examples of oral storytelling to create and implement a school-wide oral storytelling curriculum.

Henry Street Schoolfor International Studies

Christopher Comparetto — Math Through researching sites of historical/cultural significance in Southeast Asia, inter-nationalize a course on architectureand mathematics.

High School for Public Service

Rebecca Alleva, Carolyn Feidel ✦ — Math Attend ICME-11 to participate in panel discussions on the history of Math; examine the birth places of historically significant mathematicians in Spain, Morocco, Greece, and Turkey.

Eric Dalio — Visual/Performing ArtsExplore and study the culture and music of West Africa in order draw connections to the music and history of the United States.

High School forTelecommunication Arts and Technology

Jeanine Boulay — Literature/Writing Collaborate with the Amazwi School of Media Arts in Hoedspruit, South Africa, to explore the impact of geography, culture and politics on literature.

Hillcrest High School

James Gallagher — Visual/Performing Arts Participate in a four-week digital filmmaking workshop.

International High Schoolat Kingsbridge Community College

Erika Tuttle — Visual/Performing Arts Learn traditional and contemporary tech-niques from local artists in a clay residency in Ghana.

International High Schoolat Prospect Heights

Suzannah Taylor— Language/Cultural ImmersionParticipate in a language immersion pro-gram in Panama and study various ways in which the country has experienced cultural diffusion throughout history.Kingsbridge International High School

Timothy Ross — History/Social StudiesTravel along China’s Silk Road to learn more about historic sites, artifacts and trade routes to enhance students’ Ancient China museum project

Landmark High School

Rachel Posner — Literacy Attend a conference for literacy educators in Australia and observe how their schools promote literacy for language-minority students.

Charles Roth — Math Work with a professor in Indonesia at a Math Education Conference to develop a math-focused website and observe Indonesian schools.

Manhattan Hunter Science High School

Tasche Bryant, Robyn Sperling ✦ —Language/Cultural Immersion Study minority cultures, practices and story-telling in China and Tibet to create a cross-curricular unit of study.

Marble Hill Schoolfor International Studies

Eugene Palatulan — Science Learn Spanish while participating in wildlife conservation efforts in Costa Rica and study-ing global health related issues in Mexico.

Millennium High School

Joshua Frost — History/Social Studies Conduct primary source research on the Icelandic Sagas in Reykjavik, Iceland, col-lecting raw footage for student-generated documentaries.

Sarah Petersen — Science Attend an international physics competition in Hanoi, Vietnam, for secondary students and observe science teaching practices in two types of schools.

Corey Pickering — History/Social StudiesPhotograph the art, architecture and culture in Turkey to better understand the current and historic relationship between the Muslim and non-Muslim worlds.

New Day Academy

Susan Kang, Yamile Ledesma ✦ — Science Research and volunteer in Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands for biodiveristy research and environmental conservation.

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New York City Museum School

Marina Jaffe — Literature/Writing In Brazil, research slave literature and the historical figures of Brazil’s slave resistance, and study how the topic is taught in Brazil.

P.S. 146 Brooklyn New School

Dana Dillon — History/Social Studies Host a photography workshop in Malawi, de-velop a school-to-school collaboration and study Malawian culture, gathering artifacts.P.S. 146 Brooklyn New School

Jennifer Hardy, Jonathan Hardy ✦— History/Social Studies Travel to East Africa to study the plants, animals, people and music of the grasslands in Kenya and Tanzania.

Pablo Neruda Academy for Architecture and World Studies

Erica Epstein — History/Social StudiesIn Asia, explore the Silk Road to collect primary documents and artifacts that will enhance teaching, bringing distant cultures closer to students.

PACE High School

Christina Martini — Literature/Writing Go “On the Road” across America, experi-encing and researching literary landmarks to create a school-wide Web source.

Professional Performing Arts School

Sara Pourghasemi — History/Social Studies Examine the artistic forms, usage, and con-tent of government-issued propaganda in Japan and China.

Satellite Academy High School

Beverly Andrews,Laura Marie Thompson ✦ — Social Justice Explore the music and songs that nourish and inspire Sudanese people in Khartoum with a focus on women, youth and healing.

Alice Braziller — Social Justice Explore post-apartheid South Africa by becoming a delegate with the international human rights organization Global Exchange

School for Democracy and Leadership

Barbara Condliffe ✦ — Literacy Attend the International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology in Singapore; observe classes in local schools.

School for International Studies

Dalia Angrand, Sarah Davis ✦ — Literacy In Ghana, conduct research in order to pre-pare an interdisciplinary course on the slave trade, oral tradition, and creative arts.

Elizabeth Donahue,Kerry-Anne Ryce-Paul ✦ — Science In Borneo, study the factors that influence some of the most biodiverse ecosystems in the world.

Science Skills Centerfor Science Technology and the Arts

Sharon Wexler — Literacy Teach English to children of impoverished communities with the Global Volunteer Net-work in Kolkata, India.

Shuang Wen School - PS/MS 184

Kevin Yuhas— Language/Cultural Immersion Participate in a one-month Mandarin lan-guage immersion program in Beijing and explore current Chinese mathematics educa-tion reform.

The James Baldwin School: An Expedition-ary Learning School

Christine Olson — History/Social StudiesTravel to Japan to research the sites of the World War II bombings and observe classes to learn about Japanese education methods.

Tompkins Square Middle School

Madelyn Kent— Language/Cultural Immersion Study the exiled Tibetan culture in Dharamsala, India, focusing on how the per-forming arts keep culture alive.

UA Academy for Government and Law

David Glasner — History/Social StudiesBuild connections with schools in South Af-rica to share best practices and to enhance global history curricula.

Upper Caroll/MS 447 Math & Science Exploratory School

Kristel Farrand — Visual/Performing Arts In Italy, study Renaissance and Medieval art focused on the links between mathematics and art.

Kristen Shuart ✦ — Math In Japanese middle and high school class-rooms, study problem-solving approachesto teaching mathematics.

Urban Assembly Academyfor History & Citizenship for Young Men

Delphine Fawundu-Buford ✦— Literature/Writing Research historical and contemporaryGhanain culture.

Urban Assembly School for Law & Justice

Elias Smith ✦ — MathIn Japanese middle-school and high-school classrooms, study problem-solving ap-proaches to teaching mathematics.

Matthew Fleck ✦ — Literacy Attend the International Conference on Teaching and Learning with Technology in Singapore and observe local classes.

Joshua Lupher — Social Justice/HistoryIn Vietnam, research the history of the Viet-nam War and its present-day impacts.

Young Women’s Leadership School

Tamara Acoba, Kathy Elwood ✦ — Science Explore the Namibian Desert environment to learn sustainable ways of living for both animals and humans.

Kendra Din, Michael Sweiven ✦— History/Social Studies In Hiroshima and Nagasaki, study the drop-ping of the atomic bomb and meet with survivors.

Young Women’s Leadership Schoo| Astoria

Allison Harkavy — Visual/Performing Arts Observe, explore and participate in a traditional summer ceramic workshop and homestay program in Tokoname, Japan.

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