Who TAP?
This person is both the Director of the Teaching Artist Project and a CWP Teaching Artist who specializes in creative writing.
Who is Katie Rainey?
The number of trainees that participate in the program every year.
What is 30 to 35?
These CWP Teaching Artists oversee TAP Trainees in their classrooms.
What are TAP Mentors?
The number of years the TAP program has been in existence.
What is 21 years?
The months that the TAP programs runs.
What is October to May?
This TAP Lead Facilitator is also an alum of the program and graduated in 2012. Additionally, they have an exhibition currently on display in the Bronx called, "Anxiously Awaiting Your Return: A Love Letter Altar to Children Detained Across Bridges & Boroughs".
Who is Karla Robinson?
The three different tracks a trainee can participate in TAP in, which relates to their level of experience teaching.
What is Advanced, New & Beginning, and Student?
This CWP Teaching Artist handles all of the paperwork and logistics of the TAP Trainee(s) in their classroom.
What is the TAP Liaison?
The former name of the program and the year in which it was rebranded to "Teaching Artist Project".
What is the "Teaching Artist Training & Internship Program" and 2017?
Friends of CWP Teaching Artists receive this if they are accepted into the TAP program.
What is a $100 discount on tuition?
This TAP Facilitator hails from Chicago, loves all things avocados, and ran their own organization called MassLeap in Boston, which is a youth poetry and social justice organization dedicated to building and supporting spaces for youth to experience the transformative power of their own voices in community with one another.
Who is Amanda Torres?
The range (number) of weeks that a TAP trainee will participate in a CWP Residency, depending on the track.
What is 8-15?
TAP Mentors are required to include roles for their TAP trainees in this weekly document.
What is a lesson plan?
This specialized training that occurs in July has a focus on teaching for social justice. CWP Teaching Artists are invited to attend at no fee, if they wish to participate.
What is Summer Institute?
This group of arts education organizations collaborates on specific professional developments, panels, and events in the spring for TAP trainees, CWP Teaching Artists, and Teaching Artists across NYC, including The Arts in Education Job Fair.
What is the TAP Cohort?
This TAP Facilitator originally hails from the Philippines, their work is deeply rooted in decolonization, and is an active theatre and performance-maker in NYC.
Who is Andre Ignacio Dimapilis?
The range of required seminar/workshop hours each trainee is required to complete to graduate from TAP, which depends on what track they are placed in.
What are 70-80 seminar hours?
Trainees will collaborate with their TAP Mentors to create this and implement it in their classroom.
What is a lesson?
The number of artists that have graduated from TAP since its inception.
What is 530?
The number of organizations in the TAP Cohort this school year.
What is 17?
This TAP Facilitator has led workshops all over the world, including Guatemala, Belize, and Morocco. They are an accomplished visual artist who is taking their first steps into illustrating children's books, and have a particular focus on using the arts for healing and peace-building.
Who is Adriana Guzmán?
These four additional sessions to TAP will focus on building community amongst the trainees as well as art-making and celebrating their individual artistries.
What are the TAP Salons?
All TAP Mentors are required to attend this in November.
What is the TAP Mentor Training?
The school where CWP Founder & Executive Director, Michele Kotler, piloted the training program in its first year.
What is Sarah Lawrence College?
This is where all information regarding TAP, Summer Institute, past graduates, application information, and more can be found.
What is teachingartistproject.org?