Dr. Heejung An visits NRC in Paterson!

Recently, full Professor and WPU Dodge Grant Director, Dr. Heejung An visited New Roberto Clemente School in Paterson, a Dodge STEAM Grant Recipient School.

From left to right: Technology Teacher Ms. Selino, WPU PIR Betsy Golden, Dr. Heejung An, WPU STEAM PIR Triada Samaras

     Dr. An's visit focused on the Geraldine Dodge STEAM Grant at NRC adding new initiatives for the 2018-2019 academic year. This year Dr. An would like to focus on STEAM and/or Arts Integration in the Science/Art Classrooms. Dr. An envisions science and art teachers working collaboratively in a fashion that will add research data to her on-going research in this area.

From left to right: WPU PIR Betsy Golden, WPU STEAM PIR Triada Samaras, Ms. Abaza Science Teacher and Mr. Segovia, Science Teacher
     Art teacher Ms. Aramayo, Science teachers Ms. Abaza and Mr. Chase, Technology teachers Ms. Selino and WPU PIR's Triada Samaras (STEAM Art PIR) and Betsy Golden (PIR) all gathered together with Dr. An to brainstorm (see images above).
     Below:
Students proudly display their Arts Integration project, a roller coaster combining methods from both science and art, at NRC in Science Teacher Ms. Post's class.

Above:

Ms. Browne, Science Teacher at Don Bosco School (another Dodge funded STEAM School) used Art Integration (methods from both Science and Art) to teach her non-English speaking class of 8th graders (refugees from Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico) about cells.

STEAM projects at School 9!

Recently at School 9 in Paterson:

Students in 7th and 8th graders worked on making mandalas out of old CD’s. Using the concept of the circle in Hinduism and Buddhism students created radial symmetry with Mrs Sandler, PIR from William Paterson and art teacher Mrs Dailey.  

Also at School 9 in Paterson:

Students from kindergarten thru third grade worked on a group mural using recycled styrofoam and crayons. The mural is on permanent display in our art gallery.  The concepts involved using straight lines, circles and squares in a variety of designs. 

WPU College of Education Dean Amy Ginsberg visits Don Bosco Technical Academy

From left to right:

Science Teacher Ms. Browne, a WPU alum, WPU COE Dean Amy Ginsberg, WPU Art PIR Triada Samaras

Last week William Paterson University/WPU College of Education Amy Dean Ginsberg visited the Don Bosco Technical Academy in Paterson, NJ.  Don Bosco is a WPU Professional Development School as well as a Dodge STEAM grant funded school.

Above:  WPU Bulletin Board at Don Bosco

Dean Ginsberg met with School Principal Cecilia O'Toole-Frederick who spoke about the recent school progress at Don Bosco.  Also attending were Nancy Norris Bauer, Director, WPU PDS Schools, WPU PIR Robin O'Brien and WPU STEAM Art PIR Triada Samaras. She also visited several classrooms where she spoke to teachers and students of Don Bosco.

From left to right:

WPU PIR Robin O'Brien, WPU COE Dean Amy Ginsberg, WPU Art PIR Triada Samaras
in front of the Thomas Jefferson STEAM Art Project completed last year at Don Bosco

Dean Ginsberg viewed the recent student installation of the "Kindness Rocks" Project, a STEAM Art project started last year as part of the STEAM Art program inspired by the idea of Principal Cecilia O'Toole-Frederick (below images) and implemented with the art expertise of Art Teacher Ms. Kaminski and her students.

Above: Art Teacher Patty Kaminski

  

Summer Arts Integration Institute at WPU

Recently over forty teachers participated in an exciting Summer Arts Integration Institute at WPU, a two-day conference that focused on integrating art into other core subject areas. Public school teachers in all content areas were invited to this Geraldine R. Dodge funded event. Many teachers from Paterson School District attended.

Dr. Heejung An, Dodge Grant Director opened with a presentation explaining that STEAM: Science Technology Engineering Art Math is part of Arts Integration. Dr. An is interested in formally researching the impact of Arts Integration on the educational environment.

She explained:

"Arts Integration is an interdisciplinary teaching practice through which non-art and arts content is taught and assessed equitably in order to deemed students' understanding of both" (NJPSA/FEA & Dodge) (booklet pictured below)

  

In addition to the Arts Integration Guide Above, there is now a Arts Integration Think and Do Companion Workbook Available at this Link

The WPU Arts Integration Institute featured twenty proven art-integrated lessons ranging from kindergarten through 12^th grade that have been developed during the school year.

WPU Art Professors in Residence Triada Samaras and Simone Sandler gave Powerpoint presentations on Arts Integration topics as well.

A new and meaningful Memory Project: Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria

Recently Art Teacher Patty Kaminski at Don Bosco Technical Academy in Paterson and her 

students completed an arts integration project with the Memory Project: Portraits of 

Kindness featuring young children from Puerto Rico. This was especially meaningful to 

these students as several of them have close relatives in Puerto Rico who have suffered 

greatly due to Hurricane Maria. 

This Arts Integration project was created under the auspices of the 

Geraldine R. Dodge Arts Integration Grant and was supported by grant-funded Art Professor 

in Residence Triada Samaras from William Paterson University COE to create a 

collaboration between children in Paterson and children in Puerto Rico incorporating: social

studies, world language, and portraiture via the Memory Project.

The culmination is this inspiring video:

Direct Link to Video

An earlier project that Ms. Kamiski and her students did with children from the Philippines can be found here:

Memory Project Video! A gift from the Philippines to the Don Bosco Technical Academy Community!

Jan 21 2018

Students from Dodge Alumni School 29 Kindergarten Experiment with Architecture

Kindergarten students from Ms. Jeri Eslon's class in co-ordination with Art PIR Myra Winters recently experimented with an architecture project.  School 29 is a Dodge Alumni Grant School. 

First they used brainstormed with cut paper in the primary colors.  Next they arranged the pieces of paper in opened geometric forms.

Students next looked at the work of contemporary architects and noticed the correlation between this architecture and their own.  Below is a slide presentation of their project.

 

Celebrating Earth Day at NRC

The students at New Roberto Clemente School used old crayons for Earth Day.  Ms. Lauren Mandal, the art teacher and Ms. Triada Samaras, Art PIR from William Paterson University coordinated this art/science project. The old crayons that have been accumulating for the past three years were saved.

To begin their artwork, students drew and painted a cactus still life.  They gathered old crayons that have been accumulating for the past three years.

They also cut up used CDs.  They used tacky glue to attach all of the pieces.

This was a one day event for Earth Day while Mrs. Mandel was on a cart due to on-going PARCC testing making this project all the more remarkable!