COMMUNITY-WORD PROJECT INC
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Mission Statement
Community-Word Project (CWP) is a New York City arts-in-education organization that inspires children in underserved communities to read, interpret, and respond to their world and to become active citizens through collaborative arts residencies and teacher training programs.
About This Cause
Our goal is to make school a place where students want to be versus where they have to be through innovative and quality programming led by artists trained to work alongside classroom teachers within hard hit communities. Change doesn’t occur overnight nor with any single organization thus we make multi-year commitments to our schools as well as provide trained teaching artists for the arts in education community versus just training them to work for CWP. CWP offers direct service each year to nearly 2000 youth, professional development to 70 classroom teachers and comprehensive training to 50 artists. We have served over 18,000 youth and trained 600 artists. CWP serves 1st through 12th grade students in high poverty areas in New York City, where 72% of students are eligible for free lunch based on the national poverty level. 24% are English Language Learners and 59% do not meet state- and city- mandated standards in English Language Arts. Program Details: Our direct service model uses creative writing and the arts as a vehicle to develop creative and critical thinking skills so young people have the chance to envision, invest in and build a community different from the community that is currently failing them. We intentionally bring a writer alongside another artist into every classroom we serve to ensure that each student practices articulating and putting forward their ideas, concerns and aspirations. After 15 to 25 weeks of collaborative and individual writing and art making, residencies culminate in published anthologies of student writing, group performances, collaborative painted murals, videos, and student-curated exhibits of photography. Evaluating Our Impact: One way in which we have built confidence in our current donors is our robust evaluation system for measuring the success of our programs that includes outcomes and indicators, pre and post surveys, an analysis of pre and post writing and ongoing observations of the work in action. Through independent evaluations, surveys, internal monitoring, and pre- and post-residency assessments, we are proud to say that in 2013-14 a majority of students who participated in CWP residencies improved their reading and writing abilities. “CWP offers students a chance to really voice the things that matter to them, a chance to finally explore and show their creativity, a sense of pride in their work.” —Katherine Burns, ACCION Academy Professional Development for Teaching Artists: Our Teaching Artist Training model where artists transform their creative process into teaching tools include both a 25-week training for beginning and new teaching artists as well as a 3-day Summer Institute for artists who have taught for at least two years and want to further improve their teaching practice. The 25-week training consists of 30 seminar hours, 10 debriefing hours, and features a 15-week internship where trainees work alongside CWP teaching artists in six of our schools to experience first hand the challenges and success of working with hard hit communities. As we continue to grow, our Teaching Artist Training is scaling impact as the artists we train go on to reach tens of thousands of youth in their teaching artist careers.