Children's University at Brooklyn College Awarded Prestigious Arts Grant

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August 23, 1999

Children's University at Brooklyn College
Awarded Prestigious Arts Grant

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Brooklyn, NY - Children's University at Brooklyn College wasawarded a New York City Annenberg Challenge grant from the New York City Center for Arts Education to work with P.S. 146 (the Brooklyn New School) in Brooklyn and the Abrons Center for the Arts at the Henry Street Settlement House in Manhattan.

Through this grant, the Center for Arts Education will provide $150,000 over a two-year period that will enable artists and teachers to collaborate and develop creative ways of meeting the new educational standards.

At the Brooklyn New School, Children's University will provide a teaching artist/musician to work with pre-K through second-grade teachers, using music as a way of enhancing preliteracy, literacy, and math and analytic skills. With grades three through five, the Abrons ArtsCenter will bring in an architect/instructor to explore architecture and community design with a theme-based curriculum.

"We want to help make art accessible. We want to make it an integral part of the learning process that will benefit all children in the public school system," said Nava Renek, educational coordinator of Children's University at Brooklyn College.

Children's University serves the community and professionals in the fields of education and psychology by providing, through conferences and symposia, information on mental health practices, and research relevant to child and adult development.
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