Your guide to NYC's public proceedings.
Q&A
Professional development locations and introduction of the Arts Hub
1:08:34
ยท
165 sec
Council Member Rita Joseph inquires about the locations of professional development sessions for arts education. Paul Thompson from the NYC Department of Education explains their approach to PD locations and introduces the Arts Hub, a new initiative for collaborating with cultural partners and providing unique experiences for educators.
- PD sessions take place in various locations, including cultural institutions and school buildings
- Creation of the Arts Hub, a professional facility where local artists are invited to create art
- Use of the Arts Hub for providing intimate, high-quality experiences for principal fellows and teachers
- Collaboration with world-class talent, such as Michel Indegui Ocello, to provide unique PD experiences
- Emphasis on leveraging New York City's status as a cultural arts capital for education initiatives
Rita Joseph
1:08:34
And those PDs, are they taking place in cultural institutions or taking place in regular buildings?
1:08:39
If we really want our school leaders to really be part of that world, we gotta make sure they're also in that environment.
1:08:45
I always tell my superintendent every PD for her principal should take place in a cultural institution, at a zoo, at the botanical garden, somewhere, some form of art should be involved in her PD.
Paul Thompson
1:08:59
So, yes, yes, and yes.
1:09:02
You know, we have the unique distinction of, I would argue, living in the cultural arts capital of the world.
1:09:11
We have, as I think is represented here today and will be represented later, incredible arts partners that we work extremely closely with.
1:09:23
So whether PDs are happening that are centrally generated or that come from teachers and the teacher communities that we help to foster and develop or whether they're being provided by arts partners.
1:09:37
We absolutely not only do them in schools, school buildings because we think that's important, but we also think, yes, getting out and and seeing these institutions is super important.
1:09:48
I would just add, that is one of the reasons why we created the Arts Hub.
1:09:53
So this is the first time where artists that call New York City home have been invited to come into a professional facility and have been asked to make art.
1:10:08
And that art is then leveraged in how we provide professional development to leadership and or teachers and the kinds of programs that we develop for students.
1:10:21
And so we have incredible world class talent like Michel Indegui Ocello providing very small intimate concerts for 30 or 40 principal fellows at a time at the Arts Hub.
1:10:36
It's like better than being at the Blue Note.
1:10:39
And principals cannot believe that this is the core of the kind of professional development that we are offering.
1:10:48
And if there's any question when they arrive, if they wanna work with our office, because again, we're not statutory.
1:10:55
Right?
1:10:55
So they're they're working with us is is a choice to some degree.
1:11:00
After we provide the kinds of world class experiences we do for them, there usually is never an upset customer.
1:11:07
And that sets the framework for the new kind of relationship our office is trying to develop with those leaders.
Rita Joseph
1:11:16
Thank you.
1:11:17
I'm gonna pass it over to chair Rivera.