New Brunswick Public Schools Arts Stakeholders Meeting

1. New Brunswick Public Schools
Arts Community Stakeholder Meeting
Lee Neamand
Supervisor of Fine, Visual and
Performing Arts

2. District Administrators
Superintendent of School
Richard Kaplan
Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction
John C. Anzul, Ed.D
Special Projects Consultant
James DeWorken
Director of Title 1 and Supplemental Education
Evelyn Mamman

3. Welcome

4. High School Teaching Staff
Teachers
Steve Antosky Art
Kristine Templeton Art
Adrienne Vento Art
David Lago Art
Paula Costlow Television Studio
MaryBeth Purcell Music
Jennifer Emery Music
Dennis Johnson Music
Alicia Giglio Dance
Steven Thornburg Theater

5. Arts in NJ
• Since 1996 the Fine, Visual and Performing Arts have
been a part of the New Jersey Core Curricular Content
Standards and a graduation requirement in the State of
NJ
• 2007 New Jersey Arts Education Partnership released
the first New Jersey Arts Education Census
• In January 2014, New Jersey became the first state in
the nation to include arts education measures as part
of the annual School Performance Reports
http://www.artsednj.org/programs/reports-and-data/school-performance-report/interactive-spr-dashboards-
for-arts-education/

6. New Brunswick High School
Principal
Janene Rodriguez
Assistant Principal
William Gonzalez
Tyrone Harrison
Dr. Ashanti Holley
Steven Susnovich

7. What do you know about New
Brunswick Public School Arts?

8. 100% of our students take
part in the National School
Lunch Program
40% of our High School
students speak Spanish as
their primary language
82% of our students
identify hispanic
16.2% of our students
identify black

9. http://www.artsednj.org/programs/reports-and-data/interactive-school-
performance-dashboard/

11. Arts K-5

12. Dance
Grade 2 Dance Power ARB
Grade 3 Dance Power “Waiting in the Wings” ARB
32 Students receive a full dance scholarship until grade 12
Grades 4 and 5 Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company
Intensive
Paul Robeson, Redshaw, Livingston

13. Theater
George Street Playhouse
Participating Schools Participating Grades Total TATC Residencies Total Students Served
Lincoln 3rd gradeTATC
4th grade Ensemble Project
8 160
Livingston 3rd, 4th and 5th 11 228
Lord Stirling 3rd, 4th and 5th 15 308
McKinley 3rd, 4th, 6th and 7th 14 285
NB Middle School 6th, 8th 4 120
Paul Robeson 3rd, 4th and 5th 10 210
Redshaw 3rd , 4th 12 260
Roosevelt 3rd, 4th and 5th 18 370
Woodrow Wilson 3rd , 4th, 6th and 7th 10 207
Total 102 2148

14. Theater
State Theater
Okee Dokee Brothers
Roosevelt – 150 students
The Nutcracker
4th grade students
Lincoln – 120
Lord Stirling – 122
Roosevelt – 154

15. Art
All students in Grades Kindergarten through 5
receive art instruction one time per week for 40
minutes.

16. Art
We submit work to:
Middlesex County Sheriff’s Office
Middlesex County Youth Art’s Month
Student Art Exchange Exhibition Program, Fukui
Japan
Monthly Central Office Display
Artsonia

17. Music
All students in Grades Kindergarten through 5
receive general music instruction one time per
week for 40 minutes.
All school have a choir which either meets
during 0 period or lunch

18. Music
All students are permitted to begin studying a
musical instrument in grade 4 with no cost to
the family.

19. Music
New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
All students in grade 5 attend the Concerts for
Young People
All students in grade 2 receive an in-house program
2013-2014 Peter and the Wolf
2014-2015 Hispanic Roots

20. Summer Programs
• Summer Music Program (Grades 5-8)
– 2 weeks of intensive summer instruction
• Summer Art Program (Grades 4-8)
– 2 weeks of intensive summer instruction
• Summer Jazz Band (Grades 6-12)
– 4 weeks of intensive summer instruction

21. Gifted and Talented Program
Grade 5
Art (Inquiry Based Interdisciplinary)
District Band
District Orchestra
District Choir
Dance (Intensive residency with Carolyn Dorfman
Dance Company)

22. Grades 6-8 arts
McKinley and Woodrow Wilson
Music and Art – Once every week for 40 minutes
Woodrow Wilson
Middle School Choir
Performing at Somerset Patriots Game

23. New Brunswick Middle School Arts
All students can choose to participate in the
academy program and major in:
Band
Orchestra
Choir
Dance
Fine Art
Theater
Every other day for a full school year

24. New Brunswick Middle School Arts
Students are able to choose 4 elective modules
(the academy program requires 2)
Semester courses:
Fine Art
General Music
Theater
Dance
Choir

25. New Brunswick Middle School
Residencies
• 7th grade students receive a Theater-based
Holocaust Residency from George Street Theater
based on the book they are reading in Language
Arts
• 8th grade students receive a residency developed
between their History teacher and George Street
Theater
• 6th, 7th and 8th grade Dance Academy students
receive a residency from the Carolyn Dorfman
Dance Company.

26. District Jazz Band
Students in grades 6-12 from all district schools
are eligible to participate in our district jazz
band.
4 weeks of summer instruction
6 hours per week for the year

27. High School- Dance
Curricular
Dance 1
Dance 2
Dance 3
Dance 4
Hip Hop
Co-Curricular
Dance Team
Fall Drama
Spring Musical
Randy James Intensive
Residency- “10 Hairy Legs”
Summer Scholarships
Rutgers
Carolyn Dorfman Dance
Company
Dance Honor Society

28. High School – Media Arts
Curricular
Television Studio 1
Television Studio 2
Television Studio 3
Zebra News
Co-Curricular
Media Club
Events
Follett Challenge
NJEA Classroom Close-up
Mercer County Public
Service Announcement

29. High School - Theater
Curricular
Theater 1
Theater 2
Theater 3
Theater 4
Musical Theater
Co-Curricular
Fall Drama
Spring Theater
CoLab Spring Residency
McCarter Theater
Playwriting Residency
Summer Scholarships
Co-Lab Arts
Contemporary American
Theater Festival
Summer Theater Maker
Immersion

30. High School Music
Curricular
• Concert Band
• Concert Band
Percussion
• Orchestra
• Strings 1
• Winds 1
• Guitar
• Piano
• Music Theory
• Chorale
• Concert Choir
• Chamber Choir
• Show Choir

31. High School Music
Co-Curricular
Marching Band
Pit Orchestra
Tri-M Honor Society
District Jazz Band
Sandra Dackow
Workshops
Jeff Grogan Workshop
Bobby Yang Residency

32. High School- Art
Curricular
• Visual Design
• Painting
• Sculpture
• Ceramics 1
• Ceramics 2
• Photography 1
• Photography 2
• Graphic Design
• Animation
• AP Art Studio 2D
• AP Art Studio 3D

33. High School Art
Co-Curricular
Art Club
National Art Honor Society
New Brunswick Library
Photo Contest
New Brunswick Arts Council
Sustainable Food Group
College of New Jersey Art
Show
New Brunswick City Hall Art
Display

34. Fine, Visual and Performing Arts
Themed Institute
Students in Grades 11 and
12 are eligible
Philadelphia Orchestra
Metropolitan Opera
Princeton Museum
McCarter Theater
State Theater
George Street Theater
• 2013-2104 Genocide
Project
• 2014-2015 Harlem
Renaissance “Savoy”

35. Fine, Visual and Performing Arts
Festival
• Choir
• Band
• Orchestra
• 3rd Grade Recorders
• Art show
• HS and MS Dance
• HS and MS Theater
• HS Media

36. Reflections

37. WORLD CAFE

38. What do our students need to know
to be successful in your
college/university/organization
when they graduate?

39. What changes can we make in order to
help our students be more successful?

40. What experiences or programs are
available in your organization/college/
university for our students?

41. What experiences or programs are
available in your organization/college/
university for our staff?

42. How do our current offerings meet the
needs of your
organization/college/university?

43. In what role do you see
yourself/organization/college/university
related to New Brunswick Public School
Arts?

44. What role do you see New Brunswick
Public School Arts playing in your
organization/college/university?

45. When we have the opportunity to
meet again, what are some topics that
you would like to discuss?