EDUCATION PARTNERS

 
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ARCK partners with Lesley University to provide an accredited Educator Training program. that prepares teachers to teach our Creativity Catalyst curriculum in their own classroom

 

 

ARCK has partnered with Boston Public Schools for 11 years, bringing our programs to approximately 6,000 K-8th students!

 

Josiah Quincy Elementary
Chinatown
Partners since: 2011

Highlight: The first school to run the “Diversity Thru Art” initiative, which brought artists from different cultural backgrounds to teach art to all students at the school.

Gardner Pilot Academy
Allston
Partners since: 2012

Highlight: 8th grade students the “I Am, We Are” mural with Boston artist Mark Cooper. The mural explores the students' mulitcultural identities and communities. Located near Fenway Park stadium it is visible to approximately 3 million people/year.

Blackstone Elementary
South End
Partners since: 2014

Highlight: ARCK held its first annual Parent Art Night with an event that invited families/caregivers to celebrate and view students’ accomplishments. This helped families/caregivers understand the importance of art-integration.

 

Frederick Pilot
Dorchester
Partners since: 2017

Highlight: 7th grade Humanities classes explored themes of identity and community through public art. The students contributed to the “I Am…You” installation, which was displayed at HUBweek Boston.

Kenny Elementary
Dorchester
Partners since: 2021

Highlight: ARCK provided art programming to approximately 80 students/week by integrating into Kenny's after-school programming.

Umana Academy
East Boston
Partners since: 2023

Highlight: ARCK's newest partnership! This year we are implementing our Creativity Catalyst into classrooms reaching 60 English Language Learners and bi-lingual, Spanish/English speaking students.


COMMUNITY PARTNERS


PAST PARTNERS

John F. Kennedy
Jamaica Plain
Partners: 2013-2014

Highlight: ARCK led an exciting collaborative project with MIT D-Lab students, incorporating technology and design into a fifth grade writing class.

Maurice J. Tobin
Roxbury
Partners: 2013-2014

Highlight: 5th graders discussed the Universal Doctrine of Human Rights, which helped them understand their own identities and make connections new and different communities.

Red Oak After School Program
South End
Partners: 2014

Highlight: ARCK led an exciting collaborative project with MIT D-Lab students, incorporating technology and design into a fifth grade writing class.

East Boston EEC
East Boston
Partners: 2015

Highlight: Pre-K to second grade students constructed their own 3D models of buildings to learn about architecture from around the world.

Sara Greenwood
Dorchester
Partners: 2020-2022

Highlight: Through our partnership we taught 400 students, 60% of whom are English Language Learners.

Operation Peace
Fenway
Partners: 2021

Highlight: ARCK and Operation P.E.A.C.E. collaborated to provivde summer programming to Boston Youth that culminated in a free Public Art Walk and Festival in Boston’s Fenway neighborhood.