New Museum of Contemporary Art

The New Museum of Contemporary Art will expand and refocus its educational programming to address the need for teachers to meet the New York Department of Education’s Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education framework, an educational strategy for student-centered learning that uses aspects of students’ race, social class, gender, language, sexual orientation, nationality, religion, or ability to learn about the world around them and connect across cultures. The museum will partner with teaching artists and twelve New York City public high school teachers to develop and implement lesson plans. The museum will then engage 360 teachers in professional development workshops. Ultimately, 2,600 teachers across the city will benefit from access to digital lesson plans that they can implement in their classrooms, and over 78,000 New York City high school students will benefit from art-based instruction, which has increasingly been cut from public schools.