School Partnerships

Our School Partnership Program sends instructors to teach woodworking and visual arts in schools throughout Greater Boston, both after school and during the school day. In the 2009–10 school year, we taught over 850 children in Boston Public Schools and local independent schools, from pre-school up.

Flexible, Excellent, Affordable

We are known for our ability to respond to each school's needs, the excellence of our teachers and our affordability. Our teachers work with school staff to create courses that compliment daytime curriculum. We can merge art, woodworking, sewing and other crafts with hidden math, literacy, social studies, science, community service and other interests. Classes can be as short as one session or as long as a year. We are happy to negotiate a budget that works for each school.

Examples

Our skill-building art class helps students in grades 6–8 prepare to apply to high schools that focus on the arts. (Murphy School)
Our Woodworking curriculum supported state math standards for grades 3–5. (Agassiz School)
Children in grades K-2 created illustrated books “All About Me” and “About My Neighborhood.” (Winthrop School)
Children built birdhouses, then went to Boston Nature Center for a unit on birds. A second group built planters, then filled them and learned about seeds at Allandale Farm. (Science Club for Girls)
Fourth graders built miniature colonial houses and corn-husk dolls, then assembled a village and enacted scenes from colonial life. (Young Achievers School)
Our Dyeing and Weaving teachers enriched a 3rd grade unit on the Navajo. (Young Achievers School)
Middle school students helped design and build benches as part of a Community Links Initiative, with elementary school students painting tiles to decorate them. (Irving, Bates and Sumner Schools)
A pre-school class made art from recycled objects, followed with a teachers' workshop on the same theme. (Russell J. Call Children's Center at Northeastern University)
Our Basic Sewing class gave rise to a class for Young Fashion Designers. (Solomon Schechter Day School)

Teachers

Classroom Aides

Paschal Corrigan, Bonnie Day, David Fricke, Rachel Grobstein, Caitlyn Hall, Rebecca Hoover, Annelies Kamen, Lam La, Julia Lavigne, Hannah Lindner–Finlay, Rebecca Scotti, Heidi Stucker, Gillian Walters, Jessye Weinstein