Changing the Nature of Education One Teacher at a Time

Lewis, Richard
Living by Wonder: Writings on the Imaginative Life of Childhood
New York: Parabola Books, 1998
Lincoln Center Institute (LCI) hosted an “Imagination Conversation” on June 25th as part of the National Dance Education Organization’s annual conference, bringing together a diverse group of artists and artist/educators (digital artist Paul Kaiser of the Open Ended Group, writer/activist Jonathan [...]

Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day @ LCI

On the morning of April 23, two visitors arrived ready to learn about what really happens at LCI from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. For the first time ever, Lincoln Center Institute participated in Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.
Approximately 25 children, ranging in ages from 5-16, participated in the program in various [...]

LCI Students Wow the Museum of Art and Design

This is just a little bit outside of the purview of this resources-focused blog, but long-time Lincoln Center Institute visual arts teaching artist Barbara Ellmann made magic in the classroom once again in a recent instructional unit. In partnership with teachers at LCI Partnership School PS 96 in the Bronx, students have been exploring the [...]

Building a Repertory Collection and Spreading the Word

Each year, the staff of Lincoln Center Institute’s (LCI’s) Heckscher Foundation Resource Center work to build a collection of resources to support each of LCI’s repertory works of art. These resources provide contextual information to the teaching artists and partnering educators who will work with our program as they begin to learn about and teach [...]

New Online, Interactive Handbook for Arts Education Professional Development

The online resource Designing the Arts Learning Community: a Handbook for K-12 Professional Development Planners by Dawn M. Ellis combines a handbook of information and tools with a searchable database of 50 model programs from across the U.S. It is a carefully designed, thoroughly researched, and amazingly comprehensive reference resource for anyone who plans professional [...]

Great Books for Kids

Each year the winners of the Youth Media Awards are announced at the mid-winter meeting of the American Library Association. There are some enticing kids’ books among the award winners and honorees announced yesterday. Here are a few that I am keen to read myself:

Masterpieces from the Prado Offered through Google Earth

The Prado Museum and Google Earth have collaborated on a project that offers high-resolution images of masterworks in the collection! Check it out:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/13/spain-art

Welcome to the Resource Center Blog

I am very proud to introduce Lincoln Center Institute’s Resource Center Blog. First and foremost, I would like to briefly address two questions you may be asking yourself: “what is a blog?” and “why an RC blog?”.
“What is a blog?”
The term “blog” was one of the most searched in Google last year. Why? Because it [...]