Our Creative Writing, Performance & Visual Arts Literacy Workshops Evaluation Process | ELA Standards | NYC Blueprint | Information For Parents Community~Word Project Creative Writing, Performance and Visual Arts Literacy Workshops  usually run for 40 sessions, from October to June. We also offer early-year residencies that last between 8 and 20 weeks. Our Community~Word Project Creative Writing, Performance and Visual Arts Literacy Workshops Include: On-going weekly planning/reflection meetings with teaching artists and classroom teachers to facilitate the design and implementation of collaborative creative expression and creative writing methods into artistic and academic instruction. On-going professional development -- interactive staff development as classroom teachers participate along with their students in teaching artist led lessons, and interactive staff development as classroom teachers participate in artist-led literacy workshops that take place at Barnes & Noble. On-going collaborative creative expression and creative writing workshops -- beginning with educational theater/collaboration exercises, expanding into writing/performing poems and stories -- concentrating on experiencing and exploring literary devices of alliteration, rhyme, rhythm, sounds, sequence, line and stanza lengths, dialogue, tone, and detail through choreographing literature and students' writing into performance and a set of indoor murals with a team of teaching artists and classroom teachers and a visiting visual artist. Under the supervision of a visual artist, each of the classes will create a team-painted and team-designed indoor 4ft by 6ft mural that will feature an integrated line of text from one of their collaborative poems. One of the murals will be on permanent display at the school and the other two will travel to district and city wide events representing participant's voices and visions. Parents: See Special Mural Information Section. Padres: Informaciones Especiales. Performances and mural debuts both at the school and at the local Starbucks and/or Barnes & Noble of the students' collaborative writings and literature studies. As part of their pre-service component through Community~Word Project's Teaching Artist Internship and Training Program, prospective teaching artists trained in Community~Word Project's methods, will come into the classroom to work alongside the team of artists, providing extra help as well as setting an example of seriously committing one's self to one's creative work through pursuing a degree or focus in one's art