Additional Resources

Related Video
Library Programs
Watch these programs for more information on ideas explored in “Working With Local Artists”:

• Teaching Dance
• Collaborating With a Cultural Resource
• Bringing Artists to Your Community
• Three Leaders at Arts-Based Schools

Web Resources

• Americans for the Arts
• Arts Education Partnership
• Arts Extension Service Learning Partnerships
• Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education
• Young Audiences

Organizations Mentioned in This Program:

• The Center for Arts Education
• Lotus Music & Dance
• Project Arts of the New York City Board of Education
• Teachers & Writers Collaborative

Additional Information:

• Information on African Dance
• Information on African Drumming
• Information About Langston Hughes

Favorite Material of Leonore Gordon on the Teachers & Writers Collaborative Web site. (Click on these titles in the book index)

• Poetry Everywhere
• The Alphabet of the Trees
• Sing the Sun Up
• The List Poem

Lesson Plans and Materials

• Poem Featured in “Working With Local Artists”
• Outline of African Strand Activities
• African Dance Lesson Plan: Dance in Our Community
• African Dance Fact Sheet