Teachers on Tour: Christopher Celiz

When the children of PS 65, Queens, are suddenly energetic and cheerful, you know Christopher Celiz has just entered the building on his sleek skateboard. Celiz, an integral part of the Scarsdale Strings faculty, is far from your conventional music teacher. He is a...

My arts teacher changed my life…

At Scarsdale Strings we love to tell our teachers just how much they mean to us. As a part of the Arts in Schools month, we gave students from our different partner schools the following prompt- My arts teacher changed my life. Here are five answers that we found...

Visionary Leader of the Arts

Principal Kimberly Chance-Peart believes in confronting problems head on and finding solutions that are deeply rooted in the community. In July 2014, when she became the principal of PS/IS 327, her first instinct was to rediscover the resources the school already had....

Teachers on Tour: Elizabeth Derham

To motivate and empower a classroom, teachers must be motivated and empowered as well. This is only possible with a balanced schedule and most of our instructors, at their core, are both teachers and performers. Scarsdale Strings believes in nurturing our teachers’...