by Rheaa Rao | May 14, 2015 | Partners in the field
On May 14th, Scarsdale Strings is piloting the first ever ‘Music to the Dogs’ event with Bideawee at Manhattan School for Children. ‘Music to the Dogs’ is a unique modification to Bideawee’s existing program ‘Reading to the Dogs’ (RTD). RTD was conceptualized to...
by Rheaa Rao | May 12, 2015 | Teachers On Tour
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...
by Rheaa Rao | May 7, 2015 | Teachers On Tour
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...
by Rheaa Rao | May 5, 2015 | Partners in the field
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....
by Rheaa Rao | May 1, 2015 | Teachers On Tour
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’...
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