LITERACY WITHOUT WALLS Family Involvement through the Arts

HOW DOES LITERACY WITHOUT WALLS BENEFIT MY SCHOOL? Literacy Without Walls is a Cool Culture program that supports New York City Title I public schools’ Pre-kindergarten and Kindergarten families.

Your school receives:

• Five professional development workshops at cultural institutions around the city, designed for the family assistant, parent coordinator, educator or social worker from your school. Workshops provide training on how to implement Cool Culture at your school.

• Educational resources and activities, which are useful for parent workshops and meetings.

Parent Coordinators at a Literacy Without Walls professional development session learn about activities they can share with parents.

Your Universal Pre-Kindergarten & Kindergarten families each receive:

• A personalized Cool Culture Family Pass which entitle them to FREE unlimited general admission to 90 museums, gardens, and zoos during out-of-school time (not for field trips). • A Cool Culture Family Guide to help them learn how to use their Family Pass. • A subscription to our e-Family Time newsletter detailing fun and free museum offerings for families with young children.

TO LEARN MORE, VISIT WWW.COOLCULTURE.ORG/EDUCATORS/LITERACY-WITHOUT-WALLS • Public schools must receive school-wide Title 1 funding in order to apply. Schools that have over 75% of their students eligible for free or reduced- Have questions? Contact: price lunch will be given enrollment preference. Stefania Trelles • Literacy Without Walls is a fee-for-service program ($2,500 per school). Education Coordinator • Cool Culture has an Early Childhood Professional Development Contract [email protected] with the NYC Department of Education. Vendor ID: 161636968 718.230.4186 x308 • Enrollment for the 2014-15 program year will open in June. Space is limited.

Cool Culture | 80 Hanson Place, Suite 604 | Brooklyn, NY 11217 | 718.230.4186 x308 www.coolculture.org LITERACY WITHOUT WALLS

LEARNING STANDARDS AND COOL CULTURE Cool Culture’s Literacy Without Walls involves families in supporting children’s learning in the rich environments of NYC’s cultural institutions. The program helps children to: • Develop curiosity and interest in learning new vocabulary.* • Express their thoughts, feelings and ideas.* • Ask and answer questions.* • Make observations and draw inferences from looking at art.+ • Make connections in and through the arts to other disciplines.+ • Access cultural resources that expand their horizons.+ * Common Core Learning Standard + Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Art

COOL CULTURE PARTNERS

African Burial Ground National Memorial The Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art New York Hall of Science Alice Austen House Museum Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning New York Transit Museum American Folk Art Museum Japan Society New-York Historical Society American Museum of Natural History The Jewish Museum The Noguchi Museum Anne Frank Center King Manor Museum P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Asia Society Lefferts Historic House The Paley Center for Media Asian American Arts Centre Louis Armstrong House Museum Prospect Park Audubon Center Bronx Museum of the Arts Merchant’s House Museum Prospect Park Zoo Brooklyn Botanic Garden The Metropolitan Museum of Art Queens Botanical Garden Brooklyn Children’s Museum MoCADA| Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Queens Historical Society at Kingsland Brooklyn Historical Society Arts Homestead Brooklyn Museum The Morgan Library & Museum Queens Museum of Art The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine Morris-Jumel Mansion Queens Zoo Center for Architecture Mount Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden Rubin Museum of Art Center for Jewish History Museum at Eldridge Street Schomburg Center for Research in BlackCulture Central Park Zoo The Museum at FIT Seaport Museum New York Children’s Museum of Manhattan Museum of American Finance The Skyscraper Museum Children’s Museum of the Arts Museum of Arts and Design Snug Harbor Cultural Center & Botanical The Cloisters Museum of Biblical Art Garden Cooper-Hewitt Design Center Museum of Chinese in America Socrates Sculpture Park Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Drawing Center Holocaust Sony Wonder Technology Lab Dyckman Farmhouse Museum Museum of Modern Art Staten Island Children’s Museum El Museo del Barrio Museum of the City of New York Staten Island Museum FDNY Fire Zone Museum of the Moving Image Staten Island Zoo Flushing Council on Culture and the Arts National Academy Museum The Studio Museum in Harlem Gracie Mansion The National Jazz Museum in Harlem Van Cortlandt House Museum The Hispanic Society of America Museum and Library National Museum of the American Indian Wave Hill Historic Richmond Town New York Botanical Garden Weeksville Heritage Center The International Center for Photography New York City Fire Museum Whitney Museum of American Art Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum The New York City Police Museum Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum Yeshiva University Museum

ABOUT COOL CULTURE Cool Culture brings together families, schools and New York City’s world-renowned museums, gardens, and zoos to create learning-rich, culturally vibrant communities that prepare children for future success. Family visits to cultural institutions promote creative thinking, language development, and a love of learning. Cool Culture partners with 400 Universal Pre- Kindergarten, Kindergarten, Child Care and Head Start programs in NYC to serve 50,000 low- income families. Last year alone, Cool Culture families made 200,000 visits to our cultural institution partners.

Cool Culture | 80 Hanson Place, Suite 604 | Brooklyn, NY 11217 | 718.230.4186 www.coolculture.org