Education Consultant
Kelley is the Arts Partnerships Consultant and Arnhold Create Consultant for the NYC Public Schools Arts Office. Kelley helps to oversee arts partnerships grants and programs that the Arts Office provides for over 550 schools across New York City. Kelley is honored to align her mission with the Arts Office in supporting the arts aspirations of all NYCPS students and offering direct support to populations where access to quality arts education is most limited.
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Kelley co-manages the Arts Partnerships Grant Programs: Arts for Early Learners and Arts for Diverse Learners. Last year, nearly 4.5 million dollars in grant funding went out to over 300 schools. In supporting the management of these programs, Kelley fields questions from grant recipients and acts as a liaison between schools and their arts partnership organizations.
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Kelley co-manages the Support for Arts Instruction Initiative, a City Council initiative in partnership with the NYC Arts in Education Roundtable and the Arts Office. This year, the Citywide grant offered 4 million dollars to nearly 250 schools across the five boroughs. Kelley supports the school selection process for this grant and serves the recipients with information and guidance on how to best spend funding.
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In partnership with the Fund for Public Schools and the Arts Office, Kelley project manages Create: a two-year teacher training program which provides high-quality professional development to early childhood teachers in the arts. This year, 36 schools and over 250 teachers and paraprofessionals have had artist residencies with The New Victory Theater, Studio in a School, Third Street Music School, and the 92nd Y Dance Education Laboratory. Kelley oversees all communications for the program and facilitates the four, yearly professional development sessions for participating teachers.
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