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"District 75 serves 23,000 students with special needs in New York City, with over 4,000 teachers in 56
schools across all five boroughs. In partnership with the Manhattan New Music Project, we are seeking
funding for a five-year initiative to increase the number of effective teachers in special education settings.
Everyday Art for Special Education (EASE) is a professional development program designed to improve
student achievement in the areas of communication, socialization, academic learning, and arts proficiency
through integrated, arts-based approaches.
Through a series of training workshops and extensive in-school support, participating teachers in ten
treatment schools will learn skills and strategies across multiple arts disciplines (music, dance, visual arts, and
theater) in order to integrate the arts into their classroom instruction. In addition, we will broaden the reach of
the project beyond these schools by offering EASE training to other teachers within District 75 through our
District-wide professional development program, to special education teachers and college students through
Summer Seminar workshops, and to special education administrators nationwide through Administrators?
Workshops. Through treatment schools and other training efforts, EASE will serve 40,795 students.
Manhattan New Music Project is a leader in arts education for special needs populations in New York
City, and longstanding collaborator with District 75.
Our project will be evaluated by Dr. Rob Horowitz, Associate Director of the Center for Arts Education
Research at Teachers College, Columbia University."

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