LEAP (Learning through an Expanded Arts Program) is an arts and education organization that brings professional arts educators into public school classrooms and operates year-round after school programs in some of NYC’s most deserving communities. LEAP’s programs provide customized, innovative programs in visual arts, music, dance, film, and theater that are directly integrated into the academic curriculum and successfully use the arts as a strategy to teach English language arts, math, science and social studies. Our programs both address the varied learning styles of all students help young people gain social and emotional skills through their participation in arts-based activities and performance. LEAP’s program portfolio includes a nationally-recognized, arts-based literacy initiative for grades K-8, award-winning after school programs and highly publicized theater and public art programs. Each year, LEAP serves nearly 20,000 NYC public school children in over 150 schools.

Cause categories: arts education women youth

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New york New York 10018
Website: LEAP