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This summer Harvard will host Quest Scholars, a mentoring program that offers low-income high school students the opportunity to develop leadership and public service skills while studying environmental issues...
...Cambridge elementary school students the opportunity to learn team cooperation and build self-confidence as well as to see the benefits of an arts education and gain performance skills in a non-competitive environment. The curriculum begins by building trust and cooperation between students and teachers, moves on to develop dance skills and finally aims to create an original student-choreographed dance which is performed at the annual CityStep show...
Most people are not fortunate enough to explore performance arts until high school. With CityStep, students are exposed to performance at an earlier age as a part of their school curriculum. In the second year, CityStep students are asked to commit their free time to develop more skills after school. With this greater commitment, CityStep is able to teach a higher level of dance and performance. CityStep seeks to open the minds of its students to physical expression and teamwork without pressuring them for a perfect performance...
...completely student-run program, CityStep is able to grant its teachers creative and developmental freedom. Whether it is leading class activities or working out specific problems, each teacher actively supports and develops every aspect of the curriculum. By pushing through the many obstacles and troubles of working with children, teachers develop many personal skills, but they also get to see the product of their labor in the final performance...
...beyond Rudenstine's initial push, Grogan said he was free to develop his own ideas. Much of the work was done over the summer, and by mid-September Grogan had a concrete proposal...