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September 02, 2006
Edward Morgano, Arts Supervisor for The New York City Department of Education’s Region Five Learning Support Center, 7/14/06, Part One
Edward Morgano is the Arts Supervisor for The New York City Department of Education’s Region Five Learning Support Center. He supervises visual arts, music, theater and dance for 113 schools in three community school districts in Brooklyn and Queens. Mr. Morgano is one of ten Regional Arts Supervisors assigned to oversee the kindergarten through high school arts programs for schools in their regions. Prior to that assignment he supervised arts education for Brooklyn high schools. As an experienced visual arts educator with over 35 years in New York City, he brings his experience as a classroom teacher and high school supervisor to his current role.
An important aspect of Mr. Morgano’s work is building strong ties between schools and cultural institutions, community based organizations and local artists and studios. In partnership with these organizations, he provides professional development workshops for superintendents, school based supervisors and teachers. While these workshops focus on arts education, they also provide professional development for teachers in other academic disciplines in an effort to integrate arts learning into all academic areas.
Mr. Morgano was on the committee to create the Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in Visual Arts, an innovative curriculum guide for arts teachers. Key components are its five Strands for Learning: arts making, arts literacy, interdisciplinary connections, using community and cultural resources and careers and lifelong learning in the arts. The second component is its benchmarks for students in grades 2, 5, 8 and 12. Teachers reach these benchmarks using the Blueprint as a guide rather than as a prescriptive lock step curriculum. The Blueprint is available at the New York City Project ARTS (Arts Restoration for the Arts) website. There are Blueprints for Visual Arts, Music, Theater and Dance, also listed on the Project ARTS website.
Mr. Morgano is on the Education Advisory Committee of the Queens Museum of Art and was the recipient of The School Art League, Charles Marshall Robertson Award, for outstanding contributions as an arts educator.
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