At the James Weldon Johnson Leadership Academy in East Harlem, New York, administrators, teachers, students, families, and community-based artists worked together to create a visually explosive environment that reflected enriched learning experiences based on their multidisciplinary study of New York's history. The Mano a Mano ("Hand to…

Letras y Arte: Literacy and Art, is a summer course that pairs college students and children from a Latino neighborhood for literacy and art learning. Started five years ago, Letras y Arte provides opportunities in four areas: (1) literacy opportunities that foster distinctive identities and voice; (2) immersion in a broad view of literacy that…

The author talks of his works with Bilingual students in literature circles, his experience with these children allowed him to reflect on an approach for teachers who want to incorporate art into literacy learning for bilingual children in a more meaningful way. He further states that the art core of literacy experiences with picture books allowed…