> Read a press release about ArtsLit's Coming Up Taller Award, presented to Dr. Eileen Landay and Youth Leader Alex Henao at the White House in January, 2006.

> Read about ArtsLit and Central Falls High School's Human Creativity Program in the 2005 book Third Space.

> To read about ArtsLit in The New York Times, click here.

> To read an article by Professor Eileen Landay published English Journal in September 2005 about Theresa Toomey-Fox's ArtsLit Othello unit, click here.

> To read an article by Professor Eileen Landay, photographer Mary Beth Meehan, Central Falls High School teacher Len Newman, and ArtsLit Project Director Kurt Wootton that appeared in the May 2000 English Journal about a photography and performance unit at Central Falls High School, click here.

> To listen to an NPR show featuring the ArtsLiteracy Project, click here.

> To read about the ArtsLiteracy Project in classrooms in The George Street Journal, click here.

> To read about ArtsLit in The Providence Journal, click here.

> To download a keynote speech Kurt Wootton, ArtsLit staff, and Youth Leaders delivered to an Arts Education Partnership conference, click here.
To download or order a hard copy of the Arts Education Partnership report "You Want to Be a Part of Everything: The Arts, Community, and Learning," which features this speech and other information about the ArtsLiteracy Project, click here.

> Click here to download a transcipt of a 2004 Arts Education Partnership conference panel entitled "What should the Arts Education community know about literacy?" featuring Eileen Landay, Clinical Professor of English Education at Brown University and Founder of the ArtsLiteracy; David Bloome, Past President of the National Council of Teachers of English, and Professor of Education at Ohio State University; Vivian Gadsden, Associate Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education; and Barbara Kapinus, Reading Specialist at the National Education Association.

> Click here to download a transcript of a 2004 Arts Education Partnership conference planel entitled "What are the connections between the arts and literacy?" featuring Kurt Wootton, ArtsLiteracy Project Director; Arnold (Arnie) Aprill, Executive Director of Chicago Arts Partnerships in Education (CAPE); Gail Burnaford, Chair of Teacher Education Department at Florida Atlantic University;and Larry Scripp, Director of the Research Center for Learning Through Music at the New England Conservatory.


Here are some books that have helped us shape the project:

School Reform
> Horace's School, Ted Sizer
> Ways With Words, Shirley Brice Heath
> Imagination in Teaching and Learning, Kieran Egan
> The Unschooled Mind, Howard Gardner

Reading and Writing
> In the Middle, Nancy Atwell
> You Gotta BE the Book: Teaching Engaged and Reflective Reading with Adolescents,
Jeffery Wilhelm
> Reading for Understanding,
Ruth Schoenbach, et al
> Mosaic of Thought,
Ellin Oliver Keene and Susan Zimmermann
> Reading, Writing, and Rising Up,
Linda Christensen

Arts and Theatre
> Releasing the Imagination, Maxine Green
> ArtShow: Youth and Community Development,
Shirley Brice Heath and Laura Smyth (http://www.livable.com/publications/index.htm)
> Theatre for Community, Conflict & Dialogue, Michael Rohd
> The Empty Space,
Peter Brook
> Acting, Learning, and Change,
Jan Madell and Jennifer Wolf
> Improv!,
Greg Atkins