InCollaboration, Inc. /  a/k/a the Readers Theatre Workshop
Family Programs

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RTW presents Oriki Omi Oddara
Award Winning & Exciting
 Afro-Cuban Dance Company
at Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
Theatre w 46th St New York City
March, 2007


Senator Hillary Clinton
 greets  RTW Artistic Associates
Rick Montalvo, left, and
     Hank Wagner, right, at reception
 in New York City

Students at PS752Q
Join in an Indian Pow Wow
and Dance  to the Beat
of Native American
Drums & Chants

Family Literacy Programs & Parental Involvement Activities:

The Company's Qualifications

InCollaboration, Incorporated, an arts and education organization, was founded in 1983 to advance literacy skills among the youth of New York City and has worked with Reading Is Fundamental since 1990 to involve parents in family literacy activities.

Since 1996, the Company has worked directly with schools involved in Parent Outreach Programs, Parents and Family Day Programs and the school parent groups Parents as Reading Partners and Parents as Arts Partners, to foster parent and family interaction and involvement.

Our organization is a member of the Partnership for Family Involvement and offers workshops in the arts and technology for parents and family members and has supported schools’ efforts in developing outreach programs designed to foster family involvement in student learning.

We are also a current contractor to New York’s Department of Education and a charter member of PASE, the Partnership for After School Education.

The Company has incorporated computer literacy in its educational and recreational arts programs as a further means to improve student reading and writing skills.

Participating in many recent public, private and governmental education initiatives, our organization partners with New York City area public schools, local libraries, community centers, corporations and foundations to promote family literacy.

Services Offered include single 90-minute workshops and entire 4-6 hour Family Arts Day Programs.

Parent-Family day arts programs have included two or more (as many as six workshops on the same day):

Modern Dance, Mime and Movement, Sculpture and Painting, Music and Poetry, Digital Photography, Storybook Making, How to Make a Play from a Storybook, and Making Puppets out of Household Material.

Single 90-minute How-to Workshops, designed to provide parents with the tools they need to encourage reading at home as a family activity.

 Examples of single 90-minute workshops are:

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Seven Ways to Improve Your Child’s Reading Habits

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The Importance of Reading in Your Child’s Life;

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How to get the whole Family Reading at Home.           

      Workshop Structure

Workshops are “hands on” style, where parents, teachers and family members actively participate and have an opportunity to exchange ideas. The workshops include an overview, discussion, question and answer period, and conclude with the distribution of supplemental materials that offer opportunities for review as well as other information resources.

All workshops are modular, and can be tailored and modified to meet specific community requirements and areas of education. School administrators and parents discuss the age of their children, any particular needs, and the art form they are interested in focusing upon for their parent groups.  

Whichever program you choose, the Company will help to ensure that yours is a successful program or project.

InCollaboration Inc. programs are supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, and from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency.
We also acknowledge the continuing and invaluable support provided by
The New York City Council, Council Members Eric Gioia and Peter Vallone, Speaker Christine Quinn, the entire Queens Delegation and Queens Borough President Helen Marshall; The Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, the New York State Music Fund, Con Edison, JPMorganChase, the Carnegie Corporation and the Morgan Stanley Group of Companies.
Copyright © 2007 InCollaboration, Inc.