Pip Pop Players
The Pip-Pop Players theater project for learning disabled high school students, was started over 10 years ago through the help of the Meier Bernstein Foundation.
This year PIP is expanding its research and documentation to show the positive effects of the arts, particularly theater and puppetry arts, on the learning disabled population. The project is grounded in a series of classroom workshops that offer artist-led classes which incorporate tested methods of instruction including the use of folklore, repetitive chants, songs and storytelling that allow children to reach performance benchmarks in ELA which have eluded them in the past. In collaboration with Premiere Solutions, PIP will make available an online system through which the artist/teacher will be able to track the progress of each individual student.
This past year students from the League School, the Occupational Training Center and the Brooklyn Transition Center participated in a year-long program emphasizing the importance of keeping the City clean and the environment friendly.
