Teaching Artists Victor Cockburn and Judith Steinbergh founded Troubadour, Inc. in 1981. In 1983, Troubadour incorporated as a nonprofit, tax-exempt, arts education organization. Our programs and activities include School Partnerships, Writers� Residencies and Professional Development Workshops; creating and publishing multicultural curricula to support literacy and the arts in the classroom; research into how the literary and musical arts affect children�s learning; and mentoring emerging Teaching Artists.
Troubadour has:
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Served more than 175,000 teachers and students in more than 50 Massachusetts school districts since 1981.
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Contributed to increases of up to 22 percentage points over three years in MCAS scores on English Language Arts exams.
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Been selected as a Creative Teaching Partner by the Massachusetts Cultural Council and as a member of Hunt Alternatives Fund's ARTWorks for Kids Coalition and Massachusetts Advocates for the Arts, Sciences and Humanities.
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Received Parents' Choice Awards for our CD curriculum resources Where I Come From: Songs and Poems from Many Cultures and Get Ready for Boston: Songs, Poems and Stories about Boston and Its Neighborhoods.
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Composed and produced audio recordings of curriculum materials in English, Spanish and other languages for Major Educational Publishers, such as Scholastic, MacMillan, Hampton-Brown, Jostens Learning, Harcourt-Brace, Silver Burdett Ginn and Curriculum Associates.
1 Represents percentage point increase by grade level 3-5 over 3 years in the number of Taylor School students scoring in the Advanced and Proficient categories.
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