Cullman Center Summer Seminars 2024 Question Title * 1. Full Name Question Title * 2. Mailing Address: Give an address to which we can mail course reading material. Question Title * 3. Telephone Question Title * 4. Email Address: Give an address that you check regularly. Question Title * 5. School Name Question Title * 6. School Address Question Title * 7. Check all boxes that apply to your school. Public Charter Title 1 Private Religiously Affiliated Elementary School Middle School High School Other (please specify) Question Title * 8. College Education: Degree, institution, and year graduated Question Title * 9. Graduate Education: Degree, institution, and year graduated (if applicable) Question Title * 10. Are you currently a full-time teacher? Yes No Other (please specify) Question Title * 11. What is the total number of years you have taught (including this year)? Question Title * 12. What grades are you teaching this year? Question Title * 13. What courses are you teaching this year? Question Title * 14. List any extracurricular activities you supervise or coach. Question Title * 15. List any awards and professional affiliations (Teach for America, NY Teaching Fellows, etc.) Question Title * 16. Have you previously applied for a Cullman Center Spring or Summer Seminar? Yes No Question Title * 17. List any Cullman Center Spring or Summer Seminars you have taken in the past. Question Title * 18. How did you hear about Cullman Center Summer Seminars? Question Title * 19. Select your first choice for a 2024 Summer Seminar. The Arts and Everyday Life in New York with Julia Foulkes: July 15-19, 2024In 1961, Jane Jacobs wrote about the “sidewalk ballet” on her street in the West Village while, uptown, the largest performing arts complex in the world arose amidst the rubble of a demolished neighborhood. Lincoln Center embalmed in marble this new attention to the arts—their prestige and inherited privilege. Backlash to the complex’s grandeur and cost prompted the mayor to create a municipal office on cultural policy that now commits more city money for the arts than the entire budget of the National Endowment for the Arts. This fusion between New York and the arts is now taken for granted, but how and why did this occur? What do the arts mean to New York? Who benefits and who does not? Through reading, writing, and consultation of the library’s resources, we will investigate how the arts became rooted in the city’s infrastructure, economy, daily life, sense of place—and how that changed what it means to be a New Yorker. Enchanting and Exploding: A Fiction Writing Workshop with Claire Luchette: July 22-26, 2024A good story, Joy Williams writes, “...never soothes or comforts. It is no prescription, neither is it diversionary, although it can and should enchant while it explodes in the reader's face.” In this class, we’ll examine ways of captivating the reader—at both the line level, with language and details, and the story level, with characterization and narrative momentum—and we’ll spend time exploring defamiliarization as a vital tool for giving stories intrigue and urgency. We’ll look, too, at what might constitute a detonation, and how to make our fiction go kablooey.Our time will be split between generative writing exercises and discussion of fiction by Williams, Ndinda Kioko, Kirstin Valdez Quade, Jamel Brinkley, and others. Each participant will write a short story that we will workshop at the end of the week. Question Title * 20. In no more than 250 words, tell us why you want to take this seminar. Question Title * 21. If you are not selected for your first choice, are you interested in our other course? Yes No Question Title * 22. If yes, in no more than 250 words, tell us why you want to take this seminar. Question Title * 23. In no more than 250 words, describe how you would teach a favorite book, historical period, or other topic. Give us a sense of how you would teach something you are passionate about. What extra materials or activities would you use? Question Title * 24. Letter of RecommendationOne letter of recommendation is required. It is the responsibility of the applicant to request this letter and to ensure that we receive it by the application deadline of Monday, April 29th. The recommender should email the letter to: cswteachers@nypl.orgIf absolutely necessary, the recommender can mail the letter to:Cullman Center Institute for TeachersThe New York Public LibraryStephen A. Schwarzman Building476 5th Ave, Room 225New York, NY 10018Name of recommender Question Title * 25. What is your relationship to recommender? Question Title * 26. Recommender’s email address Done