NYC PS Moving Image

Blueprint: Moving Image

Professional Development Series 2025-2026

The citywide series of Moving Image Blueprint professional learning is open to moving image, general education, special education and other arts teachers. Each professional learning program will highlight a different cultural destination and feature a unique media arts experiential learning component, offering skills and resources for teachers to bring back into their classrooms.

Blueprint: Moving Image Professional Development workshops offers CTLE credit and will take place on the following Citywide Professional Learning days:

Session 1: Tuesday November 4th, 2025

Maysles Documentary Center, 8:30 am - 2:30 pm

Viewing of the iconic cinema verite film “Primary”

Session 2: Monday, January 26, 2026

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 8:30 am - 2:30 pm

Man Ray: When Objects Dream

Session 3: Thursday, June 4, 2026

TBD

All sessions will address and align with the NYC DOE Blueprint: Moving Image, NYS Media Standards and Citywide Instructional Priorities.

For more information, contact Kathy Perrine kp@magicboxproductions.org or Jennifer Herbert JHerbert@schools.nyc.gov

Blueprint: Moving Image

Professional Development Series 2024-2025

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Join us for an exciting year of hands-on learning in media arts! This series of Professional Learning opportunities is open to moving image, general education, special education and other arts teachers. Each Professional Learning program will highlight a different cultural destination and feature a unique media arts experience, offering skills and resources for teachers to bring back into their classrooms.

Blueprint: Moving Image Professional Development workshops offer CTLE credit and will take place on the following Citywide Professional Learning days:

Session 1: Tuesday November 5th, 2024

International Center for Photography, 8:30-2:30 pm

We Are Here: Scenes from the Street*

Session 2: Monday January 27th, 2025

Whitney Museum, 8:30 am - 2:30 pm

Edges of Ailey: Dance and Video

Session 3: Thursday June 5th, 2025

TBD

Virtual, 10 am - 1 pm (Zoom link available at registration)

*Virtual option link available after registration

For more information, contact Kathy Perrine kp@magicboxproductions.org or Jennifer Herbert JHerbert@schools.nyc.gov

8th Annual NYC Public School Film Festival

COMING SPRING 2026

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Lesson Plans

Forgotten Herstory: Breaking Codes

Students will uncover the unknown story of WWII code-breaker Elizabeth Smith Friedman, and examine the changing rights and roles of women in American history.

The Codebreaker (PBS American Experience)

Gordon Park: American Media Master

Through viewing, analyzing, and responding to the photographs, films and words of pioneering Black American artist Gordon Parks, as well as works that incited or inspired him, students will do a deep dive into the process of creating artwork through the lens of social justice.

https://www.pbs.org/video/independent-lens-gordon-parks/

Welcome to My Life: Identity and Bullying

Through viewing and analyzing the award-winning animated short mockumentary “Welcome to My Life,” and participating in discussions inspired by the New York International Children’s film Festival, students will examine bullying, stereotyping, and bias from all angles, and create a personal digital photo collage.

Welcome to My Life (2017,8:37) New York International Children's Film Festival

Comics and Graphic Novels

Using online reference resources, students will deepen their understanding of comics and graphic novels as a tool to tell stories. Students will develop a deeper understanding of the power of graphic novels and comics to spark social and personal change.

Video: Comics Artist Joe Sacco on Journalism and Drawing

Active Listening and the Art of Interviewing

Using NPR and Storycorps audio interviews as exemplars, students will learn the importance of formulating effective questions and ‘active listening’ before conducting an interview of their own using the StoryCorps App.

Interview Tips With Steve Inskeep (NPR Reporter)

Instructional Film Guides

In collaboration with the Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment (MOME), these three guides for Searching for Bobby Fisher (1993), Mad Hot Ballroom (2005), and Finding Forrester (2000) align with the strands of the Moving Image Blueprint and also connect to an examination of New York City culture, stories, and neighborhoods. The three guides align with elementary, middle, and high school grade levels.