The Center for Arts Education
Camille Simone Thomas is an experienced Teaching Artist actively working with organizations such as The Center for Arts Education, Apollo Theater, Manhattan Theatre Club, and DreamYard Project since 2021. Camille specializes in creating and implementing age-appropriate lesson plans in theatre, poetry, and playwriting for students K-12, and also collaborates with educators and social workers to develop social-emotional learning initiatives. Prior experiences include serving as a Project Associate at Manhattan Theatre Club, where Camille contributed to crafting an original Off-Broadway show for court-involved youth, and as an Assistant in the Office of Multicultural Student Engagement at Wayne State University, focusing on diversity and equity training. Camille has also worked with the Broadway Advocacy Coalition on art for prison abolition and has held various positions in education and communications. Academic background includes a degree from Michigan State University, earned between 2014 and 2018.
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The Center for Arts Education
The Center for Arts Education (CAE) is dedicated to ensuring that New York City public school students have quality arts learning as an essential part of their K-12 education. Today, CAE is the only organization in New York working through direct service programs in schools; professional development for school leaders, classroom teachers and teaching artists; and active advocacy and public engagement to inform and influence educational and fiscal policies in support of a well-rounded education for all children that includes the arts. CAE works to: -Raise awareness of the value of arts learning for every child and increase public consciousness about the need for dedicated arts curricula in all schools; -Provide in-school programs in dance, music, theatre and visual-media arts; - Provide professional development to ensure quality school based arts learning; Supply tools and support for educators, parents, elected officials, and others to advocate for equitable education that includes the arts; -Influence educational and fiscal policies that will support arts education in all of the city's public schools.