FOR EDUCATORS

Learn the Art of Creative Reuse

The MFTA Education Center offers high-impact workshops and classes to teachers, students and the public. Held at MFTA’s Long Island City facility and in schools across NYC, these workshops focus on the Creative Reuse of everyday materials and increase student engagement by showing teachers how to integrate the arts across the curriculum.  MFTA’s teaching artists model useful techniques and showcase ideas that support our Creative Reuse philosophy, inspiring teachers to include more art in their schools.

Back to School 2020

Whether you are at home or in the classroom, bring creative reuse to your students with our online resources, lesson plans, and activities.

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Earn P- and CTLE Credits while taking your educational career to the next level.

IN-SCHOOL PROGRAMS

Help students & parents make more meaningful connections between sustainability & art.

FIELD TRIPS

Bring your students to the MFTA warehouse for multimodal arts learning activities.

COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS

Bring Creative Reuse into any community with multi-generational family engagement events.

UPCOMING PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMMING

“Through MFTA educational programs and field trips, our teachers are able to find close connections between the artwork the students create and our core curriculum, which helps the students find relevance and a deeper understanding in what they are learning.”
James E. Brown
Principal, PS 297 in Brooklyn

EDUCATION BY THE NUMBERS

1

supplier of materials to NYC public schools

6000

Students visit MFTA each year

30000

reached via MFTA Education Center programs

Be a model for sustainability and take the Zero Waste School pledge. Click here to learn about related contests and grants offered through partnerships with the Department of Sanitation, the Department of Education and MFTA.