Graduate Teaching Opportunities

Through the Community Writers Program, Sarah Lawrence graduate writing students teach workshops, tutor or assist a writer-in-residence in the classroom. In any given year we have between a quarter to a third of our student body teaching in the community.  Support and training for writers in the Community Writers Program have included a monthly practicum and a series of workshops throughout the academic year. Students also have access to the Teaching Resource Center, an extensive collection of books related to teaching writing.  Below is a list of placements the Community Writers Program has offered.

Colleges

SUNY Purchase

Westchester Community College

Middle Schools and High Schools

Baccalaureate School for Global Education, Queens

Bronx Academy of Letters, Bronx

Cypress Hills Collegiate Prep, Queens

Lower Manhattan Arts Academy (LoMA), Manhattan public school

Valhalla High School

Washington Irving High School, Manhattan

Westlake Middle School, Thornwood

WestPatent Elementary School, Mount Kisco

Yonkers high schools

  - Early College High School

  - Roosevelt High School

  - Gorton High School

  - Lincoln High School

  - Saunders Trades and Technical High School

 Yonkers Montessori Academy

Community Programs

1199 Union Learning Center, Manhattan

12 COMICS (after school program)

Andrus on Hudson Retirement Community

AHRC (provides services for individuals with developmental and intellectual disabilities)

The Armory, Manhattan

Boys and Girls Club, Greenwich

Children’s Village, Dobbs Ferry

Community Word, Manhattan

Concourse House (women’s shelter), Bronx

Cypress Hills Local Development Corp: Student Success Center, Queens

   - College Steps Program & YouthLEAD Program

Delancey Street (half-way house), Brewster

Hebrew Home for the Aged, Bronx

Horizon Manor Nursing Home

International Center for Disabilities, Manhattan

Lutheran Ministries (after school program), Bronx

Oral History Project through the Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services

Right2Write, Westchester Correctional Facility, Valhalla

Sadie Nash Leadership Project, Brooklyn

Stanton Street Settlement (tutoring), Manhattan

Sunnyside Community Center, Queens

Teachers and Writers Collaborative, Manhattan

Westchester County Department of Senior Programs and Services

 - Grace House, Mount Vernon

 - Unity Gardens, Mount Vernon

 - Lincoln Towers, New Rochelle

 - Franklin Windsor Terrace, White Plains

Yonkers Partners in Education (after school college readiness)

If you have questions about the Graduate Writing Program internships or teaching opportunities for graduate students at Sarah Lawrence College please contact Alexandra Soiseth, Associate Director of Graduate Writing, at 914.395.2371.