Summary:

The purpose of this project is for Being Me, a social-networking site, to allow middle school students from urban, and often underserved, communities in New York City understand and manage their own ecologies of health and wellness. Quest to Learn, a new 6th- to 12th-grade public school, will serve as Being Me's initial site. A central mission of Quest to Learn is to create a school relevant to 21st-century learning. On the Being Me site, students can document, discover, explore and play with a range of ideas related to health and wellness. Working in tandem, Being Me and Quest to Learn will create a healthy school environment for learning and play. In addition to the creation of the Being Me site, others deliverables will be the creation of a wellness curriculum to be integrated into the core curriculum of the school; and a program to train Quest to Learn teachers in all aspects of Being Me and its curriculum.

Grant Details:

Approved award: $285,000
Awarded on: Dec 16, 2008
Time frame: Jan 1, 2009 - Jun 30, 2010
Grant number: 64488

Grantee:

Institute of Play
http://www.instituteofplay.org
19 West 24th Street, 12th Floor
New York, NY 10010-3310
(212) 675-1101

Contact Information:

Katie Salen, M.F.A. (Project Director)
Katie.Salen@gmail.com
Phone: (212) 675-1101