Partner Schools

The Colour Literacy Project is currently testing its curriculum with a number of partner schools, from elementary through to high school. Eye-opener and STEAM teacher training is currently done in six 2-hour sessions online. Partner schools receive teacher guides which contain a series of exercises and supporting background material and a colour kit, with materials for the exercises. If you are interested in becoming a partner school, please reach out via the CONTACT link at the bottom of the page below.

ST TERESA’S RCP IRLAM

Primary school in Salford, England

St. Teresa’s completed CLP training in 2021-22.

Coordinator: Colette Harrison

Check out their International Colour Day celebration, 2023.

After participating in the CLP training, we now try to build-in more time for personal discovery within some projects, whereas before, most projects were mainly driven by a desire for a final outcome. We find this approach stimulates more discussion amongst the children, as they try to share, compare and contrast their colour work. We prize small experiments along the way, just as much as end results, especially those which revealed something fresh to a child. After our CLP training, staff recognised their own use of colour language in the classroom was actually quite limited. Colour vocabulary is now slowly expanding with regular use, and has begun to permeate into other subject areas. Many of the children seem to have grasped the idea of pale, muted, vivid, dark colour characters, and that colours belong to families - just as the children do! — Colette Harrison

MORRISTOWN BEARD SCHOOL

Middle and High school in New Jersey

MBS completed CLP training in 2022-23.

Coordinator: Peter Donahue

The Art & Design faculty found the exercises from the Eye Opener and STEAM series highly engaging. Optical illusion handouts from the first Eye Opener were met with fascination from our students. The CHROMO color sorting app was also immediately put to use in our classrooms, and the students enjoyed the agency it gave them: no one's color sort was "wrong", but rather, the sorts gave us all points of comparison to discuss and assess our differences in perception. Finally, we are currently revising the color theory unit of our Foundations course as a direct result of the sessions with the Colour Literacy Project! — Peter Donahue

DAVINCI MIDDLE SCHOOL

Arts-focussed Middle school in Portland, Oregon

da Vinci completed training in 2022.

Coordinator: Edin Cook

Being a coordinating teacher at da Vinci Middle School school has been an enlightening experience both for me as an educator and for my students. My students have been challenged and excited to re-learn color basics and science through a series of color labs. As an educator, it has been an honor to be part of testing the new curriculum - to figure out what color experiments and projects land with the students and what can be tweaked and changed. My students have a sense of pride being part of the Colour Literacy Project beta testing and through measured data, have grown significantly in their understanding of color and how the learned concepts can be applied in their own creations. — Edin Cook