On Thursday, June 7, public school teachers from around New York City got on the water with Row New York. Led by Community Rowing Coach Isake Smith, these teachers took to the ergs on land and refined their technique on the water at our Meadow Lake boathouse. Director of Programs Jennie Trayes gave a presentation underscoring the integral role rowing can play in helping the teachers’ students achieve success.
Row New York’s teacher learn-to-row is a unique offering used to spread awareness of our empowerment-through-rowing programs, open up new avenues for fitness to students and teachers alike, and help integrate our organization into the communities we serve. Many of our new teacher rowers’ classrooms are in our youth rowers’ neighborhoods. At this learn-to-row session, a number of teachers came from the newest neighborhoods we serve around the Peter Jay Sharp Boathouse in Upper Manhattan.
Teachers came from: Bronx Theater High School, Frederick Douglass Academy IV, 8 Richard S. Grossley MS 8, Jordan L. Mott MS 22, P 23 Queens, P 53K, and P 721 Q John F. Kennedy, Jr. School. These educators teach a variety of different grades, from kindergarten through twelfth grade. We were pleased to introduce to them the sport of rowing and look forward to more collaboration with the city’s Department of Education in the future.
