The class is one of many in the Shape Up NYC program, run by the Parks Department, offering a slew of classes in all five boroughs that teach aerobics, African dance, yoga and more — even self-defense.
A lifelong resident of the Bronx, Sr. Annunciata spent decades teaching the borough's young, and then, spent over forty years as a tireless advocate for the senior citizens of the Bronx.
At the Borough of Manhattan Community College, La-Dana Jenkins teaches a popular job search course.
Long before Brooklyn became an internationally recognized gastronomic brand, such places taught the borough how to eat.
"They have not delivered," says John Cullis, head at Barclay Junior, who has taught in the borough for 32 years.
After qualifying I worked in the teaching profession for London boroughs, mostly with children with special educational needs, in very deprived areas.
Dr. Marti, a biologist who earned his doctorate at New York University, taught at CUNY's Borough of Manhattan Community College from 1966 to 1979 and was associate dean of the faculty there.
The challenger, Taj Rajkumar, teaches remedial reading at the Borough of Manhattan Community College.
For some years, the teaching program was in several boroughs, but today it's only in the Bronx, where DreamYard-sponsored artists in forty-five schools teach about ten thousand students.
The situation troubles Joy Donaldson, primary teaching and learning consultant for the London borough of Camden.
