Educators expect the best for their classroom
Mondays with Mé brings positive and inclusive lessons into early elementary classrooms across New York City, and you're invited to experience these delightful 20–30 minute episodes with your students!
This video series is designed especially for Grades K–3 to promote literacy through the arts: building students' reading, writing, and verbal expression skills through a multi-arts curriculum in theater, literature, music, visual arts, and dance.
Host and professional arts educator Mélissa Smith brings each story to life with music, movement, inquiry, and mindfulness. Students can develop critical and creative thinking and a vocabulary to express ideas, stories and emotions.
Educator Guides
Each guide includes standards-ready themes, easy-to-use prompts, and recommended resources.
Meet our education team
Mélissa Smith
Mé is a multidisciplinary artist, educator, actor, producer, author, recipient of the New York Foundation for the Arts Women's Fund Grant, and co-founder of STEMmersive Theater Company.
Armistead Booker
Armistead is a visual storyteller, show runner, digital strategist, and former design director and educator at the American Museum of Natural History and Metropolis Ensemble.
Arts For All
Arts For All is a nonprofit offering accessible artistic opportunities to children in New York City who face socio-economic, physical, or emotional barriers to exploring the arts.
Mondays with Mé is a production of Arts for All NYC. This series is made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature; and in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.