The Media Spot
Over their 17 year partnership (and counting!) The Academy of Talented Scholars (TAOTS) and The Media Spot developed the practice of student and staff mindful media making as a process for reflection on teaching and learning, and creating and spreading the culture that Founding Principal Josephine Sportella-Giusto envisioned. Using media making to shape a school’s […]
The Middle School of Innovation in Brooklyn opened in 2025-2026 with 6th grade, and Principal Eileen Herusso is building media literacy into the fabric of the school from day 1. Students interview each other about year 1 at MSI. Students interview their peers as they tour electives. TMS was excited to be there to work […]
4th and 5th Graders at The Belmont School are recording interviews and stories from people in the Belmont Neighborhood of the Bronx. 4th graders interview long standing community members. Students record interviews about the school live at field day. The process is designed for students to realize that they can influence the way their narrative […]
A TMS School Vision Production: Students from the PS 130 Youth Equity Congress get behind the camera and ask what family and community means to the folks at a Family Friday cultural event at PS 130 The Parkside School in Brooklyn. This is part of a series of TMS-PS 130 collaborative school vision media productions. […]
In this collaboration with The Media Spot, PS 32 and their students are speaking up imagine how to make their community more healthy. These videos, imagined and filmed by students and teachers with facts from Bronx Health Reach Institute for Family Health, are a call to action for more people to join the work the […]
Our unique collaboration is focused on leveraging students’ deep interest in film to authentically engage them across all core academic subjects, effectively bridging CTE and academic curricula using media literacy as the connective tissue.
Audio recordings that amplify initiatives, celebrations & student voice to the community
Environmental Public Service Announcements filmed and edited by middle school students.
Students & Staff define & articulate their K-5 school experience.
“Beware Climate Change, Class 5-318 is going to save the world!!!”
The Media Spot