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 […]
Students collaborate with TMS to share their day-to-day culture of caring for themselves and each other.
Environmental Public Service Announcements filmed and edited by middle school students.
Student directed media represents the school online.
Using media literacy and social justice theater pedagogy, students document a peaceful protest at their school, ask each other what it means to be an activist, then use a variety of performance and media to reflect on and celebrate surviving the COVID-19 era.
Between Parkland & SantaFe shootings a high school Government class collaborated with themediaspot to create this piece on gun control in the USA. Students mashed up images, stats, music, video, interviews & original music & poems to share their POV in a town hall screening with city school safety officials.
Each 5th-grade student in Ms. Averill’s class at PS 32 in The Bronx wrote poems using a graphic organizer with prompts to answer the question, Why not Equality? They worked with TMS a few days before moving on to middle school to film and edit this mash-up PSA video using each students’ favorite line to show their […]
Library Media Specialist, Kyra Wolfe has been working with TMS on K-8 media literacy integration since as far back as 2010. She activated her own media literacy by co-directing the following video productions.
The Media Spot