At Monroe Correctional Facility:

• Music, technology and recording with musician and audio engineer, Jeremy DeGroat.
• Percussionist and steel drum specialist Ted Canning.
• Visual artists Richard Muto and Margo Muto.

The number of students / inmates in the classes varied at each site for the modules and within each module, as the amount of time the students were in both the Monroe County Jail and the Monroe Correctional Facility was determined by the justice system, arrest, awaiting, trial, serving a sentence. Approximately 190 student / inmates participated in Art, Literacy, and the Classroom Community's Second year. Average attendance for the student / inmates at Monroe County Jail was eight days per module. Five students / inmates participated in the three modules at Monroe County Jail and approximately twenty-five students / inmates participated in two of the modules.  Fifteen students / inmates participated for twenty days in The Jimmy Santiago Baca Library, Writing, and Publishing Center. At Monroe Correctional Facility approximately twenty students / inmates participated in the three modules.

• Writing and music produced by the students / inmates at both sites was recorded for www.nyslc.org.

• Students / Inmates at the Correctional Facility rehearsed and recorded music in a drumming ensemble.

• The self portraits created by the students / inmates at Monroe Correctional Facility http://www.nyslc.org/visualart2yr.htm were reproduced by the Office of The Sheriff, County of Monroe to be hung in the offices of the Sheriff's Department.

• The Jimmy Santiago Boca Library, Writing, and Publishing Center was established on the 5th floor of Monroe County Jail http://www.nyslc.org/jimmysantiagoyr2.htm. The room for the library was donated and prepared by the Sheriff's Office. Two state of the art iMacs, software for desktop publishing, art supplies, and books and periodicals relevant to the lives of the students / inmates were purchased with funds from a private foundation. Students / inmates are selected to work in the library, writing, and publishing center through a rubric developed by the Project team in consultation with sheriff's deputies.

• Students / inmates in The Jimmy Santiago Boca Library, Writing, and Publishing Center at Monroe County Jail wrote and illustrated books for children http://www.nyslc.org/Gregory%20book.pdf. The idea grew from students / inmates ideas and from planning sessions with the Project team. The books for children:

• Portfolios of the work accomplished by students / inmates who participated in The Jimmy Santiago Boca Library, Writing, and Publishing Center were created with the students / inmates for them to take with them upon release to demonstrate positive accomplishments while incarcerated.

• Students / inmates at Monroe County Jail worked with Dale Davis to create a play, "Where Is Tomorrow Coming From," that juxtaposed the history of Rochester with present day Rochester. Monroe County Jail sits on the one hundred acres of land originally purchased by Colonel Nathaniel Rochester. David Shakes cast, rehearsed, directed the play performed by students / inmates for students / inmates, sheriff's deputies, teachers, and invited members from the community. A CD of the play was recorded.

The Professional Development Component for artists consisted of sessions on an overview of The New York State Literary Center, ALCC, arts learning, and Rochester City School District's Youth and Justice Program, a tour of Monroe County Jail and an introduction to working in a correctional setting by Edward Ignarri, Director of Rehabilitation, Monroe County Sheriff's Department, an orientation session for working at Monroe County Jail and Monroe Correctional Facility conducted by the Office of The Sheriff, County of Monroe, and two planning sessions at the Monroe County Jail and Monroe Correctional Facility with the participating teachers. For artists and teachers professional development consisted of:

• Three members of the Project Team, including two Rochester City School District teachers, attended a summer session, sponsored by the New York State Council on the Arts, on arts learning at C.W. Post College.
• Three members of the Project Team, including two Rochester City School District teachers spent one day at Passages Academy in New York City experiencing first hand the impact of arts learning in Passages Academy's classrooms.
• Kamilah Forbes http://www.kamilahforbes.com/, Artistic Director of the Hip Hop Theater Festival http://www.hhtf.org/ and HBO's Def Poetry, presented an in-service session on How To Motivate Reluctant Learners with Theater.
• Sean Turner, scholar and literacy specialist, presented an in-service on literacy and technology.

The Research Component:

• Arts, Literacy, and the Classroom Community was featured at the 2008 NYS Association of Incarcerated Education Programs (NYSAIEP) conference.
• Arts, Literacy, and The Classroom Community and the New York State Arts In Correctional Education (NYSACEN) network were recognized nationally  at the first national Arts In Criminal Justice Conference in Philadelphia in October 2007. This conference brought together all of the top programs working in the arts in criminal justice in the United States.