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City Lore specializes in building connections between local, regional, and national cultural resources and K-12 classrooms. In New York City, we offer in-school programs - staff development workshops, technology seminars, artist residencies, and instructional materials that help teachers integrate folklife and community resources across the curriculum; and a Teacher's Resource Center, located in our downtown Manhattan office, stocked with books, photographs, and videos on folklore, history, culture, and the arts. Our national offerings include the interactive CARTS Website; the annual CARTS Newsletter, reporting on model programs around the country in folk arts in education; Local Learning, a pilot project creating summertime sessions for teachers in the use of folklife and community resources in the classroom; and the CARTS Education Network - a folk arts-in-education community linking teachers, folk arts educators and folk artists through virtual and print communications.