Troubadour Inc

Troubadour, inc. Was founded in l98l by teaching artists victor cockburn and judith steinbergh and incorporated in 1983 as a nonprofit, tax-exempt, arts education organization. Our mission is to improve student literacy and academic achievement in underserved massachusetts schools through poetry, song lyrics and prose. We empower teachers with dynamic strategies to strengthen instructional practice in the literary arts. We accomplish our mission by bringing our literacy through writing and song program and professional development workshops to schools that serve at-risk students in boston, lowell and other low-income massachusetts communities. The success of our program is founded on almost 30 years of working with urban, suburban and rural students of all backgrounds and abilities in more than 50 massachusetts districts, including boston, brookline, duxbury, framingham, lexington, lowell, newton, rochester, topsfield and worcester.