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| This series, designed for educators working with children ages 3-8, explores the theory and practice of Story Workshop - a playful approach to literacy that prioritizes opportunities for making meaning, sharing stories, play, and the arts. Using a combination of active discussion, reflection, images, and video, participants will:
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| Story Workshop: New Possibilities for Young Writers by Susan Harris MacKay (Heinemann, 2021) | |||||||||
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| Day 1: Preparing for Story Workshop What are the relationships between play, literacy, and the arts? We’ll discuss the nature and nutritional value of story in the development of healthy human beings. We’ll also consider the power of the aesthetic quality of an environment to promote a mindset conducive to learning, relationship, and creativity. |
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| Day 2: Getting Started How is Story Workshop organized? What practices make a successful story workshop? We’ll explore the geography of Story Workshop and consider what supports the kind of compass necessary for navigating the terrain. We’ll observe Story Workshop in session through video documentation. |
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| Day 3: Story Creation How can we create entry points for writing that support all writers to feel confident and motivated to invent their stories? We’ll build shared understanding of the kinds of tools, strategies, materials, and adult facilitation that encourage children to engage in story creation. |
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| Day 4: Story Sharing How can we establish a classroom community of beginning writers where equity, empathy, and compassion are part of the process and vital by-products of writing? We’ll reflect on the reasons that sharing stories has the potential to build strong classroom communities and share strategies for supporting groups of children to listen, respond, and find themselves in relation to and solidarity with others. |
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| SUSAN HARRIS MACKAY | |||||||||
| Susan Harris MacKay is the co-founder/director of the Center for Playful Inquiry, offering mentorship, consulting, and coaching in emergent design for a more courageous, creative, and compassionate future. As the co-host of Story Workshop Studio, an international community of educators, she facilitates experiences that support beauty and justice in the classroom. She is the author of Story Workshop: New Possibilities for Young Writers (Heinemann, 2021). | |||||||||
| MATT KARLSEN | |||||||||
| Matt Karlsen dedicates his efforts to helping educational professionals reimagine how they might partner with children and colleagues to construct more just and beautiful worlds. For three decades, he has worked as a classroom teacher and provider of professional development - including a transformative period at Opal School. Now, he leads the Center for Playful Inquiry with his friend and colleague Susan Harris MacKay, offering courses, presentations, partnerships, and the Story Workshop Studio community of mutual mentorship. | |||||||||
| DATES & TIMES: 28th September & 5th, 12th, 19th October 2022 Each Session is for 2 Hours San Francisco 8.00 am | New York 11.00 am | London 4.00 pm | Zurich 5:00 pm | Dubai 7:00 pm | India 8:30 pm Hong Kong 11:00 pm Please click here to check your time for the workshop |
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