Stories can help things stick. I’ve been noticing this more than usual lately. One time I noticed was just this week when my 4 year-old daughter came home from vacation bible school and started telling me all about what she was learning. Both she and my 5 year-old son were telling me the details as [...]
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Yesterday was the first day of a grad class I am teaching this summer. It is called “Learning Through the Creative Arts: A Look into the Creative Process”. Of course we started by getting to know each other and instead of having the class participants create a piece of artwork or dramatize their introduction as [...]
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Patriot’s Day is something I grew up celebrating. Actually, being born into a family who was part of a Revolutionary War reenactment group, I grew up colonial. My first Patriots’ Day parade found me at about 11 months old being carted behind my mother in a wooden wagon. From there I was traveling to forts, [...]
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Oddly enough, it’s been almost an entire month of writing about music and literacy and I haven’t even mentioned lyrics in music! Well, now is the time. Of course lyrics are a natural connection music has to literacy. They are authentic texts! Composers and song writers go through their own creative writing process to come [...]
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In my last post, on Engagement, I was responding to a post by Jessica Wakefield called, “Learning In and Through the Arts.” The title reminded me of a text I was reading for an “Arts and Learning” CAGS course through Plymouth State University a few months back titled Arts and Learning by Merryl Goldberg. In it, Goldberg [...]
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CINDY MARIE JENKINS is a Storyteller & Coach based in Los Angeles. Her stories take the form of fiction, poetry, teaching, theatre, editorials, PR and marketing, advocacy, plays….Cindy now explores interactive guerrilla/street theatre to engage and activate her community and dreams of art integration in education. Previous community art installations/interactions have been shown at The [...]
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