What People Say About Us

Comments on Classroom Storytelling Project

• I've taught prekindergarten for 14 years. After this year with the Storytelling Project, my children are writing more and reading more than they ever have before. 
• I know my students so much better this year, both academically and personally.
• Some of my struggling children turned out to be great storytellers and actors.  Being successful at storytelling led to greater success in everything.
• My Mentor provides lots of practical advice.  I can tell she has been in the classroom for many years. It's hard to take advice from someone who hasn't a clue what it's   like in the classroom.  She never made me feel intimidated while visiting me.
• I learned to teach many of our "essential skills" in a fun way.  Children learned to trust me and each other.  They took pride in their work and learned so much.
• The Storytelling Project has not only changed the children's lives academically with growth in oral language, print awareness, etc., but there's also been tremendous emotional growth, especially in their self-esteem.

Comments on Cultural Conversations

• Cultural Conversations helped me to clarify some ideas I'd been thinking about my teaching.  I was able to reflect on isolated incidents and gain meaning from my prior mistakes and reassurance from my past successes.
• I found being in a diverse group, where varied opinions were expected and encouraged, to be professionally eye-opening .  People really do bring all of who they are to any given subject.
• The part of Cultural Conversations that I found most helpful was the dialogue between our group members.  In each session I felt I gained professional partners, people who knew the same students and saw the same problems and were willing to work together on similar solutions.