Reading, Walking, Talking- A StoryWalk!
Educators at a Maine school are integrating literacy with physical education by installing story walks around the school. Students read a story written last year by a fifth-grader as they walk along an outdoor track. Educators plan to install similar story walks using books and student-writing competitions."
What if we had this at all of our Elementary Schools? Our NEW Elementary Schools can build this in! A StoryWalk!
From the Eyewitness USC Shoah Foundation "100 Days to Inspire Respect", providing educators with easy to use testimony-based tools to discuss difficult, but important topics from hate to xenophobia. See below for info from their website.
"Modeled after the aggressive 100-day agenda initiated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt when he took office in 1933, "100 Days to Inspire Respect" will run from Jan. 20 through April 29. During those 100 days, each day we will release a new IWitness activity, Mini Lesson or other resources to help teach across 14 themes from racism to human rights to civic responsibility and more. All of the resources are grounded in clips of testimony from survivors of genocide - the logical conclusion of unchecked hatred, racism, and intolerance.
Through the testimonies in IWitness, we understand hatred comes from stories, and so, we are countering hatred with stories. As you may know from teaching with testimony, if a person knows your story, it makes it hard for them to "otherize" you, be divisive or hate you.
I encourage you to join "100 Days to Inspire Respect" by visitingIWitness daily to explore the new resources. Every Monday, we will share the weekly theme and the list of the upcoming resources, so you can effectively plan to incorporate these resources into your curriculum."
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