In this professional learning, teachers will learn how to use the elements of storytelling to engage and expand student learning. During this collaborative experience teachers will use self-selected classroom curriculum text to explore self to text discoveries, as well as Social-Emotional Learning competencies.

Recommended Participants

• Teachers – Grades K-12

Learning Intentions

Educators will:

• Experience the elements of storytelling.
• Explore how to use storytelling to envision and examine self to text.
• Identify and apply storytelling techniques as strategies to empower students to develop creative and critical thinking, social-emotional competencies, and intellectual and expressive abilities across curriculums.
• Convey meaning through storytelling within contexts of our global society.

YA Connections

• NJSLS-VPA: Artistic Process; Creating; Anchor Standard 1: Conceptualizing & Generating Ideas
• NJSLS-VPA: Artistic Process; Responding; Anchor Standard 7:
• Perceiving and Analyzing Products
• Culturally Responsive Practice

Social-Emotional Learning Professional Standards for Educational Leaders

• Standard 3: Equity & Culture

When you pair this program with Queen Nur’s workshop or assembly, she provides teachers with the in-classroom support implementing creative teaching practices, what they have learned into practice.