The wish Joseph has in Joseph’s Big Ride finally comes true, his wish to ride a bike. The bike ride came to life in a school in Westbrook, Maine. Master’s of Education students at the Maine College of Art made it happen with an Art Lesson they presented with the students. They began with drawing…
Posts Categorized: Literacy Projects
Year of New Voices – Inviting students to tell more
In 2018 and 2019 I worked with New Hampshire Humanities to create a reading and writing project with English learners. We called it The Year of New Voices. In the Year of New Voices, professional writers met with English learners from many different countries. They read and wrote together. Then English learners, alongside professional…
“I hope I will learn to dance a different dance I’ve never danced before.”
“This is how we’re gonna do. We’re gonna dance the Nepali song. Cross left leg over right. One – two – three – go.” Then the movie song, Kale Dai, blasted from the instructor Pujan Wagley’s phone through the school gym. Over the weeks, we moved from the Nepali dance into “Whatcha Gon Do With…
Year of New Voices begins with U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera
This is a version of an article I wrote for New Hampshire Humanities about the day the Council hosted Juan Felipe Herrera at the Nashua, NH Adult Learning Center. Thank you Maren Tirabassi and the students of the class and Juan Felipe for their lines of poetry I include.
Bhutanese Folktale Project – it begins with one ESL Teacher Laurie Lalish
“Laurie was their first English teacher. She brought sheets of white paper and markers to her students who spoke little English but told stories with their art.” In 2010, Laurie Lalish of Lutheran Social Services, now Ascentria, conducted a visual arts project with her ESL class in Laconia who created imagery of their homeland. They…