ArtsPowered Schools
Telling Your Story
Develop a story about your project that you can share with others, as well as with the ICA. The story should be brief (two pages maximum), to the point, and understandable to a variety of audiences. Use the following questions to structure your story:

1. What did your project set out to do? What outcomes did you identify for your project?

Our objective was to build a community of learners that are respectful, kind, tolerant, and honest to help eliminate bullying in our school and on the playground. Our project titled, "Friendship...Pass It On." was chosen to teach respect for self, others and property through storytelling. Our artist in residence, Joy Steiner, used storytelling to reinforce character development. Joy worked with students from each grade level, partnering older students with students from the younger grades. She introduced the students to storytelling with warm up games, jokes, songs, and personal stories. Each day the students were involved in listening to, telling, and acting out stories. The students shared their own stories and Joy connected those stories to the theme of friendship and character development. She made sure the students understood that friends listen to each other, friends include one another, friends stick up for each other and each of us can make a difference.
At the end of the week long workshop, the students celebrated their work by performing the stories they had written.

Lynn Price, Music Educator
Ponderosa Elementary, Meridian, Idaho

price.lynn@meridianschools.org
208-855-4040
2. What did the project accomplish? Who was served and how did they benefit?

The students were involved in a creative process from beginning to end. They listened to a master story teller, learned how to tell their own stories, and peformed their stories for each other. The students not only benefited by the experience, but also learned to work together with students younger or older than themselves. The students learned what a friend is and how to be a friend. Our hope was that these students would share what they learned about friendship with others in their lives.
3. How do you know that your project accomplished these things? What evaluation methods did you use?

The students wrote their own stories and shared them in class and in a final performance celebration for the entire school.
4. How will you share the results of your program with others?
(These might be other school personnel, parents, press/media, PTO/PTA,
local or state policy makers, etc.)



The Ponderosa school body, parents, and faculty were invited to the final performance in the gym.
Please attach photographs (please limit to 400 pixels wide) or other documentation that helps others to understand your project. Label the documentation with text that explains what it is and how it shows the project’s accomplishments.

imageJoy telling a story
imagePracticing
imageThe kids singing songs
imageStorytelling in action
imageThe Dog story
                                              
Title for this story: 

Your Name:  
Your School or Organization:    
Date Submitted:  

Thank you.




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