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Youth, Educators, and Storytellers Alliance
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- About Me:
- The purpose of the Youth, Educators, and Storytellers (YES!) Alliance is twofold:
1. To promote youth storytelling through the Youth Strand
2. To encourage educators and other adults to use storytelling with youth as an educational tool in classrooms and in other settings through the Curriculum Links and Storytelling Strategies Strand (CLASS)
We are a special interest group of the National Storytelling Network.
Join our group's discussions within Professional Storyteller on the art for, with, and by our youth. We also have a Facebook account.
You are welcome to support us further through paid membership of YES! through NSN.
- Website:
- http://www.yesalliance.com
Meet the YES! Board
Steve Jordan, Co-Vice Chair representing YOUTH
Anne Wallace, Co-Vice Chair representing YOUTH
Joe Jekot, Co-Vice Chair representing CLASS
Easter Christopher, Newsletter Chair & Secretary
Nancy Fraleigh, Project Chair
Elise Krakower, Resource Chair
Donald Mondragon, Communications Co-Chair
Pat Nease, Communications Co-Chair
Kathy Palermo, Youth Clubs Support
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I'm thrilled to be part of your very worthwhile group AND effort!
I'm learning so much from all of you!
Keep up the great work!
Peace~
Debra
I appreciate all you do on YES. I've watched you grow and, in some ways, I've had the priviledge to help to support this SIG. The rewards for your contributions may not be evident right now. But, just wait...it will come in waves as new storytellers take the stage (or front porch or classroom.)
As a way of intro...I have my bachelors in education and taught for 11 years in the elementary schools. During that time (1981, to be exact) I became struck by the bolt of storytelling. I also worked with youth in my next job as storyteller at the Edwardsville Library for 17 years. Then, in 2002, I retired to become a full-time "on-the road" teller. But, my roots in education were never far from the tree.
There are over 50 pages of Teacher-Teller pages on my website. I offer teachers and students workshops in the art of storytelling. Through the help and encouragement of others I have developed many study guides to go with popular stories for all to use as their own. Each year, during the St. Louis Storytelling Festival I organize the youth storytelling concert. This year we had 14 tellers. On Tuesday afternoons during the school year I work with a group of inner city kids to tell stories.
I also have some new, innovative work that I am developing with a fellow storyteller, Phyllis Hostmeyer. We are finding ways to use the stratagies of QAR (question answer relationships) with regards to storytelling. Hopefully I will write more when we finish our work. Currently we told to 55 classrooms and will present a workshop for teachers on our methods.
Thanks for inviting me to join. I'm still getting used to this site and didn't persue it....so thanks for the nudge. I'm at home with my YES buddies! Marilyn
Hope to see a lot of you there!
In this day of electronic communication, this skill and mentoring is even more critical! As long as young people (and adults) rely on e-mails and text messaging using pideon English, we allow them to learn non standard English. Believe me, no where is this more evident than in the written compositions that I grade!
Spoken English is the first step in learning to read, critical thinking and learning to write coherently. It cannot and will no be learned unless we encourage kids to communicate orally. Tjhat process takes time and we have to stop what we are doing to listen, but the end result is worth the investment.
What a great opportunity for storytellers to guide children in learning English, learning culture and learning social skills! And kids have fun while doing so!
I have taught over 800 classes, 11,000 students and coached over 500 young people in competition in speaking, debate, interpretation, theater and finally storytelling. Nothing is so joyful than watching a young person "find her/his voice"!
I may be retiring from college teaching but I doubt that I will ever retire from expecting people to tell me a story. I will never tire from listening to a story that explains, teaches, and clarifies the world around me.
I would encourage others to find your place and listen to kids tell...you might just learn something in the process. Yes, I am and have been a YES! member.
Thank you for asking.
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