Highlights of achievements from the Creative Literacy Alliance programs
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| Genoa middle-school students perform a play they wrote themselves at the CLA celebration. |
• Dozens of enthusiastic students experiencing our four "mini-fests" in metaphor and poetry and in acting and staging;
• Two graduate-level, three-credit classes for teachers in which faculty at Genoa re-entered the writing process, both theoretically and as writers themselves;
• Two writers-in-residence visiting the school: Helen Frost reading from her just-published young adult book, The Braid, and giving workshops for teachers and students in writing strategies; Michael London conducting an on-going playwrighting residency from February to April, 2007, culminating in the performance of five student plays;
• Two poetry booklets rounding out each year, with poems written by Genoa students under the instruction of Otterbein creative writing students and two successful public performances of those writings;
• Nearly 30 creative-writing residencies taking place at the school, with pairs of Otterbein students visiting classrooms for five sessions per residency, and sessions conducted in English, science, art, math and history classrooms;
• A peer-reviewed article analyzing the writing from our first year, "Aces in the Deck: Four Principles for Assessing and Strengthening Student Poems," co-written by Otterbein assistant professor Terry Hermsen and Stephen Morrow, Program Coordinator for Otterbein's Center for Community Engagement, which is currently in the final stages of being edited for publication in Teaching Artist Journal;
• The Westerville Education Association and Westerville Chamber of Commerce recognizing Chase National Bank and the Otterbein Creative Literacy Alliance as Business Partner of the Year.
Besides these visually noticeable successes, several immeasurable, private breakthroughs occurred both with students and teachers through the opportunities presented by the Creative Literacy Alliance.
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