In the StoryBoard Program, our middle-school education initiative, our staff members,
volunteer teachers, and resident writers run after-school workshops in creative writing.
Our curricula were developed and tested by experienced staff members and are based
on successful models for writing instruction, such as those implemented at Dave Eggers’
826 Valencia. The aim of each workshop is to cultivate a sense of community and mutual
support among its participants.
Our school workshops focus on both oral and written communication skills. Our main
goal is to get students excited about reading and writing, and we do this as much
through games, storytelling, music-playing, and art projects as we do through reading
books and writing poems. Not only does this keep students engaged and excited, it
also gives them a crucial life skill: the ability to verbalize ideas and communicate
them clearly and effectively to an audience.
For more information on StoryBoard’s one-time workshops, click here. For information
on StoryBoard’s twelve-week workshops, click here.
