Are you ready for your Jack Journey?

Storyteller's Place in the Schools
Kevin D. Cordi, Ph.D.
West Virginia Storytelling Guild
April 2019
Frank and Jane Gabor WV Folklife Center

How do you get through that battle armor? 

Change Mindset

Respond with Story

When you adopt a Story Driven Mindset...

• Performance in schools becomes one way to be included in schools.
• Why not collect the history of the school /town and tell this story?

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• Does the school lack a speech program, address it with storytelling--there is a need.

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• Power voices with story.
• Create community with story.
• Teach curriculum with story.
• Bring faculty and students together with shared story experiences.

We can Learn from Jack

Like Jack, we need to be kicked out.

We need to suspend

Why?

Your SCHOOL Experience

RECONSIDER WHEN YOU SAY

• I can't tell to pre-school...
• Middle school students simply don't listen.
• Teens don't have time for stories.
• Because THEY NEED YOU IN THIER SCHOOLS. YOU REMIND THEM THEIR STORY IS ALIVE AND THERE IS A PLACE FOR STORY IN THIER LIVES.

Like Jack, we need magic helpers.

Consider Youth As Tellers

"Build Story Connections in addition to Story Performances"

Create a Youth Storytelling Club/Troupe

I seem to remember a book that will help you...

Partner with Teachers

Parents can be Partners for your Work

Work with District Grant Coordinators

We need to suspend our roles as

We are more than performers:

• writer, community builder, test raiser
• director, history alive maker, curriculum extender
• conflict resolution provider, climate maker, inquiry builder...
• And so much MORE
• not to exclude that we are STORY MAKERS--------------------------------
• CONSIDER THIS

Like Jack, who makes his fortune

Are you ready..

Sometimes we need to be led by the students

Give Ourselves Permission 2 Play

Sometimes we have to reach in the Box

Or go to Mars

or Back to Jack

We can tell about the Northwest Wind

Are you ready for your Jack Journey?

Let me know if I can help you. We need magical helpers.
www.kevincordi.com