Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum®

Doing Our Part Together
​To Build and Sustain Communities

​Learn how the ethnodramatic approach ​Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum®
  • provides streamlined culturally responsive, trauma-informed instructional design.
  • works in the context of youth-led research and writing for regional change.
  • supports businesses and governments in learning youth communication styles and life experiences in our region.
  • encourages collaborations among schools and industries that generate diverse talent pipelines.
Learn how the ethnodramatic approach ​Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum®
  • generates productive bridge-building dialogue across race, class, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ability, ethnicity.
  • serves schools, businesses, and governments in shifting organizational and regional communication breakdowns.
  • transforms school cultures towards youth and teacher leadership in our schools and regions.
  • re-energizes business cultures towards ally ship with schools, youth and teachers to replenish sustainable resources needed in all of our communities.

 Workshops, Certifications, Coaching and Collaborative Research & Instructional Support

We Help You Engage Teachers and Students as Regional, National and International Change-Makers

We Help You Virtually and In-Person
  • Increase educator and student investment in school thought leadership
  • Understand how to connect schools, departments and classrooms with a broader range of community local, regional, national and world needs
  • Locate talent from diverse backgrounds
  • Develop talent pipelines
  • Attract and retain diverse talent
  • Address harmful educator and student biases
  • Identify and solve communication breakdowns
  • Strengthen relationship-building among all educators and students of all cultures and ages
  • Streamline learning within and across departments and classrooms
  • Create systems that maximize collective expertise in the design of instruction
  • Document and recreate systems that produce successful instruction
  • Track with a broader array of instruction outcomes
  • Connect all departments within schools and industries to streamlined talent pipelines and innovation
  • Increase revenue, attract investors, win federal, state, and local grants

Whom We Serve

Teacher Testimonials 
K-12 Administrators
Curriculum Specialists all Disciplines
Department Chairs All Disciplines
K-12 Teachers from Every Discipline
​Counselors
In-School Suspension Teachers
Youth-Leader Groups

How We Serve

Leadership Training - virtual and in-person
Professional Development Sessions - virtual and in-person
Classroom Observations - virtual and in-person
Classroom Co-Teaching - virtual and in - person
Classroom Planning/Reflecting - virtual and in-person
Math Teacher: “Working with you has helped me realize you’ve got to get to know the kids, and if they’re not working, there’s a reason. All kids want to do well . . . Deep down I always have believed that but you, there’s sometimes that I just get tired, but then you coming helped me know—no don’t give up. If that didn’t work, try something else. The ones that misbehave, looking at it from a different way. That’s a person. Why are they doing that?”

Science Teacher: “Before, they were treating it more like a chore, and when they were able to connect with it and find some sort of use for it as is classically what you want, they were more able to cope with the challenges and work together instead of in competition to get things done."

How We Work in Schools (Trainings are Virtual and/or In-Person)

  • We support teams of teachers in forming or strengthening within and across departmental teams and in establishing systematic rhythms to collaborative teaching, documentation, and study of their practice.
  • We provide Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum® workshops, interactive speaking engagements, coaching, consulting, and certifications in the design of communication protocols and collaborative research
    • that strengthen team building, 
    • that integrate creative, arts, drama-based, and film-based approaches to reading, writing, collaborative research, and instructional design,
    • that maximize each person’s understanding and sharing of their expertise, 
    • that help teachers identify their own learning and identity processes, 
    • that help teachers track with student learning and identity processes, and 
    • that support teachers in designing classrooms that engage students as creative collaborative researchers who can impact our communities with their writing,
    • that support teachers in creating more room in their classrooms for student ownership and sharing of their learning processes.

Certifications - Trainings are Virtual and In-Person

  • Each of our certifications consists of 4 professional development workshops that take place throughout the course of a year. They include a host of resources, including training manuals, assessment guidance, and other customized readings. In between workshops, teachers receive support in forming teacher research communities through mentoring, observation, co-teaching, and group planning and reflection. 
  • ​By the end of a year, they have built teams/cohorts who are adept in collaborative planning, teaching and reflection centered in addressing regional issues with students through arts-based, interdisciplinary problem-solving.

Workshops and Interactive Speaking Engagements - Virtual and In-Person

Emotional Intelligence and Bridge-Building Communication Workshops/Interactive Speaking Engagements Length of workshops:
  • From 1-hour to ½ day to full day to 2-day
Number of People
  • Smaller (5-20) workshops will be more personal, interactive and experiential
  • Medium (20-40) workshops will be personal, interactive and experiential
  • Larger groups (40-100) may require modeling with volunteer group from stage and large group reflection
Email [email protected] to discuss your specific needs and for detailed information on workshops, certifications, pricing and to arrange. ​

Shifting and Establishing Organizational Cultures

​Building Emotional Intelligence

​Teacher, Student, and Community-Centered Authentic Assessments

​Strengthening Collaborative Leadership and Increasing Revenue

​​Building Bridges and Maximizing Expertise

​Researching and Writing for Change

​Creating Diverse Talent Pipelines

16 teachers who recently completed an Honoring Stories and Integrating Curriculum® workshop noted the combination of rigor and engagement they had experienced, the strong organization of the lesson, the relevant topic, the pertinent and high level vocabulary instruction, the many different forms of differentiation, the chance to learn for themselves across a progression of activities, and the supportive discussions.

Here are some of many comments from middle school teachers:
  • "If we felt engaged as the teachers . . . You know the kids are gonna feel engaged."  (Arnez and Ken)
  • "It’s very inclusive, versus me standing up and explaining to them all the information . . . you can make that [ethnodrama] work with any content . . . tie it into whatever time period or class that you’re teaching." (Emily)
  • "It’s something I can immediately implement in my classroom . . . It was new for me. . . the level of engagement and level of rigor—both were high."  (Ken)
  • ​"I found it fascinating to actually interact with the racial history of St. Louis and the implications that are still standing now." (Arnez)​

Hourly Coaching, Consulting, Mentoring, Observation - Virtual and In-Person

Hourly Coaching: Classroom observations, and/or planning and assessment reflection meetings with individual teachers and/or administrators and/or teacher teams.
  • Supporting administrators in implementing practitioner inquiry processes that catalyze change management approaches
  • Supporting principals, curricular specialists and literacy coaches in coordinating and streamlining their approaches to working with teachers
  • Supporting departments and teachers in coordinating their approaches to working together and with students
  • Providing feedback to teachers on their instruction and helping them forge teaching partnerships within and across subjects
  • Support in developing or enhancing school leadership teams
  • Support in working within and across leadership teams of administrators, literacy specialists, teachers, parents, and students
  • Support in mapping within and cross-curricular units
  • Support in designing and implementing teacher research protocols
  • Curricular material and assessment support  
  • Support in integrating virtual platforms and blended teaching approaches
Professional Development Informational Speaking
  • Introducing cutting-edge literacy educational topics
  • Providing insights into regional, national, and international cultural histories and their connections to youth 
  • Bridge-building practices that create connected classroom learning environments 

Overview of Workshops, Certifications, Coaching, Instructional Support 

For more information, please sign up for a meeting below. We will meet with you to learn your specific needs and to provide you a budget breakdown and workshop descriptions and if needed, we will support you on grant writing. We will ensure your specific goals are coordinated with our customized services.

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