When the invitation to attend the marriage of Storyline Design Director, Jeff Creswell and Caryl Menkhus, Director of Training for the Godly Play Foundation, arrived in Newton Mearns I was delighted to find that my diary was clear for the last week in November so I wasted no time in contacting my travel agent. ...
Todd Stewart-Rinier One of the most valuable components of Storyline is collaboration. The social skills that develop through working and problem solving with others in a Storyline are exactly the kinds of collaborative skills that are necessary in larger arenas. Increasingly the problems we face are such that they require collaborative solutions: within communities, between ...
Portland State University, Portland, Oregon, USA. Maria & Michael Haglöf, Swedish Participants Maria & Michael Haglöf are teachers at Älvboda Friskola, Stockholm, Sweden and have had a long association with and interest in the use of Storyline in the classroom. This summer they attended the 4th International Storyline Conference in Portland, Oregon. The conference planning ...
Wendy Emo, an Academic Advisor/Instructor in the College of General Studies of South Dakota State University recently met with Sallie Harkness and Steve Bell for an informal Storyline seminar in Glasgow. Wendy is a doctoral student working at distance with the University of York in England. At the end of a study visit there to ...
Sallie Harkness joined Jeff Creswell of Storyline Design, Portland, Oregon to teach a Storyline Reunion course on Book-based Storylines. Teachers attending this three day course were all experienced Storyliners who came with an exciting selection of books. In addition to sharing information about the Storyline work completed. In 2006/7 participants had time to work together on ...
The popular Storyline 1 class was held once again in Park Rose High School. This year’s topic was ‘Farmers’ Market’ and the teachers began by listing the stalls they thought would make a good market. Pairs signed up for the stall of their choice and began to create it using a shoe box and various ...
Lorna Karetnyk Four teachers, Lorna Karetnyk, Ian Taylor, Gareth Sleightholme and Simon Johnson from Kirkbymoorside School, North Yorkshire, left Manchester Airport on Saturday 22nd October 2005 to spend a week in Oregon observing and working with teachers delivering Storyline. Todd Stewart-Rinier was our tireless host who gave us a most educational and entertaining week in ...
In February I had the privilege of travelling along with my five sisters to England and Scotland. We were visiting one of my sisters who is working with Mercy Ships in Newcastle, England. When I realised in our travels to Scotland I would not be far from Glasgow, I decided that it would be wonderful ...
The Storyline 1 course is validated by Portland State University. To gain credit the participants have to attend all five days of the course, keep a reflective diary with an entry for each day and turn in a storyline plan for their grade level. This five day programme has been running for a number of ...