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Successful 6th International Storyline Conference, Glasgow March 2015

Mar

2015

The conference attracted 250 delegates from 20 countries. It was sponsored by Glasgow Education Authority, Strathclyde University and Storyline International. A full report will be following to highlight the very positive response to the full programme. The organisers are greatly indebted to the many presenters for the high quality of all the presentations and the ...

Student viewpoint of Storyline in Highland Elementary School

Mar

2014

High school for me, like for many other teenagers, has had its share of ups and downs. Although I have had some great teachers with great classes and inspiring projects, my overall high school experience has been frustrating. Going to an overcrowded public high school, I was in large classes learning a breadth of subjects ...

Highland Elementary School, a Scottish Storyline magnet school

Mar

2014

Kenwood School opened in the fall of 1919 as a new elementary school for the young city of Bend, Oregon. Over the years, Kenwood School has housed elementary and middle school grades, preschool programs, and special needs programs. Kenwood is now the home of Highland Elementary School, a Scottish Storyline magnet school. The enchanting brick ...

Storyline International Research Resources – new website

Oct

2013

Dr Wendy Emo: University of Minnesota, Morris, USA. Teachers, researchers, and education policy makers sometimes want “evidence” to support funding or for using Storyline. At those times it’s great to have print resources. With that in mind, Wendy Emo developed the Storyline International Research Resources website, hosted by the University of Minnesota, Morris, USA. This ...

Message from Ken and Wendy Emo

Nov

2011

Storyline Research Dear Storyliners, We are conducting a research project entitled “Storyline International: How a curriculum theory traveled internationally without governments, publishers, or researchers ” through South Dakota State University and Minnesota State University, Mankato. The purpose of the study is to better understand how a curriculum method spreads internationally when it is not advocated ...

Congratulations to Dr Wendy Emo

Oct

2011

Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA I completed my doctorate through University of York in fall 2010. The topic was teachers’ innovations; I interviewed 22 teachers regarding their innovations and followed another 8 teachers (primary, secondary, and university) as they innovated with Storyline and repeated their Storylines. The teachers all found that there were many more ...

International Storyline Project

Jun

2011

Hathaway Brown, Cleveland, Ohio USA – Skutskar, Sweden For a period of five-months, classrooms in Cleveland, Ohio in the U.S.A. and Skutskar, Sweden shared a literature-based Storyline using the book Ronia the Robber’s Daughter by Astrid Lindgren. Mary Boutton, a teacher at Hathaway Brown School in Cleveland, Ohio, and Michael Haglof, a teacher at Alvboda ...

The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane

Apr

2011

During 10 weeks from January-April 2011, 4th-graders at Älvboda friskola in Skutskär, Sweden and 2nd-graders at Hudson Elementary School in Hudson, Wisconsin in the USA shared a literature-based Storyline using the book “The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane” of Kate DiCamillo. Edward Tulane View Larger Map

Storyline in Ohio, USA

Jun

2010

Sallie Harkness, Storyline Scotland and Jeff Creswell of Storyline Design are busily engaged in presenting a two-day Storyline course to the Teachers in Hathaway Brown School in Ohio. Teachers there have been experimenting with the approach for some time and their interest in this pedagogy is demonstrated by the most attractive booklet which they have ...

Storyline Tour from Norway to USA

Feb

2010

This week we welcomed four teachers from Ringstabekk School in Oslo, Norway, who were on a study tour to Oregon. They have come to find out more about Storyline because they want to get it going again in their school and there are so many new teachers at the school who have not had a ...