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Access Idiom
Colorado Poetry Conference ~
Skyland Community School |
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Skyland Mission Statement
The mission of Skyland Community High School is to create a learning community dedicated to educating one student at a time. This starts by giving kids the opportunity to learn in a place where people know each other well and treat each other with respect. It continues by designing a personalized learning program for each student individually, providing real-world opportunities to connect students to their learning, and expecting them to find authentic, meaningful ways to show what they have learned. And it culminates in graduating self-directed learners armed with the skills and experiences to succeed in college and beyond.
Skyland Vision Statement We believe that schools should be guided by one clear principle: that everything they do should be “what’s best for kids.” For this to happen, schools have to be places where kids of all kinds are known well, understood and respected. Each student’s educational program should be developed by those who know him or her best: parents, teachers and him/herself. This program should grow out of needs, interests and passions. Its goal should be to connect him/her to the world and to the world of work. |
Access Idiom in collaboration with Skyland Community School provides Gretchen Ferrazza's Advisory (classroom) with poet/teachers to facilitate language arts workshops to 12 youth on an ongoing basis throughout the 2007-2008 school year. These 1 1/2 hour sessions focus on both the written and spoken word, and support the missions of Access Idiom and Skyland Community School. Workshop Schedule:
October 22nd, 2007 Noelle Benjamin
Age 28 Poet/ Hairstylist/ Director of Programs at Art From
Ashes/ Chef/ how many more hats should I name that I wear??
;-) "I have been writing poetry since I can remember for my
own therapeutic release of energy and now facilitate its
therapy for high risk youth in the Denver Area. I've worked
with youth for about 6 years now and have been at Art From
Ashes for close to three years. I love that the spoken and
written word is so powerful and hope that all who engage and
are changed by its force continue to infect others with
light."
November 5, 2007 Michael Adams is the author of several books of poetry and essays. His most recent work, a collaboration with the poets James Taylor III and Phil Woods, is titled Underground (Longhand Press). He is the winner of the 2007 Mark Fischer Poetry Prize, awarded by the Telluride Writers Guild. Michael teaches in the Master of Arts Program for Prescott College and lives in Lafayette, CO with hi wife, Claire and their dog, Terra.
December 3 and 5, 2007 next.... Ken Arkind
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