 
After-School Opportunities
The WCSD After-School Program meets for twenty sessions (twice a week for ten weeks). Participants hear world folktales and true stories about children who are the agents of positive change. Students conduct a “personal inventory” to identify their strengths. They learn storytelling skills and the program culminates in a student storytelling festival or a book of student stories. But that is not all.
Through town meetings students identify the community action they will manage. Past community action projects include designing a Community of Hope Quilt for The Amherst Survival Center, sewing pillowcases for children at the Athol-Orange Family Shelter, raising Salmon eggs to encourage salmon re-population in the Connecticut River.
Our "ready-made" After-School Programs meet the National Standards for Language Arts with many opportunities for reading, writing and telling stories.
Every program includes:
- Multiple storytelling performances by a professional storyteller
- Facilitation of community service project
- Teaching storytelling techniques
- Creation of a final student performance or project
- Specific outcomes and assessment tools that can be created based on your school's requirements
Making Connections
WCSD facilitates school visits by experts, community members and non-profit leaders to deepen program participants’ awareness, compassion, and understanding about issues relating to their community service projects.
Final Projects
In an After-School setting students have the choice to participate in a final performance or to create a final written piece to share. This final sharing with the community may include parents and/or other after-school classes. For those who wish to pursue storytelling, additional opportunities to practice and perform are often available.
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