STREETSIDE STORIES INC

Mission

Through the power of storytelling, Streetside Stories values and cultivates young people's voices, fostering educational equity to build community, literacy and arts skills.

Programs

Streetside Stories currently provides the following programs to our school and community partners: - The Storytelling Exchange uses storytelling and theater to help sixth graders write true stories about their lives. Student stories are published in a paperback anthology. - Tech Tales helps seventh graders write stories about their lives, and then transform them into short movies. Student movies are collected in a DVD and screened for the community. - Streetside After School helps first through eighth grade students tell the stories of their lives through writing, visual arts, blogging, photography, theater, and filmmaking. - Elementary School Storytelling Exchange brings storytelling and theater to the fifth grade. Students use the arts to write and share true stories. Stories are collected in individual books. - TALE (Tools for Arts and Literacy Education) helps educators use Streetside?s techniques. - Digital Teachers is a partnership with KIPP schools. Streetside provides training to teachers, who, in turn, help middle school students express themselves through digital storytelling.