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Dream
Ideas Fly at Teacher Workshop
January 26, 2008
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Last
week on Saturday, teachers from 15 schools
in the Philadelphia region gathered for a
first-time Dream Flag teacher workshop. It
was held at Belmont Hills Elementary School
in Bala Cynwyd, PA and hosted by Lower
Merion School District. From 9 to about
11:30 teachers from schools in central
Philadelphia, south Philadelphia, the
western suburbs, and the northern suburbs
sat together to hear about how the project
works in schools and what we can learn from
each other’s experiences. There was great
mix of new and returning schools. Some had
been doing it for five years; others were
trying it for the first time this year.
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Jeff
and Sandy gave an overview of the project
and the resources found on the web. Then
teachers did the hands-on segment of making
their own Dream Flags. Even teachers who had
done the project many times with students
could feel the excitement (and anxiety?) of
creating their own dream poem, putting it on
fabric, and bringing it to life with color.
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of Sandy and Jeff's Presentation
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WMV file
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Jeff and Sandy Handouts
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Dream
Flag Basics -- Poetry Teaching
Flag Making -- Hughes Poem Lesson Ideas
Connection Lesson Ideas -- Dream Flag Song
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After a
break, Melissa Thomas from John Wister
Elementary School in the Philadelphia
School District gave a presentation on the
amazing art and poetry integrations she’s
developed, working with students in 1st
through 8th grades in the Germantown area of
Philadelphia. Her school, John Wister
Elementary, has been doing The Dream Flag
Project for all five years and has received
grant funding to support it on several
occasions.
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Melissa's Handout
Overview
pdf
listing of poetry forms and
matching art inspirations
Senses
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Marissa
was followed by Mary Pat McFarland, Reading
Specialist at Belmont Elementary School in
the Lower Merion School District. Mary Pat
presented on the ways she worked to support
t teachers so that The Dream Flag Project
moved from a few classrooms in Belmont Hills
to the entire Lower Merion District. Last
year, more than thousands of students
participated in her district and connected
nearly all of their Dream Flags at the
Kimmel Center regional celebration.
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Mary Pat's Handouts
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ideas and materials for
school connections
district connections
community connections
technology
poetry resource web site
from Belmont Hills
great resources for
teaching
and writing poetry
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The Dream Flag concept
was created by sixth grade teachers Jeff
Harlan, Sandy Crow, Helen Holt and
others at
The Agnes Irwin School, Rosemont,
Pennsylvania, U.S. The Dream Flag
Project (www.dreamflags.org) is a
collaborative project facilitated by
Jeff Harlan and Sandy Crow. Contact
dreamflags@agnesirwin.org or Jeff
Harlan, Dream Flags Project Director,
The Agnes Irwin School, Ithan Ave. and
Conestoga Road, Rosemont, PA 19010, U.S.
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