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Making and Sharing Our COVID Stories, an NWP Beyond Storytime CoLab
Summary:
After a full year of COVID, and the overlapping pandemics of violence against Black lives and attacks on Democracy, a group of educators and writers come back together at Beyond Storytime CoLab to share and consider what we have made, why we have made it, and the stories these objects carry for ourselves and others. Originally published on March 18, 2021Download | Subscribe: Apple / Spotify / Soundcloud
After a full year of COVID, and the overlapping pandemics of violence against Black lives and attacks on Democracy, a group of educators and writers come back together at Beyond Storytime CoLab to share and consider what we have made, why we have made it, and the stories these objects carry for ourselves and others. See what we have learned, what we chose to carry forward, and how these objects and decisions inform our vision of teaching writing as well as our collective storytelling and history-making.
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This post is part of the Beyond Storytime: When Teachers, Authors, and Illustrators Meet collection.
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