As a recipient of a Fund for Teachers Grant, I have the opportunity to embark on a learning fellowship by attending The Creativity Workshop in Chania, Crete. This workshop is offered all over the world and its purpose is to help people become more creative through writing, storytelling, photography, and drawing. With the heavy emphasis on standardized testing in schools today, it seems the fun, creative side of teaching has gone to the wayside. I'm hoping that this workshop will provide some fresh ideas for arts-infusion that I can share with the teachers at my school. In addition, as a Reading Specialist, I will spend a portion of my day helping struggling readers. These reluctant readers are sometimes difficult to get hooked, so maybe The Creativity Workshop will help me to get my students excited about literacy, even in the toughest of times.
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