Workshops and Trainings

Tellin' Stories can be contacted to tailor one of the following programs for your school community. For more information contact ts@teachingforchange.org or call (202) 588-7207 or 7219.

Between Families and Schools: Creating Meaningful Relationships engages participants in rethinking parent involvement and traditional approaches to parent-school relationships, and offers more effective alternatives.

Affirming Cultural Identity Through Sharing Stories demonstrates strategies for using the power of story to connect families across cultural, linguistic and racial divides and then engaging them as storytellers in the classroom.

Parent Advocacy: Asking the Right Questions teaches a powerful self-advocacy technique to address educational, social or economic issues developed by the Right Question Project, Inc. in Massachusetts.

Strategies Mobilized Parents Use to Improve their Schools arms participants with tools used by parent leaders to improve school facilities and energize school culture.

Other Tellin’ Stories' programs include Story Quilting, Setting up your Parent Center, Planning an Effective Parent Teacher Conference, Conflict Resolution, Storytelling, Bookmaking and Diversity Training.