Sometimes ... you are like looking for a blog to add to an e-mail that you are sending to County Commissioners to try and score a wall for a teen mural project on restorative justice and the school-to-prison cycle (because “pipeline” is a culturally violent term) ... and you don’t find said blog, but you find this gem that was published a month ago about work you did a few years back.
Laura Marcus Green and Tara Trudell were my partners in rhyme as we fitted a performance workshop series for Santa Fe ¡YouthWorks! My four week module was part of a much larger curriculum that the students were engaged in, however I was happy to integrated into the incredible work of the Museum of International Folk Art, the Gallery of Conscience, Santa Fe Youth Media Project, Warehouse 21 and ¡YouthWorks!. It is a powerful, collective impact approach that allows students to grow the muscles of partnership by practice. It’s more than just point students towards resources, it is “the doing” and the repeated “doing” that builds trust, new routines, new relationships, new practices, new behaviors and the new muscles of self and success.
I won’t try to rewrite their comprehensive blog of the program objectives and outcomes, you can check it out at Community Works Institute’s LA RiverLore Blog and at Medium.
“Powerful learning with social purpose connecting students to their local community.” - LA RiverLore
