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Monday, June 16, 2008

Once Upon a School - Dave Eggers

Once Upon a School

  • Once Upon a School is challenging adults to support their local public schools. Our goal is to collect 1,000 stories told by those who participate.
  • We started with after-school tutoring as the foundation of 826 Valencia in San Francisco. But the volunteer corps grew so quickly and broadly — within a year we had 1100 tutors, from hundreds of occupations — that we were able to dream of many other ways to work with students, schools, teachers, and parents.
  • We were able to begin hosting daily field trips where students learned story writing, editing and bookmaking. We were able to send tutors into schools all over the city at a teacher’s behest. We were able to host nightly workshops, open to all, taught by professionals. We were able to give four yearly college scholarships and a monthly teacher award (attached to a monetary grant). We were able to publish paperback and hardcover books of student work, in addition to producing dozens of newspapers, chapbooks, student films, plays, radio shows and websites.

Posted by Miguel Guhlin at 11:47 AM
Edited on: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:06 PM
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