Jourdan Keith
Organization Details
| Name | Jourdan Keith |
| URL | http://www.urbanwildernessproject.org/about.htm |
Organization Description
| Mission statement | Urban Wilderness WORKS to restore our communities, cultural and environment by creating access to service-learning projects rooted in social change. Participants earn service-learning hours through the Wilderness Works and Griot Works programs. Urban Wilderness PROJECT™ develops curriculum and workshops for a changing society. By combining experiential-learning with the arts, participants move through the intersection of environmental health, social justice, culture and the natural world. |
| Service(s) description | Literary Art or Spoken Word/Performance Poetry, Storytelling Writing/Performance. I teach through a cultural lens focusing on storytelling traditions of African, Irish, Native, and African-American people to create new forms that incorporate current performance/spoken word styles. Speculative fiction, Afro-Futurism, and creative non-fiction forms engage high school learners. I present poetry forms from haiku to hip hop using mentor texts from ancient writers through the Native-American, Chicano, and Harlem Renaissance and positive local artists. I focus on how forms originate, evolve and adopted across cultures and globally. |
| Program impact | not provided |
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Academic Learning (1 program)
Programs that support and reinforce school-day academic instruction within any subject area - language arts, career and technical education, math, science/technology, visual and performing arts, physical education, health education, ethnic studies, social studies, and world languages - in alignment to the curriculum and academic goals for students and the district.