Everybody wins something



Outcomes and Benefits

Schools:

  • LOL participation certificates
  • Competition portfolios
  • 120 story books*

Teachers:

  • 6-day workshop with a Professor from Harvard University (1 representative per school only)
  • THiNKSeries training certificates
  • Teaching handbooks
certificates

Students:

  • 1.5-hour workshop
  • Awards, LOL participation certificates
*Reading the digital versions of the Wiseman Classics is advised. You may read more Wiseman Classics here.

Professional Trainer from Harvard

Professor Doris Sommer

Professor Doris Sommer

Prof. Doris Sommer, the Director of the Cultural Agents Initiative at Harvard University, is an Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies.

Her academic and outreach work promotes development through the arts and humanities, specifically through the arts-based literacy pedagogy —Pre-Texts— in Boston Public Schools, throughout Latin America and beyond.

Teacher Training

Objectives
  • Integrate reading and assessment with language arts
  • Combine values and cognitive development
  • Facilitate student-centred learning and teaching
  • Stimulate collaborations among students and with teachers
  • Adopt an effective pedagogy for reading, writing, collaboration and creativity
Who Should Attend
  • Principals
  • Panel Heads
  • Teachers

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