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Barnstable students publish essays, get arts grant through Max Courage partnership
Summary
Barnstable Intermediate School teachers and students described a multi-year partnership with the Max Courage Foundation that led to student publications, a $5,000 Massachusetts Cultural Council grant for arts integration, and field trips funded to support an SEL writing program.
Barnstable Intermediate School staff told the school committee May 7 that a multi-year partnership with the Max Courage Foundation has produced student publications and new arts-integrated programming funded by grants.
Mike Andrews, a sixth-grade English teacher at BIS, told the committee the Max Courage curriculum teaches social-emotional learning through long-form personal narrative and culminates in a blind-judged essay anthology. "Max Courage…
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