{"id":66403,"date":"2022-01-20T16:51:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/?post_type=bu-article&#038;p=66403"},"modified":"2023-08-30T23:39:20","modified_gmt":"2023-08-31T03:39:20","slug":"neh-funds-summer-institute-for-high-school-teachers-on-the-power-of-storytelling-and-friendship","status":"publish","type":"bu-article","link":"https:\/\/id-kayla.cms-devl.bu.edu\/wheelock\/news\/articles\/2022\/neh-funds-summer-institute-for-high-school-teachers-on-the-power-of-storytelling-and-friendship\/","title":{"rendered":"NEH Funds Summer Institute for High School Teachers on Power of Storytelling and Friendship"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<div class=\"wp-block-editorial-leadin news-block-editorial-leadin has-media-focus-center-middle\">\n\t\t<div class=\"container-lockup\">\n\n\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-block-leadin-media\">\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-outer\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"container-words-inner\">\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"wp-prepress-tag\">Grants &amp; awards<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h1 class=\"head\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tNEH Funds Summer Institute for High School Teachers on Power of Storytelling and Friendship\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/h1>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\n\n\t\n<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar js-block-editorial-metabar news-prepress-layout-metabar\">\n\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-date\">January 20, 2022<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-credits\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"wp-prepress-component-metabar-share js-bu-prepress-share-tools\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-twitter\"><span>Twitter<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-facebook\"><span>Facebook<\/span><\/span>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"icon-action\"><\/span>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\n\n\n<p>Next summer, high school teachers will have the opportunity to explore the power of storytelling in influencing positive friendships among adolescents at a new institute, \u201cFriendship and Identity in Literature, Film, and Adolescence.\u201d The institute, which will take place July 10\u201322, 2022, at BU Wheelock, is funded by a National Endowment for the Humanities grant that was awarded to BU Wheelock associate professor emeritus Stephan Ellenwood and Karen Harris (\u201991, \u201917). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cStories in literature and film can help students to understand the nuances and complexities of their lives,\u201d explains Ellenwood. \u201cTeachers participating in the institute will enrich their teaching by learning how to draw from their own life stories and how to teach their own students to do the same.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Twenty-five high school teachers will work with both visiting and in-house scholars, including poet Robert Pinsky, developmental psychologist Niobe Way, and BU Wheelock\u2019s Bob Weintraub and Zach Rossetti. 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