“I have been shoved, pushed, bitten, spat on, not to mention having profanity that you could not imagine hurled at me by young people. But what is the main goal here?”
-Koli Tengela
Koli Tengella teaches theatre arts at Collington Square School of the Arts. He shares his experiences and insights on this week’s edition of The Signal
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- Nine years of teaching theatre arts in the Baltimore Public School System has given Koli Tengella plenty to ponder. He’s studied the kids, their parents, his fellow teachers, and himself, and he talks with us about what he’s discovered along the way – that real, meaningful educational breakthroughs can’t necessarily be measured by test scores.
- Author Janie Suss has spent her life living on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay. We talk with her about her new book, Oscar and Olive Osprey : A Family Takes Flight, a story in which she explores the pleasures of watching a young couple build a nest and a family on her backyard pier.
- And writer Geoffrey Becker discusses his new novel, Hot Springs, the story of a child, her adoptive parents, her birth mother, and a kidnapping that turns their lives upside down.
HELPFUL LINKS:
Koli Tengella’s story is part of a special series called Ear to the Ground, a yearlong documentary project made possible by Open Society Institute-Baltimore. You can hear the rest of the stories in the series by clicking here.
Here’s a link to more about Janie Suss’ book, Oscar and Olive Osprey : A Family Takes Flight
And here’s a link to more info about Geoffrey Becker’s new novel, Hot Springs, a book that earned high praise form the New York Times Book Review