Story Based Learning

The Anne Frank Project delivers professional development opportunities in Story-Based Learning for K-12 and Higher Education teachers.  These training experiences focus on integrating kinesthetic learning with classroom curriculum to support and build the socio-emotional wellbeing of students and teachers.

“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”

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The Anne Frank Project offers a variety of Story-Based Learning options for students, teachers, schools, and systems.

  • Teachers in training with the Anne Frank Project

    Teacher Training

    SEMESTER-LONG RESIDENCIES

    Professional development in our Story-Based Learning curricular platform that provides tangible tools for classroom applications benefiting student learning and improving classroom culture.

  • Students at Lafayette High School watching a play by the Anne Frank Project

    School Tours

    K-12 AND HIGHER ED

    Buffalo State student created, performed and toured plays focus on the most pressing issues impacting our young people today. Performances are always supported by interactive workshops.

  • Students engaged in an exercise during MyStory Day with Anne Frank Project

    MyStory Day

    BUFFALO STATE UNIVERSITY

    Our social justice festival for local middle and high school students includes a day of workshops and performances that teach and inspire students to improve the world.

We provide teachers with tools and vocabulary to bring the power of Story-Based Learning into their classrooms and schools.

Story-Based Learning is an innovative, kinesthetic curricular platform with a primary objective of bringing the academic lessons from the student’s brains to their hearts using their bodies.  This approach is designed to simultaneously teach the academic lesson while also addressing the multiple socio-emotional needs of students; student’s feelings are essential partners to their thinking.  Students gain agency in their learning process by engaging fully in community building, conflict management, and identity exploration.

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The Anne Frank Project provides additional story-based learning opportunities for you and your students.

Holocaust survivor Sophia Veffer speaking at an event with the Anne Frank Project

SOPHIA’S LEGACY

Exposes working educators to the multiple lessons from the Holocaust, other Genocides, and current conflicts, and provides tools to bring these lessons into their schools and classrooms.

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Students at the Social Justice Festival from the Anne Frank Project

SOCIAL JUSTICE FESTIVAL

Three days of interactive workshops, performances, and art that teaches tools and vocabulary to improve the world’s stories. Annual academic ritual at Buffalo State University, free and open to the community.

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