Sarah Malone, New Mexico Storyteller
Sarah Malone is a storyteller from New Mexico who has compiled a CD of peace tales, poetry, and music entitled "Holding Up the Sky: Peace Tales for Kids." Lessons in forgiveness, honesty, friendship and peacemaking are provided through the magic of story. Throughout the day, during intervals in the program agenda, she told stories from her collection. The CD can be ordered online from her website, listed on the following page of Info Fair participants.
United Nations International School (UNIS) Junior 3 Chorus.
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| UNIS Choir |
The United Nations International School provides an international education that emphasizes academic excellence within a caring community for kindergarten through twelfth-grade students from families of the United Nations and the international and greater New York communities.
The Junior 3 Chorus, made up of third-grade students, is under the direction of Brenda Bush and meets every Thursday morning before school. This was their first public performance outside of their school.
The students performed dressed in their national costumes. Their program began with "The United Nations Chant" arranged by Joan Litman and featured selections that complemented the international focus of the Conference.
CTAUN's 2003 Best Practices Award.
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| From left-to-right: Raymond Sommereyns, Phyllis Hickey and Anne-Marie Carlson |
Awards for the best educational practices developed from the 2003 CTAUN Conference were presented by Phyllis Hickey, Second Vice Chair of CTAUN and principal of St. Mary School in Putnam, CT, and Raymond Sommereyns, Director, UN Department of Public Information's Outreach Division.
The theme of the 2003 Conference was "Literacy Now: Building an Educated World." The awards were given to two educators who had developed and implemented programs in keeping with the theme over the past year:
Joan S. Monk, Teacher, Yonkers Public Schools, Yonkers, NY — "Passport to the World" — a project using the power of fairy tales to move from inner peace to world peace.
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| Raymond Sommereyns announces that Joan S. Monk is a "Best Practices" award recipient |
Libby Curran, Kearsage Area Children of Hope, Concord, NH — a multi-cultural reading buddy program.
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| Libby Curran and her group receiving the other "Best Practices" award |
Info Fair
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| UNICEF table at the Info Fair |
CTAUN's Info Fair was held from 12:15 to 2 p.m. in a public exhibit area. Informational resources about programs designed to address problems of poverty were made available for educators. Books, posters and leaflets that explain projects, along with CDs and other media of use to educators were made available to Conference attendees.
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| Woman standing near Heifer's info table |
Websites for the organizations whose representatives spoke on the above panels as well as others who exhibited material on the Conference theme of interest to educators at the Info Fair are listed here.
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