Art & Culture Live!: Community Collaborations - David Greenberg-Civil Rights/Poetry
David Greenberg-Civil Rights/Poetry brought Greenberg to several school districts in the SELCO region and was coordinated by Stewartville Public Schools (Stewartville, MN). Greenberg gave presentations on civil rights based upon his historical novel, A Tugging String. The presentation described the attitudes, emotions, events and personalities of the civil rights movement and how Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. peacefully helped to move America from a time of great racial injustice to a time with an African American as president. An alternative program was available for younger students that detailed poetry on the civil rights movement.
Event Dates and Locations:
May 17, 2010 – Greenberg gave four presentations at Stewartville Public Schools (Stewartville, MN)
May 18, 2010 – Greenberg gave three presentations at Kingsland Public Schools (Spring Valley,MN)
May 19, 2010 – Greenberg gave three presentations at Chatfield Public Schools (Chatfield, MN)
May 20, 2010 – Greenberg gave four presentations at Grand Meadow Public Schools (Grand Meadow, MN)
May 21, 2010 – Greenberg gave two presentations at Kasson-Mantorville Elementary School (Kasson, MN)
Partner Organization(s):
Chatfield Public Schools
Grand Meadow Public Schools
Kasson-Mantorville Pubic Schools
Kingsland Public Schools
Partner Organization(s) Contribution/Role in the Program: Partnering schools coordinated schedules for bringing in Greenberg and provided the space for the program.
Program Outputs: Outputs are things you can count such as attendance, number of new participants, and the number of attendees who had never been at a similar event, and so on.
The programs had individual attendance rates as follows:
Kasson-Mantorville – 112 students
Grand Meadow – 228 students
Chatfield – 204 students
Kingsland – 626 students
Stewartville – 1,300 students.
The total for the 16 programs was 2,470 students and 112 adults. The composition of students was 96% Caucasian, 1% African American, 1% Asian, and 1% Hispanic.
Measurable Outcomes may be collected by survey, anecdotal responses, post-test; End user change in Behavior, Attitude, Skills, Knowledge, Condition and/or Status
Following each program, a group of students would voluntarily decide to talk to Greenberg about his presentation. From the surveys, many of the students were not aware of the struggles and sacrifices involved in the Civil Rights movement and felt better educated on it after the presentation. Additionally, three staff members requested Greenberg return to perform writing workshops with the students.