emotional literacy

thINK Draw Connect Learn: Face Cards!

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Back in the late 1990s, in collaboration with certain teachers, mentors and schools I was working with at the time, I modified my cartoon-drawing workshops into a comprehensive modular program that encouraged students to think more deeply about Emotional Communication, while teaching them hands-on drawing skills. This format became central to my teaching work in […]

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Creative Communication: Cartooning for Emotional Literacy

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Plenty of cartoonists have offered ‘how-to-draw’ workshops on ways to capture emotion in cartoon faces.  Often the ‘workshop’ is more of a demonstration or performance – the style is quick and sketchy, a quick fix intended to entertain rather than offer a genuine learning experience. Of course, plenty of kids enjoy it, but this approach

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