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River of Words
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- River of Words
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- Berkeley CA
- United States 94710
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- +1.5105487636
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River of Words is a California-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. We’ve been conducting training workshops for teachers, park naturalists, grassroots groups, state resource agencies, librarians and others since 1995, helping them to incorporate observation-based nature exploration and the arts into their work with young people. In addition to helping improve children’s literacy—and cognitive skills like investigation and critical thinking—River of Words’ multidisciplinary, hands-on approach to education nurtures students’ creative voices as well, through instruction and practice in art and poetry.
Our goal is to get kids excited about learning, and to connect informed and engaged citizens with businesspeople, government agencies, and learning communities, working together toward common, self-defined goals.
Perhaps the best way to understand our impact and mission is to view some of the poems and artwork created by children around the world. These extraordinary works have been submitted to our free, annual environmental poetry and art contest, conducted in affiliation with The Library of Congress Center for the Book. The contest theme is watersheds, a meaningful, scalable way of looking at the whole of nature. We accept poems in English, Spanish and American Sign Language (submitted on videotape). And through the universal language of art—painting, drawing, and photography—students learn not only about their own homegrounds but, in sharing their work with each other, about other bioregions and cultures, as well.
