StoryLand Adventures!
Schoool Residencies
listen → move → retell → create → perform.
As a bilingual storyteller and teaching artist, I transform classrooms into creative storytelling adventures. Every residency is thoughtfully designed to support curriculum standards while engaging students through folktales, puppets, movement, music, and hands-on arts integration.
From Pre-K through high school, students strengthen literacy, communication, creativity, critical thinking, and collaboration as they explore stories from around the world. Each residency is tailored to your school's needs, creating meaningful learning experiences that are both academically enriching and deeply engaging.
Ready to inspire your students?
Let's create something magical together.
Animal Story Adventures
PreK- 1st Grade
In this interactive 3–4-day residency, young learners explore animal folktales through storytelling, puppetry, movement, music, and imaginative play. As students listen, predict, retell, create, and perform, they develop early literacy, oral language, sequencing, and collaboration skills while discovering animal stories.
Each residency is tailored to the participating grade level and aligned with curriculum standards, culminating in joyful student storytelling and puppet performances.
Curriculum Connections: Early Literacy • Reading Comprehension • Story Structure • Sequencing • Speaking & Listening • Vocabulary • Character Development • Creative Drama • Puppetry • Movement • Arts Integration
Experience: ✓ Presented in 13 elementary classrooms across North Carolina and Maryland through TAPAS and Story Tapestries.
Schools: Ira B. Jones Elementary (2024 & 2025) • Hall Fletcher Elementary (2026) • Kids MCS, Rockville, Maryland (2026)
Native American Tales
2nd to 4th Grade
In this interactive 3–4-day residency, students explore Native American folktales through storytelling, puppetry, movement, collaborative games, and creative drama. As they listen, retell, create, and perform, students strengthen literacy, sequencing, speaking, collaboration, and creative thinking while learning about the cultures behind each story.
Each residency is adapted to the participating grade level and aligned with curriculum standards, culminating in student performances featuring their own handmade puppets.
Curriculum Connections: Reading Comprehension • Story Structure • Folktales & Diverse Cultures • Speaking & Listening • Sequencing • Character Development • Collaboration • Puppetry • Creative Drama • Arts Integration
Experience: ✓ Presented in 6 elementary classrooms through TAPAS.
Schools: Isaac Dixon Elementary (2025) • Lucy S. Herring Elementary (2026)
Cosmic Tales
3rd Grade
In this interactive 3–4-day residency, students explore the Sun, Moon, planets, and constellations through world myths, puppetry, movement, and creative storytelling. As they listen, compare, create, rehearse, and perform, students deepen their understanding of Earth and space science while strengthening literacy, communication, creativity, and collaboration.
Each residency is aligned with curriculum standards and concludes with student performances featuring original puppet-based retellings of celestial tales.
Curriculum Connections: Earth & Space Science • Solar System • Moon Phases • Constellations • Reading Comprehension • Story Structure • Folktales & World Cultures • Speaking & Listening • Creative Drama • Puppetry • Collaboration • Arts Integration
Experience: ✓ Presented in 3 elementary classrooms through TAPAS.
School: Lucy S. Herring Elementary (2026)
World Story Adventures
5th Grade
In this interactive 3–4-day residency, students travel the world through folktales, legends, and literary stories while strengthening literacy through storytelling, creative writing, puppetry, movement, and dramatic play. As they listen, analyze, write, create, rehearse, and perform, students build communication, collaboration, creativity, and cultural understanding.
Each residency is aligned with curriculum standards and concludes with student storytelling performances featuring original puppet-based adaptations inspired by stories from around the world.
Curriculum Connections: Reading Comprehension • Story Structure • Folktales & World Literature • Character Analysis • Theme • Creative Writing • Speaking & Listening • Puppetry • Creative Drama • Cultural Awareness • Collaboration • Arts Integration
Experience: ✓ Presented in 3 fifth-grade classrooms through TAPAS.
Selected School: Isaac Dixon Elementary (2025)
Custom Residencies
Don't see exactly what you're looking for? Let's create it together!
In addition to the elementary residencies featured above, I've also developed and facilitated residencies for middle and high school students, including Playing with Old Heroes, Gods, and Legendary Phantoms (Grade 7), Exploring Eerie Folklore (Grade 12), and Identities (Grade 10).
Whether you'd like to adapt one of my existing programs or develop an entirely new residency, I'd love to collaborate with you. Together, we can design an arts-integrated experience that supports your curriculum, reflects your students' interests, and meets your school's unique goals.
Let's create something extraordinary together!
