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Teaching Oklahoma City kids takes improvisation

 
By Carrie Coppernoll | Published: February 12, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment
photo - Volunteer John Semtner talks to Jerry Preston, 7, left, and LaRoy Doolittle, 7, during an after-school program called Paseo Edgemere Educational Partnerships at Edgemere Elementary School in Oklahoma City. PHOTO By NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN
Volunteer John Semtner talks to Jerry Preston, 7, left, and LaRoy Doolittle, 7, during an after-school program called Paseo Edgemere Educational Partnerships at Edgemere Elementary School in Oklahoma City. PHOTO By NATE BILLINGS, THE OKLAHOMAN

Hundreds of children were romping around the Edgemere Elementary School cafeteria, flinging their backpacks and running like a herd of wildebeests.

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→The Paseo Edgemere Educational Partnership, called PEEPs for short, is a pilot program that began this semester. The partnership between the Paseo Arts District with nearby Edgemere Elementary School helps give students an outlet for artistic expression and learning.

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→To help with Paseo educational programs such as PEEPs, call the Paseo Arts District at 525-2688.

The room was packed to the brim with kindergarteners, first- and second-graders. It was wall-to-wall squiggling, squirming and shouting. This was insanity. How would the other volunteer and I be able to wrangle them in? We started by taking roll.

There were 14 kids. Only 14? It seemed like so many more — so many, many more.

Bless schoolteachers.

A friend and I went to help teach an art class with the Paseo Edgemere Educational Partnership, called PEEPs, for short. The pilot program began this semester. It partners artists from Paseo Arts District with students at nearby Edgemere Elementary for an after-school lesson. The program will culminate with an art show later this semester. The partnership is a great idea, and hopefully it will continue and set an example for other neighborhoods and schools in the city.

The day I went, the art teacher needed a substitute to fill in.

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