Susie Wilde’s 5 secrets for successful residencies:
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Show, don’t tell (show students how to write before expecting them to create)
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Draw on the power of collaboration (make writing a team sport)
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Create meaning by linking reading, writing, thinking and talking (discussion and analysis improve comprehension)
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Use play to amp up fun and decrease fears (writing activities offered as games lets all students win)
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Offer little bites, not big gulps (avoid writing overwhelm)
Pangeo puppet created in a combined music-art-dance-residency at Scroggs Elementary School
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Residencies become even more powerful when stories find expression through other arts. All creative processes and forms share a great number of parallels. Dual residencies allow students to see these similarities whether the medium is visual art, music, dance, or theater. This type of project-based learning creates deeper more meaningful experiences and the extended time spent in a dual residency makes life-long memories a certainty. Susie Wilde has collaborated with musicians, dramatists and visual artists who use different mediums. Each project has produced satisfying results for all concerned. See some examples below.
There’s a magic that comes in the composition of a collaborative story, but a secondary enchantment enters with individual artistic expression as children create handmade books.
Susie has collaborated on handmade books and over a dozen Story Quilts with textile artist, 
