Workshops

A Knowledgeable Workshop Leader

Karen Pillsworth has written articles about storytelling for Storytelling Magazine and the recently published book The Storytelling Classroom: Applications Across the Curriculum.

Karen's workshops include:

• Storyteller Laureate: Drawing the community together to connect the stories
• Once Upon a Classroom: Introducing storytelling into your classroom
• The Story Hat: Integrating storytelling across the curriculum
• Storytelling, Math & Science: Making the connection

Karen has also taught "The Art of Storytelling" at Ulster County Community College and "Discovering the Stories Within Us" at the Ulster Performing Arts Center’s Expanding Horizon’s Art and Education Center.

Karen has given workshops for:

• National Association for the Education of Young Children Annual Conference
• NY State Reading Conference
• NY State AEYC Annual Conference
• Mid-Hudson Teacher Center
• Tenth Annual Literacy Conference, Mount Saint Mary College and the Amy Bull Crist Reading Council
• Coalition of Multicultural Education
• SUNY New Paltz Environmental Center
• Ulster Literacy
• Kingston City Schools
• Americorp Volunteers
• Sharing the Fire, the conference of the League for the Advancement of New England Storytelling
• Fiction Among Friends – Writers and Storyteller’s Retreat, Adirondack Mountain Writer’s and Story Workshops