Refugee Children, Performance-Based Activities, and the Primary Years Programme: Francie Wallace

Session: Refugee Children, Performance-Based Activities, and the Primary Years Programme

Francie Wallace has been teaching ESOL to refugee students since 1998. At the International Community School in Decatur, she has also taught Research and Debate as well as Speech and Drama electives to fifth and sixth graders. Storytelling, writing, and performance are at the core of her Primary Years Programme curriculum. In 1990, she wrote, co-directed, and danced in Hope Held Captive, a multi-language work about Rigoberta Menchu performed at Atlanta's 7 Stages theatre. Ms Wallace is also a published poet, collaborating with other artists to create a mythological paradigm for performance to help raise consciousness about the health of our planet.