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Calvin G. Sims

Calvin G. Sims, Sr.
Author, Lecturer Master StoryTeller

 

 

 

 

 


12 Years of Excellent
Educational Programming

1996 - 2008

 
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Master StoryTeller Calvin Sims at work

Award winning StoryTeller Calvin Sims at the Cumberland Gap (Tennessee) StoryTelling Festival - October 2003

Since 1996, StoryTellers of the American (SAF) has provided robust educational programming and is rapidly becoming the standard for arts-in-education programming.

Many schools have us each year. We often provide programming for high schoolers who first experienced our programming in their elementary school.

There is no school our educational organization too remote to enjoy this programming. SAF serves the education community from Savannah to San Francisco.

With great pride we offer our extensive track record and references.

Bacon County Elementary School March 2006
Going to Work: Bacon County Elementary School; Alma, Georgia

There is nothing that is more exciting and more American than the Cowboys, Indians and Mexicans who blazed the trails west.  We bring real western men and women to life in an exciting journey back in time with a sensational twist.  The men and women are all real and they are all Americans. 

Their stories are presented in a dramatic format that is as exciting as it is educational and informative.  Children and adults of all ages, gender and races delight in these colorful and visual images.  All presentations are upbeat positive and deliver a message with emphasis on Character and Integrity. 

The Customizable presentations can be formatted to be suitable to anti-drug, anti-violence, conflict resolution, family development and motivational needs. 

Whether you are an elementary, middle or high school, recreation center, youth development center, housing authority or other organization. 

STORYTELLERS can design the RIGHT program for you.

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Program Menu
We Offer a rich menu of programs that are powerful and unique

arrow Buckaroo Buddies [description]
arrow Citizenship Camp [description]
arrow Classroom/Assembly StoryTelling [description]
arrow Crafts Programs [description]
arrow Workshops [description]
arrow Black History Month All Year Long [description]

Base Pricing
(see the Funding & Fund Raising Program)

Everyone enjoys storytelling


StoryTelling

StoryTeller .........$250
Additional Sessions $150.00
Program Duration 30 - 45 minutes depending on grade level & Attention Span
no maximum class size

Giddy-Up Go! Pre-schooler Program
1 Sessions - 250.00
maximum class size: 50

Crafts Program (at least 1 storytelling session required)
$4.50 each Student...($150.00 minimum )
$50.00 Discount for 150 Students,   $100.00 Discount for 300 Students
Program Duration 30 - 45 minutes
no maximum class size
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Traveling Museum - add to any session(s) $100
no maximum class size


StoryTelling Workshop for Students or Teachers

Workshop ..........Students $250 - Teachers $350
Additional Workshop Sessions $150.00
Performance prior to workshops (required) $250
Program Duration 1 hour Students; 2 hours teachers

Maximum class size: 30


Buckaroo Buddies

This program is a combination of a subscription to the Buckaroo Buddies Activities Newsletter as well as a combination of In-School StoryTeller Sessions.

3 Sessions of StoryTelling $600
Subscription for the entire school $150 per month


Buckaroo Buddies
"A Pen Pal Program Like No Other."

This program is much more than a letter exchange. Of course there is the typical letter exchange, but there is so much more. Master StoryTeller Calvin Sims travels across American bringing his powerful imagery and making friends in schools from Savannah to San Francisco, from Miami to New York. Student Groups who participate in this unique program receive letters and post cards from some of the most exciting locations in our nation.

Students anxiously await each Month's Activity Workbook & Newsletter. This Workbook contains exciting activities that help students to apply their math, history, geography, writing, reading and penmanship skills to practical real life situations. Student activities include exercises and puzzlers that allow them to help the StoryTeller calculate mileage and distance. They actually help him to work out the logistics of his trips. Parents will be amazed when they take family outings at how much useful information their child can contribute.

The students even send the StoryTeller on scavenger hunts to historic sites and tourist locations. They are excited to receive his reports and findings.

Special pages for educators serve as a resource for the teacher/coordinator.

The excitement reaches explosive proportions when the StoryTeller arrives at the school and spends the whole day there telling stories.

There is no more exciting program in schools than Buckaroo Buddies.

Calvin Sims at RL Norris Elementary School
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Citizenship Camp
Build a Country; Build a Corporation, Build a Family

These are the three components of an amazing workshop. This program consists of discussions and activities that allow participants to gain practical experience in the responsibilities of success. Unlike most of the youth's experiences, the focus is not on the material privileges of success but on the responsibilities.

Students learn and practice the character and integrity required to function as an American Citizen.

The Build a Country module is based on the premise that the participants along with hundreds of survivors are stranded on a desert island. The group of them has been selected to form a country and create a government of laws. They are to establish agencies to serve and protect the people. The are to elect officers, set up departments, provide jobs and create an economy among other tasks.

The Build a Corporation module narrows the focus from a country to a major corporation. In the second module, youth are dealing with lifestyle and individual choices for the first time as they develop departments and interview candidates to fill vital human resource needs. Students have to make practical decisions based on budgets, demographics, marketing, goals, government regulations and more.

The focus is narrowed further. The lifestyle and individual choice issues are now major decision making factors. The students are given an opportunity to practice Adult life. They have careers to manage in addition to children and a household.

In addition to making decisions concerning the welfare of their family and household. Students must also be involved in their community in order to maintain their standard of life.

This program is the most powerful of all of our academic programs. There is also a version that is part of our Juvenile Delinquency Prevention & Treatment Program

Citizenship Camp

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Classroom/Assembly StoryTelling
Our most popular program.

Based on the universal fascination the world over has with all things Western, the American Cowboy is the most powerful, most recognized icon of all. The imagery of a bigger than life cowboy who is also a Teacher, who is also a StoryTeller, who's favorite pastime is reading and who may have brought his horse is an image to last a life times.

Bring history to life in your classroom or assembly. Exciting true stories of character and integrity introduces students to everyday, ordinary people who's vision spawned the greatest nation in the history of the world.

A Master StoryTeller dramatically weaves the life of these extraordinary men and women, American heroes all, in a way that is fun and exciting. You can almost hear the wagons roll or feel the campfire's glow.

The StoryTelling sessions are designed to raise the awareness of young people of the kind of people that their ancestor were. This program can also improve student involvement in classroom activities. These programs have been proven to encourage children to read.

Calvin Sims at work

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Crafts Program

An assortment of western crafts fashioned to replicate items from Frontier and Indian Lore. Craft materials include arrowheads, eagle talons, pony beads, concho's, bones and other items from the frontier.

Each craft has a positive spirit in the tradition of their lore. The spirit is a positive empowering spirit that teaches life's lessons in the five principals of success and long life.

  • Self Reliance [a self-esteem message]
  • Harmony [an anti-violence message]
  • Independence [an anti delinquency message]
  • Purity [an anti-drug anti-anger message]

    The craft assembly session is fun and exciting. While instructions are given, the story behind each symbol is dramatically revealed. Then, when the crafts is completed, there is a solemn ceremony where the spirits' powers are captured by each student. This empowering symbol is the student's reminder of the components of long life and success.

    The beautiful keepsake that they have the pride in having constructed themselves is a bonus.

    Field Trip at StoryTellers Ranch

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    Workshops

    What do you have in your Toolbox?

    Everyone of us is at one time or another a StoryTeller. The professional StoryTeller is different from the everyday ordinary StoryTeller in that he has mastered the tools that he carries in his tool box.

    If every one is a StoryTeller, does everyone have a tool box. The answer is most definitely. The toolbox is most certain to contain tools such as facial expression, gestures, voice inflection, pantomime and many, many more tools.

    Our Master StoryTellers can unlock the student's toolbox and help him/her discover a wealth of communications tools that can make him/her a more effective communicator.

    The object is to be able to tell a story or relate an event in such a compelling manner that the audience is compelled to hang on 'till the end of the story.

    The end result of this fun and powerful workshop is that even the most timid student is able to express him/her self in a much more expressive and dynamic way. Students also develop greater listening skills and are much more observant to the other more subtle forms of expression.

    This is a very energetic workshop with plenty of opportunities for the students to perform.

    There will always be at least one Professional StoryTeller in the room,
    Other StoryTellers are discovered at every session.

    Student involvement & interactive programming

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    Black History All Year Long
    Diversity at its Best - Unique & Powerful

    We bring African American Heroes to life before your student's eyes in a format that they will never forget.  They will learn of the struggle, the sacrifice and the adversity that were overcome, and they will come away with a valuable lesson in courage, persistence and honor.

    Whether the story of York, the slave who was a critical member of the Lewis & Clark Expedition, William Cathy/Cathy Williams the hero of the Apache Indian Wars or Bass Reeves the greatest lawman who ever lived - You won't see these stories on TV or at the movies - But They Are Real!!!

    The character and integrity of these amazing people is illustrated. Students are inspired by recognizing that their own character and integrity is the power within themselves that is the legacy left them by their ancestors, the men and women, black and white, Mexican and Native American, who built the greatest nation in the history of the world.

    Calvin G. Sims

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Date last updated: Sunday, July 27, 2008 3:43 PM


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