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Improvisational Etiquette, the Community Environmental Leadership Program, and Valuing Voice within the Classroom

Joey Sabljic

Published: 2010-11-19

This article provides an overview of the Community Environmental Leadership Program (CELP), a for-credit, multidisciplinary learning experience in which grade ten students become stewards for the environment. The program is then compared to the unwritten codes of "improvisational etiquette," with its ability to construct a learning environment where, as in the dynamics of improvised jazz, each individual student voice is heard and given equal value.

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...partly because I know that’s the only way that we could solve a creative problem [using improvisation with children ranging in abilities] and what doesn’t work is trying to impose a template on the students who are not able to respond to that template.

– Pauline Oliveros (in working with Abilities First)