Bringing Civic Engagement to Your Classroom…

The official I Wish to Say curriculum has been carefully crafted in collaboration between artist Sheryl Oring and Director of Curriculum Robert Rose of S&D Educational Learning Resources.

The official I Wish to Say curriculum has been formatted in an easy-to-navigate curriculum guide package for classes across subject matters such as Civics, ELA, Creative Writing, and Visual Arts. Included in the curriculum guide packages are all the training and supplemental resources a teacher will need to not only teach about public performance art but to foster civic engagement in their classroom in productive and constructive implementation.

Together we have looked closely at the I Wish to Say project and found a tried and true retrofit for students grades 6 through 12. The official curriculum is grounded in the National Visual Arts Standards, centered around 21st Century Skills, focused on student experiential learning, and supported by three educational pillars:

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Implementation Strategies

Assessment and Reflection

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In the Classroom

Elana Anderson

New York, NY 

Dean of Community Engagement & Social Justice at The Abraham Joshua Heschel School  

Elana incorporated the I Wish to Say project into her school's curriculum during the 2020 school year. 

Robert Rose

Art teacher at RJ Reynolds High School

Winston-Salem, NC

Robert first worked with Sheryl Oring in 2016 as a project assistant during a large-scale version of I Wish to Say in New York City. As an art teacher in North Carolina, Robert has incorporated Sheryl's project into his classroom curriculum with both middle school and high school students.

North Carolina student messages.

The kids approached this as a truly honest open forum that let them speak as who they are in a really genuine way just like they did in Sheryl Oring’s official project,”
— Elana

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