Our ST/SA Network is a group of Monmouth and Ocean County early childhood professionals who work with children from the ages of 2 through 8. These teachers provide a process called ST/SA or “Doing Stories” in their classrooms.

Some participate in our study group and others communicate through email or at workshops.

The commonality among the teachers/providers is their interest in how children grow and learn through telling their own stories, having them written down and then acted out by their friends.

Time and again, teachers exclaim their astonishment at how the young children participate with such joy and enthusiasm. Even the most reluctant children, those who avoid many other activities, eagerly join into the wonderful oral tradition that storytelling/story acting creates.

Whether these early childhood professionals meet or “talk” via email, the connection they share has helped them grow “a head taller than themselves.”

Books by Vivian Paley:

White Teacher
Wally’s Stories
Boys and Girls: Superheroes in the Doll Corner
Mollie Is Three: Growing Up in School
Bad Guys Don’t Have Birthdays: Fantasy Play at Four
The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter
You Can’t Say You Can’t Play
Kwanzaa and Me
The Girl with the Brown Crayon
The Kindness of Children
A Child’s Work the Importance of Fantasy Play