Carole A. Winston
to the WSSU Maya Angelou Institute which will sponsor the attendance of Petree Elementary School’s third grade classes to the Winston-Salem Symphony’s January 24, 2009 performance of Peter and the Wolf Meet Alice in Wonderland, to be performed in the University’s Kenneth R. Williams Auditorium. We are so excited about bringing the children and their parents to the concert as part of our mission to “improve child and family education,” said Carole Winston, director of the institute. Prior to the concert, the Institute will donate books related to the concert topic to the third-grade teachers to help them prepare the children for the event and to use in their curriculum of writing assignments. The MAI’s current initiatives are geared towards improving literacy for early learners through a variety of experiences, including music, art and dance appreciation, parent-child reading opportunities, and mentoring experiences that include reading and writing events. Several members of both Real Men Teach and Black Men of Change are currently mentoring students at Petree Elementary. They will take part in this event by chaperoning, sponsoring, and reading to those students who attend the concert.
