Why Aesop's Workshop? The answer is simple,to reduce anomia -ie!

What can be said about Aesop's Workshop?

1. It is pro-active.
2. It promotes Listening Comprehension.
3. It inspires Reading and Writing. Hence: "Writer's Club and Guild."
4. It integrates with "Reading Block" and Language Arts.

More importantly, Aesop's Workshop, at its core, is "Biblotherapy" using fables, parables, and allegories with relevant song, dance, and art to start...It's "Synergy Across the Curriculum."

It's been said, "It takes more than policies and laws to cultivate and promote helping behaviors and moral consciousness." Therefore, the implications found in Aesop's Workshop is that if a student reflects on a moral issue before being involved, s/he is more likely to behave in accordance with his or her conscience when facing that issue in real life. Moral reflection and discussion found in the 'Shop' is designed to enhance the ethical quality of any future choice.

The maxim, "Tell me and I forget; show me and I remember; involve me and I learn" is evident in "Aesop's Workshop." It provides educators and opportunity to train the will of students and others who listen and participate. It is a living program that is flexible. The intent is to engage the mind and body, because boredom occurs when one's feelings are not involved or aroused.

To stimulate emotional congruency, word power, music, drama, and art is used. To understand the presence of the 'Shop' in a school setting, fables read and dramatized are the foundation and structure for all other disciplines to rest upon. Through poetically written fables/allegories and psycho-drama, we are drawn into the storyline to discover through self-reflection, our own well-being. Music and song is used to motivate, attenuate, and substantiate the participant's being. The use of plush animals, paper puppets, and staging engages students in character building while executing sensory memory play. The sentences are lyrical, using rhyming words to stimulate and build reading and writing skills.

• Environmental Note: Aesop's Workshop goes GREEN reducing carbon emissions to minimize a school's CARBON FOOTPRINT. Think of BIG FOOT downsizing.
• To make this happen, Aesop's Workshop employs CDs for big screen viewing and schoolhouse printing and publishing under one roof employing a site-license.

As you explore further, unraveling the threads that embodies Aesop's Workshop, it was created for educators whose experience, knowledge, and training, values pedagogic methods, idealism, and pragmatic heroism. Educators are the lightening that strikes the anvil inside a student's mind that's receptive.

Ben Franklin wrote: "Well done is better than well said."