Regenerating Our Offspring Through Stories, Inc. (ROOTS)

Joann Frasier Dasent, founder of Regenerating Our Offspring Through Stories, Inc. (ROOTS), recently visited Anna B. Day School in Philadelphia, PA. While at the school, she visited two third grade classrooms, where she presented students with copies of ‘The Best Dictionary for Students’ and told them about the history behind the Dictionary Project. ROOTS first participated in the Dictionary Project in 2005. Since then,...
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ROOTS, INC. Brings Dictionaries and the Art of Storyingtelling

Regenerating Our Offspring Through Stories, Inc. (ROOTS) distributed 50 dictionaries to third grade students in Pennypacker School in Philadelphia, PA. ROOTS is an organization founded on the preservation of knowledge, wisdom and customs from traditional African village griots. Its aim is to share these traditions and customs through storytelling in U.S. communities, libraries and schools. ROOTS strives “to connect our past to the present...
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