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Partnership for Appalachian Girls' Education The Partnership for Appalachian Girls' Education (PAGE) is a non-profit creating an educational enrichment program for Appalachian girls and young women.

To wrap up our Literature Group spotlight, we're featuring College Intern Hannah Brown and her students, who read "The A...
07/16/2026

To wrap up our Literature Group spotlight, we're featuring College Intern Hannah Brown and her students, who read "The Amazing Maurice and his Educated Rodents" by Terry Pratchett.

Throughout their session of reading this text, PAGE students were able to dive deeper into themes such as the power of storytelling, the importance of collaboration & coexistence with others, and the concept of empathy.

For their Creative Collaboration Final Project, Hannah's students decorated and illustrated their own story books, based on either real of fictional events.

Next up in our Literature Group showcase, we're highlighting College Intern Piper Esmon and her students. They read "Out...
07/15/2026

Next up in our Literature Group showcase, we're highlighting College Intern Piper Esmon and her students. They read "Out of My Mind" by Sharon M. Draper.

This story focuses on themes such as the power of self-expression, perseverance in the face of adversity, and the dangers of assuming someone's capabilities based only on how they look.

For their Creative Connections Final Project, these students first chose their favorite chapter from the text, then illustrated comic strips based off of them.

As the bedrock of PAGE, our literature groups continue to offer students the opportunity to read together and to explore...
07/14/2026

As the bedrock of PAGE, our literature groups continue to offer students the opportunity to read together and to explore deeper thematic prompts that connect them to their inner worlds and those of their peers.

June's Literature Groups were as wonderful as always! This week, we'll be highlighting all the hard work that our College Interns put into making these groups come to life.

First is College Intern Emily Allison's group who dove into "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell. Through this text, students explored themes of survival, self-reliance, forgiveness, and connecting with nature.

For their Creative Connections Final Project, this group created an "artifact museum", full of student-made art pieces that represented the connections that they have to the places they call home.

We're back with our final June Story Lab project: writing and performing monologues with human rights educator Karen Rob...
07/09/2026

We're back with our final June Story Lab project: writing and performing monologues with human rights educator Karen Robinson & creating "crankies" with local artist Primrose Coke!

This project consisted of two parts, the first revolving around aspects of storytelling and performance. Under Karen’s guidance, our students crafted a monologue inspired by from stories they collected from Madison county changemakers. They chose to create a monologue featuring Mitchell and Farrah from Rare Bird Farm, telling the story of their journey that built the music and cultural space.

Once their monologue was written, students joined Primrose in her workspace at Marshall High Studios to create a "crankie", or a scrolling storytelling device. Over the course of a week, PAGE students worked together to storyboard, outline, and ink their crankie.

These two pieces were performed during PAGE’s final exhibition upstairs at the Madison County Arts Council on the last Friday in June.

Our Story Lab this summer was a huge success! PAGE students were able to learn from so many change makers within our community, and they all had a blast working on their projects.

Be on the lookout next week, when we'll be highlighting the literature groups from session one!

Next up with our June Story Lab features, our students created a Free Little Art Gallery (FLAG) to be displayed outside ...
07/08/2026

Next up with our June Story Lab features, our students created a Free Little Art Gallery (FLAG) to be displayed outside the Madison County Arts Council building in downtown Marshall!

With the help of local craftsperson & furniture maker Patterson O'Sullivan , PAGE students were able to flex their creative muscles by working with each other to design and build the gallery.

You can see their hard work on display now outside the MCAC building! Each PAGE student created their own art to add to the gallery. Everyone is encouraged to both leave pieces of art and take ones that they love.

That’s a wrap on our June Story Lab, “Innovating Places: Becoming a Changemaker Through Art” led and facilitated by life...
07/07/2026

That’s a wrap on our June Story Lab, “Innovating Places: Becoming a Changemaker Through Art” led and facilitated by life-long educator and multi-media artist Kerstin Davis.

To celebrate, we'll be posting profiles of the three Story Lab projects our students completed!

First up: our collaboration with long-time community partner Marshall High Studios on their brand new directory. With the help of print artist Trish Marshall of the Community Make Space, this group has tons of fun designing, building, type-setting, and printing the directory, which is now on view at the studios.

We're back with another incredible intern to spotlight - Berea Senior, Hannah Brown!We've had so many incredible Berea s...
05/28/2026

We're back with another incredible intern to spotlight - Berea Senior, Hannah Brown!

We've had so many incredible Berea students over the years, and we're thrilled for Hannah to be joining us this summer.

Say, "Hey, Hannah! "

We're back again with another intern spotlight! Today, we're welcoming Emily Allison, a Queens University Senior. We can...
05/27/2026

We're back again with another intern spotlight! Today, we're welcoming Emily Allison, a Queens University Senior.

We can't wait to have Emily here on site with us!

Welcome to the team, Emily! 🎉

Meet Piper, an Asheville native and Junior at Western! Read on, and be sure to welcome Piper to our PAGE community!
05/27/2026

Meet Piper, an Asheville native and Junior at Western!

Read on, and be sure to welcome Piper to our PAGE community!

Kicking off our intern spotlights, meet App State Senior Linsie Smith! Sound off in the comments to offer Linsie a heart...
05/27/2026

Kicking off our intern spotlights, meet App State Senior Linsie Smith!

Sound off in the comments to offer Linsie a hearty PAGE Hello ♡

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