St. Louis area schools involved in Laws of Life
These St. Louis area schools have involved their students in this writing process in recent years. They are the "founding members" of Laws of Life on STLtoday.com. When you register as a Laws of Life instructional sponsor, your individual students, classes or entire school will be eligible to join them. Please contact Diane Stirling, CHARACTERplus at 314.692.9722 or charplus@csd.org to learn how to register and post essays.
Clayton High School
Emily Grady, English Department Chair.
Belleville West High School
John Lodle, English Teacher, incorporates the writing assignment in four senior English classes.
Gateway High School
Rich Rosenow, Social Science and Ethics Teacher, uses the Laws of Life essay as a required writing assignment in the Personal Ethics unit the Ethics in Science and Technology course.
Hazelwood School District
JoAnne Dumont, Communication Arts Coordinator.
The essay process continues at all Hazelwood Middle and High schools, in 7th and 10th grade Language Arts classes.
Kirkwood School District
Maria Stobbe, Service-Learning Office.
The essay guidelines are used as a reflection piece for students involved in service learning.
Logos High School
Kathleen Meyers, English Teacher.
Oakville High School
Mitch Eden, Journalism Instructor.
All Journalism classes participate.
North Technical High School
Karen Fernandez-Salvador, Teacher.
Students participate on a voluntary basis.
Our special thanks to
Mitch Eden and his Journalism students from Oakville High School, Mehlville School District, for their suggestions in selecting the name and searchable fields for Laws of Life on STLtoday.com.
JoAnne Dumont for sharing her district-wide experience with Laws of Life essays.