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LTP teacher training sessions for the 2008-2009 school year have begun. If you are interested in scheduling a training session please contact Marianne Stavenhagen for details.
Four Professional Development Workshops have been scheduled for the coming months. For more information on the workshops, please visit the Teacher Resource Page
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The Literacy Through Photography program has been
used in Houston Independent School District for
15 years and has been utilized by more than 20,000
Houston-area students and teachers. Since that time,
LTP has grown into three full curricula, LTP Basic,
using traditional film-based photography, LTP Digital,
incorporating the advantages of digital photography
and image making processes, and LTP for English
as a Second Language (ESL) classrooms.
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Literacy Through
Photography (LTP) is the classroom-based educational component of FotoFest International.
LTP is a writing program designed to help classroom students achieve
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Teachers are provided with carefully designed
lesson plans that offer new writing techniques, basic photography
skills, and effective teaching strategies that transform the
classroom into a stimulating environment to give students
the confidence to express themselves through writing, and
believe what they write.
All LTP lessons are aligned with Texas-state
mandated curriculum requirements for students in third to
12th grades. Students increase visual and verbal literacy
while building cognitive thinking skills, self-esteem, and
awareness of each other. The LTP curriculum provides students
with meaningful subject matter to help them write about their
own photographs, their own lives, with confidence.
LTP NEWSLETTER
A Huge Turnout for FotoFence 2008
More than 300 students, teachers, parents and school officials celebrated Mother’s Day and Literacy Through Photography (LTP) at FotoFest on Sunday, May 11, 2008.
Four hundred LTP student photo and writing posters, three dimensional works and videos lined the gallery walls. Sixteen schools participated in FotoFence 2008 along with the
Transition Medicine Program from Baylor College of Medicine and participants in the annual Houston Press High School Photography contest. Much applause greeted the readings
by five students from LTP classrooms and an account of living with chronic illness by a participant in the Baylor program.
Houston Press officials presented a $1000 scholarship to the overall winner of the newspaper’s High School Photo Contest. Among the photographers at FotoFence 2008 was Louis Rodriquez from Furr High School.
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