Eileen DeLorenzo is an elementary educator, classroom storyteller/teaching artist and certified Thinking Maps™ trainer.

Eileen’s stories entertain while connecting listeners in shared experiences. A teller of world folktales, Michigan tall tales and original stories of struggles and victories, foils and follies come to life in vivid imagery.

Interactive storytelling programs and workshops for students, educators, and librarians are rich with wisdom, humor and song. Programs support teachers in meeting National Common Core Standards from Early Literacy Development to English Language Arts.

Visualizing, Thinking Maps™ and Writing

• Engage students in the creation of images through vivid storytelling
• Integrate Storytelling and Thinking Maps™ practicing good story mapping and story writing
• Created and completed maps prime, launch and sustain students confidently in the writing process.