Attention
A vivid story invites students to listen from the inside, not simply comply from the outside.
Teacher as Artist
Bring storytelling back
to the heart of education.
Invite Timothy Frantzich to equip your teachers, captivate your students, and show your school what becomes possible when a story is told well.
Nearly 30 years in classrooms
Grades 1–8 taught
Thousands of stories shared
The opportunity
A lesson can be delivered.
A child must be reached.
Storytelling helps educators cross the distance between presenting information and awakening genuine attention.
“Before you can teach the lesson, you have to reach the child.”
Connection
A teacher who tells well becomes more present, memorable, and emotionally available to the room.
Meaning
Story gives facts, values, and ideas a human shape that students can picture and carry with them.
Culture
Shared stories can create common language, calmer transitions, stronger trust, and belonging.
Meet Timothy
A teacher who has lived this craft in real classrooms.
Timothy brings the credibility of long practice, not a theory assembled from the outside.
1997–2026Waldorf grades teacher
Every gradeFirst through eighth, some multiple times
Traditional talesThousands shared with children and adults
Raised on stories told by his own father, Timothy became a storyteller himself. He learned firsthand that a well-told story can change the atmosphere of a classroom: children lean in, imagination awakens, and the relationship between teacher and students deepens.
Ways to bring Timothy in
Choose the experience your community needs.
Every visit is shaped around the age of the students, the experience of the faculty, and the goals of the school.
01
Professional development
The Teacher Storytelling Workshop
A practical experience that helps educators become more confident, vivid, and connected storytellers.
- Hold a room without relying on volume
- Shape image, rhythm, pacing, voice, and silence
- Tell from memory with confidence
- Connect story to lessons, transitions, and culture
02
Student experience
The Live Storytelling Assembly
No screen. No special effects. Just a storyteller, a room full of children, and the ancient human experience of listening together.
- Grade-level or whole-school gatherings
- Age-appropriate traditional stories
- Family storytelling nights
- Optional student Q&A or faculty debrief
03
Maximum impact
The Storytelling Day
Teachers learn the craft. Students experience its power. The whole school shares it.
- Student assembly
- Faculty workshop
- Shared language across the school
- One inspiring, connected day
Inside the workshop
Teachers experience the craft before they are asked to practice it.
A workshop can be adapted into a keynote, half-day, full-day intensive, or multi-session series.
- 1
Experience a story
Participants first feel sustained attention and living imagery from the learner’s side.
- 2
Make the invisible visible
The group examines pacing, image, repetition, silence, gesture, voice, and structure.
- 3
Learn the architecture
Timothy offers a usable framework for choosing, preparing, remembering, and shaping a story.
- 4
Practice in a safe room
Teachers try short sections and receive supportive, specific feedback.
- 5
Connect story to school life
Participants identify real lessons, transitions, conflicts, and moments where story can help.
- 6
Leave with a next step
Each educator creates a realistic plan to use the craft soon after the workshop.
Yearlong partnership
Storytelling is a craft.
Crafts grow through practice.
For schools that want storytelling to become a living faculty practice, Timothy can return once a month throughout the school year.
The monthly model
Monthly visits. Lasting growth.
Each visit builds on the last as teachers practice, Timothy checks in, and new tools are added over time.
8–9one-day visits
Monthlyfaculty workshop
Ongoingprogress checks
Sharedfaculty language
- Demonstration, instruction, practice, and application
- Story selection guidance for age, season, curriculum, and classroom needs
- Follow-up on what teachers tried, what worked, and where they feel stuck
- A year of steady growth woven into school culture
Yearlong package$6,000for the school year, plus travel and lodging
Ask about the yearlong partnership
Beyond the classroom
The person behind the practice.
Schools are not only inviting a skilled educator. They are inviting a thoughtful, humorous, deeply human presence.
Timothy’s work is shaped by attentiveness, warmth, playfulness, music, nature, and a life that keeps imagination alive.
Why Timothy
Schools do not need another speaker who only talks about teaching.
They need someone who can demonstrate a rare craft, explain it clearly, and help educators begin using it.
Lived classroom authority
He understands the attention, energy, developmental needs, and reality of an actual classroom.
Mastery through repetition
Thousands of stories have taught him how to read a room, shape a moment, recover when attention shifts, and trust the story.
Artistry with practical use
The craft serves teaching, classroom culture, human connection, literacy, and the inner life of the child.
A renewing experience for teachers
Educators are reminded why teaching matters and invited to recover imagination, presence, and joy in their work.
Invite Timothy Frantzich
Give your teachers a tool they can use tomorrow.
Give your students a story they may carry for years.
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