Educator-musician leads songwriting workshop at Paxton Keeley Elementary

Thursday, September 11, 2008 | 8:58 p.m. CDT

COLUMBIA — The assembly hall at Paxton Keeley Elementary School was dead quiet on Thursday. About 120 third-graders sat on the floor, heads bent over clipboards and Eagle pencils working intently. They were not taking a test, doing homework or being punished; they were brainstorming ideas for a song about French toast.

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