Resources for the classroom and beyond!
Best Practices
Pairing Read Aloud with the Story Exchange
How can we use mentor texts to connect students to the story exchange and story exchange prompts?
Best Practices
How to Dig Deeper Into Students Strengths
What questions can we present to students to have a better overall understanding of who they are and how they experience the world?
Best Practices
Artifact of the Week
How can students explore real world experiences and stories?
Skill Building
Building Trust & Community at the Tattoo Parlor
How can art support us in building a space that honors curiosity, creativity, and understanding? During this lesson, participants will…
Story Exchange
Utilizing the Story Exchange throughout the K12 Classroom
How can we thoughtfully implement Story Exchanges (and activities that use the Story Exchange structure) while working with typical classroom…
Skill Building
Uncommon Commonalities
How can similarities we share with others bring us closer together as a community?
Story Exchange
Object Exchange Lesson Plan
How can the story exchange deepen our connection to others in our community?
Skill Building
Creating Community Agreements
How do shared community norms or agreements change how we care for each other in our communities?
Skill Building
Deep Listening Reflection
What can we learn about ourselves through investigating how we listen to others?
Skill Building
Grab, Click, Pass
How can our social awareness allow us to work together?
Arts Integration
Your Place: Insider/Outside
How does our relationship with our community change our perspective?
Story Exchange
Modified Story Exchange
How can stories bring us closer to people in our communities?