Hi all! My name is Eva and I will be working with you all remotely from Hampshire College this academic year. I will be reading your blogs this year, posting content myself, and joining you at your retreats when I […]

I had the pleasure and opportunity to work with three other teachers who all shared the keynote at today’s Dynamic Landscapes conference in Burlington, Vermont, a conference about the intersections of authentic […]

The What’s the Story? cohort met this past weekend for our second overnight retreat; here’s our agenda. When we met in November, learners pitched ideas for social action and formed collaborative teams. Here are […]

Over the next week, please complete the following two tasks, which will prepare us to dig into each other’s ideas for positive social action on November 10th and use consensus seeking to create social action t […]

This week, we are taking a pause for the cause.

We’ve been writing and evolving our topics over the last five weeks. This week, I want you to PAUSE  and take stock of all the comments and feedback that have c […]

WTS Learners, Parents, and Mentors,

Thanks so much of being part of launching WTS 4.0, our fourth year of What’s the Story? The Vermont Young People Social Action Team, a program of the Middlebury Bread Loaf […]

On a Wednesday night in early May, we adult leaders and community guests sat back and listened intently as the WtSL students from duPont Manual and Fern Creek high schools presented their projects relating to […]

Please complete two parts of this final blog post: expected and unexpected learning.

Part 1: Expected Learning

Locate and update your mid-year self-assessment, the single-page self-scoring google doc […]

Recent Saturday Work Session:

All WtS teams met on February 11th at Champlain Valley Union HS as we work together to pivot from researching and filming on topics of social concern and turn towards […]

What’s the Story? Louisville Youth Community Wellness Advocates (WtSL) participants continued their program’s pilot year at Valaterra, a retreat center roughly 30 minutes from downtown Louisville in nearby Old […]

There are 29 days left of filming.
Then, we will pivot to construct documentaries and other multimodal narratives.
First, I wanted to share this WTS logo that Kati Tolgyesi created. It’s a wonderful […]

I’m writing to share exciting news from the last month, an update on our December retreat, and forecast where we are headed.

Vermont Creative Learning Forum: Woodstock, VT (November 15th-16th)

A team of […]