Self Direction:

In the beginning of the year I struggled to come up with questions to create the foundation of our project. Throughout the year as our story developed it became clear to me that these […]

What’s the Story somehow seems hard to explain. It’s a course unlike any other. It’s not really an English course or a story making class, it’s a lot of things. Most course you sit in a room and listen to someone […]

Dear teachers,

What’s the story is both an English class, a group of youth-led social action teams, and a filmmaking class. It combines communication skills, learning to adapt to different situations, producing […]

This past week has been quite busy for me, it has been hard to work on What’s the Story when I’ve got so much going on. I made the goal this past week that I would work on the storyline or research storylines, and […]

These past two weeks working with the group has been going well. Like any group, we’ve had our ups and downs, trying to figure out how we all fit into this group and what our individual roles are. But so far, I t […]

After this weekend, I definitely am more inspired to pursue the story that my team and I created. I am ready to dive into research, finding the right people to support our story, and working alongside my team. My […]

I had trouble finding each category or group, at first I was unsure of how to find out everybody’s main interest. But then I started combing through a lot of the mind maps, writing down the ideas in a list […]

In this blog post, I wanted to dive into the importance of my idea and action I can take in my community, as well as around Vermont. In my mind map, I put under importance “Students have the right to have the […]

When I started What’s The story this year, I started with a passion that I felt I would make my project and I still believe that. Because all though racism is so prominent in our society, I know that deep in my […]

This week I wanted to challenge myself to look at a topic that I don’t often think about…racism. As a white person, I have what one may call an “advantage” or privilege in life due to the color of my skin. My […]