Love the idea of building stories with the purpose of getting students to ask "why?" Student questions are so key to figuring out what their thought processes are, and whether they're able to understand and apply the information received.

I love the phrase, "Stories are vessels of culture." Using stories to share cultures, to expand awareness of and knowledge about them, is to open our eyes to aspects of our school community that often go unseen.

I love storytelling, and it's a must for my CTE course (Yearbook). Here, I appreciate the clear connection between humor and laughter, dopamine, and long-term memory and goal-setting motivation. I also appreciate what every yearbook teacher should know: stories are a way to help students feel seen, valued, and respected. Telling those stories, and telling them well, is an important function of our class. Our students need to see stories like this to *produce* them.

I learned about how it is important to have partnerships and advisory councils. I do wonder how feasible this could be in my small school and community. 

I learned about the different skills that students can and need to learn, as well as how to fail and that it is okay to fail

I really enjoyed this module and learning how school based businesses should be run. Especially with the high expectations and also the skills that they should be learning. 

I learned alot about SBE and how they are supposed to run. I also learned how important it is to make sure you have student buy in as well as making sure it is viable and feasible. 

I learned about the ABCD Acronym.

I am inspired to create a more efficient and organized binder for my lesson plans!

I really like the idea to implement ice breakers on the first day to get to know the students in class. Moving forward, I will implement ice breaker and pretest strategies shared in this course.