Nicole Burns

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.