The practice of learning someone else’s story well enough to retell it as your own builds an intimacy between the participants, and might spark a desire to do something more within the community.

Humans love a narrative: the progression of events from start to finish. Once you realize how prevalent storytelling is in how we connect with information, it becomes impossible to ignore its impact.

As Harter and Buchner (2009) put it, “through narrative activity, we structure perceptions of events, identify protagonists and victims, accentuate details, redress dilemmas, and legitimate and ...

Reshare and Repurpose: A great story can and should serve multiple purposes. Case in point: the charter school in DC that contracted with a local filmmaker to produce a 20-minute video about their ...

Using story cubes is a great way for Lila to use her imagination and creativity. And practice storytelling skills. It's a literacy game that's fun because each player becomes a narrator.

Mara McAndrews, one of the student leaders of Narrative 4 at Marquette, seconded that emotion. One of McAndrews' biggest takeaways from story exchanges is "how much empathy you have for yourself ...

Narrative medicine programs teach doctors and other caregivers “sensitive interviewing skills” and the art of “radical listening” to improve patient care. Waclawa “Joanne” Zak, who now ...

The story of online learning so far has too often been disruption, suspicion and distance (both literal and metaphorical). But the reality of online teaching is -- and must continue to be -- passion, ...

The most-read story, “Cupid’s Match” by Lauren Palphreyman, has more than 46 million reads on Wattpad, and all the other titles have more than 400 thousand reads each.