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May Retreat – Jumping and Falling are Sometimes Synonymous

This is not educational learning. Not in a traditional sense. This is not about learning facts or concepts. This is...

March Retreat- A Whole New Perspective, or, A Changed Life

In my life, the life of Theo Wells-Spackman, a 9th grader from Middlebury, there have been numerous educational experiences. Most...

March Retreat: Opportunities provided by What’s the Story?

What’s the Story? is an amazing course in which students dig in to a topic of interest and become well...

March Retreat; What This Process Has Given Me

I first learned about What’s the Story through several friends that had been participating in the program last year. At...

March Retreat: “I have never had an experience like this before”

What’s the story is a learning experience like no other, and is a great opportunity for teenagers to get involved...

March Retreat: My Brain is a Delicate Ecosystem That’s on Fire.

What’s the Story isn’t just another thing you join and then forget about, skipping meetings and not doing the work....

March Retreat: You Decide the Change You Want to Make

Most people, until age 18, just go through the regular education system. They study, take tests, and forget what they’ve...

March Retreat: Why What’s the Story?

What’s the Story is a course I’m taking that allows me to create a documentary about a local issue that...

The Plan

On saturday, the WtS team got together to review film and think about starting to edit their documentaries. It was...

A Self-fulfilling Prophecy, Otherwise Entitled the Sue Minter Chapter.

So, here we are. The end of filming. The beginning of the next stage of change. We are so grateful...

How to Create Change

I would like to start out by saying that this blog post is mostly for me. I’ve had a lot...

Day At Dealer

Yesterday, I spent most of my day with my mom at Dealer.Com. While I was there, I interviewed 7 different...

Update; Tying Together Different Perspectives

Leaving our day at Winooski and Burlington we had redefined the story we were looking to uncover. We turned our...

A Busy Week Ahead

Hi all! This week, being the last week of filming, is a busy one. My plan is to post short-ish...

Checking In

On Thursday, January 26, Casey, Bryce and I conducted interviews at Lake Champlain Maritime Museum. We interviewed them about pollution...

ALL ARE WELCOME

On the 23rd of January our team pulled off a day of immense productivity that took weeks of coordinating...

Big Picture

Hi all! This Monday, I shadowed at the Big Picture school in South Burlington. While I was there, I interviewed...

Interview Reflection

Our first interview, one that we did at CVU, went well. We were interviewing Andrew Silverman, a student at CVU...

Productive week

My group met at CVU last week, where Grace and I planned to film the first video of the web-series....

First Priority

Happy New Year everyone! Well that’s the expectation at least, but in reality I haven’t had the happiest first couple...

What I’ve been doing.

(This image is me with my legal name change documents, my small step towards making change for myself). For...

Say of The Students / Progress Report

This and last week have been very productive. This week, I am working on getting all of my student interviews...

Quick update

These past two weeks I’ve been focused on getting our website back up and running. The goal is for it...

Gears Are Grinding

Last week, I met with Emily and we devised a schedule from now until winter break, which begins on the...

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