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March Retreat: What’s the Story Through the Eyes of a Participant

As the March Retreat comes to a close, I think back to what we’ve done over the past 6 months...

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: 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: 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...

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...

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...

Post Winooski/Burlington Day

Wow! That day went by very quickly,and my team and I learned so much about interviewing and Winooski’s ELL program...

Today is the Big Day- Winooski/Burlington Interviews

Today my group and I are going to Winooski and Burlington schools, to have a full day of interviewing! Our group...

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...

One Interview Down: Stories Have a Way of Unfolding

Man, does it feel good that I finished an interview yesterday—and that I finished it smoothly, quickly, and well. That I...

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...

December Retreat: Excited for the Future

I didn’t accomplish everything I would have liked to over the past four weeks, however I worked with Eva to...

December Retreat- Why You Should, Why You Could

I came into this retreat excited because I had finally figured out that instead of targeting 4 or 5 groups...

You Do Have A Choice

In the last couple of days, I have come to the decision that I will be primarily focusing on trying...

Reaching out to Possible Interviewees

This week my team and I were reaching out to 2-3 people that we were interested in hearing their information...

Week 3 – What questions do I have?

Questions I have about the issue of migrant workers on dairy farms in Vermont: How strongly do farmers who...

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