In this post, I interview educator Michael Hernandez about his digital storytelling experiences with students over many years, and about his advice for teachers about how to use digital storytelling to redesign everyday teaching and learning, and assessment, to deepen student engagement and learning.

A multi-year coaching partnership with the Missions team at Orange Lutheran High School in California has led to the creation of program goals, standards & benchmarks, and articulated curriculum rooted in service learning and community engagement.

A one-week visit to Schutz American School in Alexandria brought the impact of service learning and storytelling to the fore of strategic planning.

LeeAnne’s partnership with the American Community School of Abu Dhabi includes on-site and virtual components of coaching, facilitation, and strategic planning.

Grade 9 students at the International School of Addis Ababa just experienced an English unit centred around story circles and story exchanges. The result of this deep listening is a transformed sense of self and others.

A grade 9 student at the International School of Kigali in Rwanda has created a new framework for service learning and community engagement called the “4 Pillars of Mindful Service”. Check out this inspiring story!

Elementary teachers and students at the American International School of Lagos in Nigeria used poems for Earth Day to deepen a budding community partnership with a local school.

A grade 7 interdisciplinary learning experience at the American Community School of Abu Dhabi provides an excellent model of how to support students in an experiential deep dive into sustainability, community engagement and action.

Before you get too close to the end of the semester and school year, think about how you can celebrate the successes of your service learning and global citizenship programs. Hosting a community-wide celebration can raise the profile of what you’re doing and create a lot of momentum for meaningful action.

Check out one school’s multi-layered co-curricular approach to teaching students about sustainable food, from gardening and composting to cooking and social entrepreneurship.

The International School of Kenya is building a curricular PreK-12 service learning program and modelling what it’s like to create a strategy that is tailored to its context and rich history of service.

Are you curious about how to use generative AI tools for digital storytelling with your students? In this post I share my recent journey using DALL-E to create visual images, and how to craft prompts that generate specific images with students.

Khartoum American School has been displaced since April of 2023 because of war in Sudan, and I had the opportunity to work with students and staff in November to use storytelling as a means of reflecting, healing and sharing messages of hope and resilience.

How Antwerp International School replaced all marketing strategies with storytelling for authentic engagement with prospective families.

How to coach and support your student leaders to grow their skills and ensure they’re thinking about leading with sustainability and inclusion in mind.

Do you need inspiration for ways to use digital storytelling in the first few weeks of the new school year? Look no further! Here are 5 ideas for elementary teachers and 5 for middle/high school teachers. Let’s tell some digital stories!

Join the conversation I recently had with podcasting expert Tricia Friedman for inspiration about how to engage your students with podcasting this year!

Picture 24 17-year-old high schoolers living completely different lives and with very different socio-economic backgrounds collaborating on a project 13 time zones apart. Today, such learning is made possible with technology and new pedagogies such as digital storytelling, and this is the story of one such collaboration.

When Dulwich College Suzhou (DCSZ) nursery teacher Ben Widdowson learned about a fun digital storytelling tool called Chatterpix, he knew it was something he wanted to use with his young learners.

When Dagne Furth, an experienced English literature and global citizenship educator, helped her students publish a book called Dear Tariq this past year, she knew she wanted to make the project available to teachers around the world.