Before piloting this program, she said, she’d never seen ‘students so readily come out of their shells’ and ‘develop a comfort level with one another.’… ‘I think that this is what schools should have been doing for a very long time,’ she said. ‘But it was just not a priority.’
Bronx-based educator Liz Haela spoke with Chalkbeat about how she’s using Narrative 4’s story exchange to help her students reacclimate to in-class learning, promote active listening, and spark curiosity.