Story Bank
A Story Card is not an essay. It is the shape of a story you could tell out loud in ninety seconds.
Story Signal scan
Six signals tell you whether an experience is ready to become a story. Answer Present, Not Yet or Not Sure on each card.
- There is a specific moment I can picture
- I made a choice someone could disagree with
- I can name what I actually did, step by step
- Something changed because of me
- I learned something I still use
- I can explain why it mattered to me
The two-dollar notebook
Shared with ProducerThe Saturday my mother handed me the phone in the car and said, you talk to her.
6 of 6 signals present2 linked experiencesFAFSA night in Spanish
PrivateA parent asked me what a tax transcript was and I did not know the word in Spanish.
5 of 6 signals present1 linked experiences