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Great Student Stories: Part 2

In my last blog, I described the power of stories to help organizations and programs measure outcomes.  To assist the AmeriCorps Student Assistance Program in the Forest Grove school district round out their evaluation plan, I developed a story methodology to capture a missing voice in the program’s evaluation process: the students they serve. In that post, I promised to …

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Schoolboy

Great Student Stories: Part 1

Stories open up our world—they make us laugh, they make us cry, and sometimes they even give us new insights about others and ourselves. Stories are part of every culture and help us make sense of the world. As I wrote in a previous post, stories can also help programs and organizations make sense of their worlds. When collected with …

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