Education
Teaching the Value of Listening
Educators have used StoryCorps stories and interview methods in their classrooms since we started in 2003. StoryCorps is powerful for schools—our stories teach history, and our interviewing methods teach the value of listening.
StoryCorpsU
StoryCorpsU has developed a dynamic College Readiness Curriculum as well as resources to help educators use StoryCorps content and interviewing techniques in their classrooms. Read more.
National Teachers Initiative
StoryCorps’ National Teachers Initiative will collect, preserve, and share stories that celebrate the profound impact of great educators on all of our lives. Read more.
Introduction to StoryCorps: A Lesson Plan
The “Introduction to StoryCorps Lesson Plan” is a simple classroom exercise designed to teach students basic interviewing and storytelling skills. In this exercise, students are asked to participate effectively in a variety of interactions (one-on-one and in groups), exchanging information to advance a discussion and to build on the input of others. The “Introduction to StoryCorps: A Lesson Plan” is free for anyone to use.
Download the lesson plan here.
Unheard Voices: Curriculum Created in Partnership with ADL and GLSEN
The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Network (GLSEN), and StoryCorps have collaborated to create Unheard Voices, an oral history and curriculum project that will help educators integrate lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history and issues into their instructional programs.
