Classroom Environment: Heard This Unique Story on Learning?

We like to network with school teachers. They often have great stories to tell about incidents in the classroom and classroom learning. It is all about short stories and their use in a classroom environment.

Check out our thoughts on team leverage. A great story to tell: A Story About Living as Told by a Six-Year-Old Boy

Famously, Dr. Seuss wrote Green Eggs & Ham after betting that he couldn’t produce a story using less than 50 words. The research shows Seuss was on to something.

Most people naturally take the path of “least resistance” and build off of older or existing concepts when brainstorming, which can lead to less creative ideas. Have you ever wondered why movie stories like Toy Story are so compelling and fruitful? The best writers in the world speak to universal human themes — the things that drive every one of us no matter what our worldview is.

Compelling storylines work because we see ourselves reflected in the characters. Their story is our story. A great script looks us right in the eye and says, “I see you.”

Contrast that feeling with the one you get when you’re speaking to someone at a party, who is looking over his shoulder for the next most interesting person to enter the room. That’s exactly how you don’t want your…