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Ep. 2 - Why and how you can help students tell their stories with Dr. Rebecca Wiltberger Wiggins
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Storytelling for students, especially first-generation students can be empowering and enlightening, Learn how to help students tell authentic, meaningful stories, for admissions, scholarships, interviews, and even dates!
Dr. Rebecca Wiltberger Wiggins joins me to talk about storytelling (and tells a few stories about her family and her experiences teaching). She shares some wonderful tips about making space for students to reflect and write, how to come beside them to help them craft their story, and several ways to think about the stories being told about our students and what we and they can do about that.
Dr. Rebecca Wiltberger Wiggins received her BA in English from Berea, her MA in English Literature from Northeastern Illinois, and her PhD in American Literature from the University of Kentucky. She's been an instructor teaching writing and storytelling at UK.
You can find her on LinkedIn and at TeaandStrategy.com.
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