In this crossover episode, Natalie joins fellow podcast host and co-author, Tom Schimmer, to discuss how story is critical to rehumanize assessment, embrace the messiness of change, and to cultivate the mindset necessary for inner peace. 💬 Continue the conversation with Natalie on Twitter or Instagram    💬 Continue the conversation with Tom on Twitter or Instagram    ✊ Join our Facebook group for community, connection and allies.   ✨ Check out the website for the Empowerment Ecosystem Summit for the schedule, locations, and details on how to register!   Show Notes:

• Rehumanizing assessment through story allows us to tap into deeper learning, build empathy, and demonstrate cultural expansiveness while gathering evidence of the critical competencies.
• When students are the storytellers, they develop agency.
• Storytelling in the classroom can range from micro moments to macro projects, and capture evidence of the standards as well as metacognition and reflection.
• Change requires leaders to become storytellers to model the vulnerability of making mistakes and trying something new.
• The stories we tell ourselves determine our mindset.
• If you live to please others you'll lie to yourself, but when you tell yourself the truth, you'll find your inner peace, even if that doesn't make everyone happy.