The storytelling toolkit below offers a curated collection of resources designed to help you learn, practice, and teach storytelling. It supports everything from helping students share their personal experiences to building skills for collaboration and community engagement. You’ll also find tools to experiment with diverse formats—spoken word, podcasts, digital media, and more—that energize how stories are told. With prompts, frameworks, and activities, this curated list supports storytellers of all kinds. It’s all about bringing stories to life in ways that connect, move, and inspire meaningful change.
Personal Narrative Resources
- StoryCorps, educator resources
- Humans of New York
- Mini-narratives and corresponding lessons to learn about identity, bias, and stereotypes
- Storytelling Warm-Ups
- Spoken Word, educator resources
- I Am From poem template
- Developing your Story of Self
Story Building
- Lesson: Every Kid Has a Story to Tell
- Lesson: Stereotypes and Single Stories
- Podcasting as storytelling
- Digital Storytelling Guide
- Ethos, Pathos, & Logos
- Storytelling and Social Change
- Blackout poetry
- The Sciku Project
- Story Collider
- Over 1,000 Writing Prompts for Students
- The Message Box
- Guiding Questions for Effective & Ethical Storytelling
#Passthemicyouth
PassTheMicYouth is a multimedia Extension program that amplifies the voices and experiences of young people, shines a spotlight on youth-led civic and community engagement, and provides practitioners with resources for teaching social impact storytelling.
- About the Book
- Available June 6
- #PassTheMicYouth Podcast and Blog
- About #PassTheMicYouth
- Empowering Voices: Local Youth Leading Change at TEDxYouth@ChavisWay
- TEDxYouth@ChavisWay: “From Here to Everywhere”
- Raleigh Youth Inspire Change at TEDxYouth@ChavisWay Event
- Where I’M From
- Youth Reporting Institute
- Podcasting from A to Z with the Youth Reporting Institute
- 5 Tips for Blog Post Writing
- Youth Podcast Starter Kit Giveaway
- How Authentic Living Changed My Life
- The Power of Hope: #PassTheMicYouth Art Showcase
- A Culture of Conversation
- Leadership – The Act of Leading Others (And Yourself)
- 5 Youth Change-makers Who Left Their Mark on History
- why do all my favorite things break? Youth Poetry Spotlight
- Podcasting for Peace: Fight or Flight?
- The Power of Youth & Adult Partnerships