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.
Social Impact Storytelling
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
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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. Learn more at passthemicyouth.com.