Then look at the OurStoryBridge Stories page at https://www.ourstorybridge.org/ourstorybridge-stories to find Partner Projects in New York and across the country to visualize what you can do in your community for the 250th.

The free tools and resources are in the Tool Kit found at https://www.ourstorybridge.org/tool-kit.The User Guide walks you through every step from planning, to preparation, then implementation, even suggesting low/no cost marketing ideas to bring viewers to your website to listen to stories and recruit your Storytellers. Short videos are linked to the downloadable User Guide, helping you every step of the way and Sample Documents are also posted. There are several ways to use the services of OurStoryBridge: through contracts with you, donations, or even free services if you choose.

And to understand how to make your OurStoryBridge Partner Project an educational resource, check out the Teacher’s Guide at https://www.ourstorybridge.org/tool-kit#4. Updated several times a year, it currently catalogues over 1,400 stories from across the country for teachers to use. Your stories will be added too! And there’s even guidance on starting school story projects, a sample school assignment, a poster describing how to use the stories in educational settings, and other resources.

Also, as an example of how to use these stories in your classrooms, we mapped OurStoryBridge stories from the Partner Project, Adirondack Community: Capturing, Retaining and Communicating the Stories of Who We Are to the New York State Social Studies 9-12 curriculum at https://www.ourstorybridge.org/tool-kit#4 to reflect upon how to use the stories in the classroom.