As part of our Family Creative Learning Facilitator Guide, ScratchJr edition, we included a set of visual facilitator stories that we call “Facilitating Facilitators” to showcase the practices, reflections, and growth of facilitators. We hope these stories can highlight the essential role played by facilitators in supporting equitable and creative learning experiences for youth and families, especially from groups who have been marginalized from opportunities. In addition, we hope these stories can be a tool for other facilitators and facilitation teams to reflect on their own experiences and practices. Check them out on the FCL website!
The stories are based on real-life experiences of facilitators documented in our team’s research. Each story focuses on a particular facilitator and a key experience they identified as important to their personal and professional development. Across the stories there are questions we pose that can be reflective prompts about facilitation.
These facilitator stories were in part made possible by support from IMLS (lg-96-17-0176-17), the CU Boulder Office of Outreach and Engagement, and NSF (#1908351). Illustrations were designed by Fiona Herse Woo. Research behind these stories were conducted by members of the Family Creative Learning project team and more information can be found in our research page.