A Twice Told Tale Part 3

 In my previous two posts, I told the story of Hunter, a 4th grader from two perspectives. I learned of his story from my colleague, Allison Nieboer, his previous teacher, who much like me, experiences empathy the most when conversing with her students. When I heard this story, it truly warmed my heart to hear such an innocent, child-like perception of an event that we often take for granted. Reframing this story, however, took a bit of work. It has been a while since I have been in the shoes of a fourth grader, and I have never met the child, so I had to do a bit of creative interpretation. It took a lot of empathy to put myself into this child's shoes to tell the story from his perspective. Writing about the experience from multiple perspectives was eye-opening and even simple interactions can have large impacts on people we don't even think about. It made me think about empathy differently because there are always two sides to every story, even if we don't think about the second side as an event is occurring. 

A Twice Told Tale Part 1

A Twice Told Tale Part 2