“When teachers use the N4 Story Exchange as a pedagogical approach, students know that they and their experiences are valuable to the classroom community. This can help carry the questions and understandings from students’ lives into your reading of whole-class texts and then beyond into students’ communities. We want students to see how storytelling can help us embrace our whole selves—to relive the joy, understand the disengagement, pursue our curiosity, and mourn our pain—and help us see a doorway into engagement with the world.” Felice Belle and Lee Keylock