Your Story Matters at Mason City Schools

Your Story Matters at Mason City Schools

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Your Story Matters brings Mason’s rich culture to life through story. You’ll hear stories from staff, students, and community members designed to celebrate diversity, passion, and purpose. Our stories weave our commUNITY together – let’s listen and connect!

Recent Episodes

  • Curt Bly - "There are things that happen in our life that are true perspective-creating events."

    5 years ago
  • Lunar Moms - Fatma Elmaery, Shaimaa Garaween & Brandi Holmes

    5 years ago
  • Jeff Schlaeger - "Everyone is grieving something."

    5 years ago
  • Kevin Peyton - "The prepositions we avoid are 'to', and, 'for', and 'at' -- the preposition is always with -- how do we stay in relationship and work alongside folks."

    5 years ago
  • Amy Boynton - "I was in Kohls, and a stranger came up to tell me that her daughter is battling cancer. I got in my car and I’m just crying. A month and a half later, Ella was diagnosed.”

    5 years ago
  • Lenka Crawshaw - "It's paying it forward. I was an ESL student as an adult. I understand what the families go through."

    5 years ago
  • BJ Smallwood - "There was never, ever a time I thought I'd be a teacher."

    5 years ago
  • Quinn Robinson - "We talk a lot about not being afraid to straight up ask people 'Are you thinking about suicide?'"

    5 years ago
  • Sarah Burkhart - “Being a biracial person in Cincinnati, and having my foot in both worlds, was a difficult straddle.”

    5 years ago
  • Dr. Littisha Bates - "Not everyone is on board with mitigating bias and changing the narrative, but our kids our powerful."

    5 years ago