What Makes a Wow Story

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What Makes a Wow Story

  • October 16, 2019
  • Posted by: Caitlin McCallum
  • Category: Wow Story
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LSEM has begun our Wow story feature again and we thought we’d share this one first. Our teacher Arlene Lapsansky was pondering about what makes for a good Wow story. Here are her thoughts:

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I was thinking, what makes a student get on the Wow story list? It usually is someone who has made great strides academically despite his or her learning differences. Yes, it is based on the data and the graphs that teachers can generate, but what about the “other” students who still struggle. One student come to my mind.

He was a junior high student who came to Trinity as a seventh grader. This student struggles with organization, completing homework, reading comprehension, written language, and mathematics. He continues to have these struggles. But he should be a Wow story because he is kind, caring, compassionate, and respectful. He also loves God by attending and participating in activities at his church.

His talent is singing. One evening he shared his beautiful God’given talent by singing the song “Alleluia” to a gym filled with students and parents at Trinity’s talent show. It was certainly a “Wow” moment and there wasn’t a dry eye in the audience. This was a big moment for this student and hopefully it will give him a feeling of success to carry him throughout the school year.

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LSEM Wow stories come in all kinds of different shapes. Yes, sometimes it’s a Wow moment about how a child has found success through their learning needs. But it is also about these Wow moments where we can appreciate that a learning need does not limit or define a child. They are so much more. God has made them more. Let’s be sure to appreciate each of our students as a whole. We each have our strengths and weaknesses and these are what make us interesting and unique children of God.