Youth Voices Inquiry Project:A community and a platform

New York City Writing ProjectInstitute for Literacy Studies

Lehman College, CUNY

New York City Writing ProjectJane Higgins, DirectorPaul Allison, Tech Liaison @paulallisonalliosnpr@gmail.com 917-613-3006

Teacher-Consultants currently in 15 NYC schools

Local site of the National Writing Project

Writing Projects as Third Spaces

Elyse Eidman-Aadahl: “...not the university space of research and scholarship, nor the job space of teaching and schools, but a third space…”

Youth Voices 3-Week Summer Programs

2013 - 13 students, 5 teachers, 11 schoolshttp://youthvoices.net/2013 Open, available, agendas and curriculum

Open, available, agendas and curriculumhttp://youthvoices.net/summer20142014 - 17 students, 6 teachers, 12 schools

Co-learning = teachers and students working together as peers

What’s might the ratios be in 2015? Six teachers from two schools.

18 students from the teachers’ schools and four more. Average of three students from each school.

Six schools with two getting a teacher-consultant in the academic year.

All of this x2 when we add a second group this summer.

Three Saturday Workshops - Fall 2014Saturday, 11.1.14 Introducing Ourselves and Youth Voices

Saturday, 11.14.14 Youth Voices as a platform for memoir and poetry

Saturday, 12.6.14Youth Voices as a platform for inquiry

14 students, 6 teachers, 12 schoolshttp://youthvoices.net/fall2014 Open, available, agendas and curriculum

Youth Voices: Composing at the point of utterance

Youth Voices: Creating and Coding a Profile

Youth Voices: Our stories and poems

Youth Voices: Personal, passionate inquiry