The Youth Voices Inquiry Project provides a community and online platform for students and teachers to engage in writing. It is run through the New York City Writing Project at Lehman College. The project holds 3-week summer programs where students and teachers from different schools learn together. In 2013 there were 13 students from 5 schools. In 2014 there were 17 students from 6 schools. The project also hosts Saturday workshops in the fall for students and teachers to further writing inquiry. The goal is for the Youth Voices online platform to be a space for students to engage in memoir, poetry, and personal inquiry through their writing.

1. Youth Voices Inquiry Project:
A community and a platform
New York City Writing Project
Institute for Literacy Studies
Lehman College, CUNY

2. New York City Writing Project
Jane Higgins, Director
Paul Allison, Tech Liaison @paulallison
alliosnpr@gmail.com 917-613-3006
Teacher-Consultants currently in 15 NYC schools
Local site of the National Writing Project

3. 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…”

4. Youth Voices 3-Week Summer Programs
2013 - 13 students, 5 teachers, 11 schools
http://youthvoices.net/2013
Open, available, agendas and curriculum
Open, available, agendas and curriculum
http://youthvoices.net/summer2014
2014 - 17 students, 6 teachers, 12 schools
Co-learning = teachers and students
working together as peers

5. 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.

6. Three Saturday Workshops - Fall 2014
Saturday, 11.1.14
Introducing Ourselves
and Youth Voices
Saturday, 11.14.14
Youth Voices as a
platform for memoir
and poetry
Saturday, 12.6.14
Youth Voices as a
platform for inquiry
14 students, 6 teachers, 12 schools
http://youthvoices.net/fall2014
Open, available, agendas and curriculum

7. Youth Voices: Composing at the point of utterance

8. Youth Voices: Creating and Coding a Profile

9. Youth Voices: Our stories and poems

10. Youth Voices: Personal, passionate inquiry