In collaboration with the SFUSD ethnic studies program, Youth Speaks has partnered with high schools and middle schools across SFUSD for our In-School Residency program.
The In-School Residency is a 15-week-long program in which a Youth Speaks Teaching Artist is paired with a partner Teacher at a school site to facilitate high-level creative writing and performance poetry workshops in the classroom on a weekly basis.
Young people will dream, vision, and imagine new worlds through 20+ years of Youth Speaks curricula and pedagogy.
Schools We Serve
SFUSD High Schools
- Phillip & Sala Burton High School
- Galileo Academy of Science & Technology
SFUSD Middle Schools
- Visitacion Valley Middle School
- SF Community
- Aptos Middle School
OUSD Middle Schools
- United for Success Academy
Why It Matters
Our In-School Residency program aims to provide meaningful poetry and performance workshops that are centered around the SFUSD ethnic studies curriculum with the hopes of not only educating students about historic and systemic injustices but also sharpening their voices to speak out against these injustices.
In a time where books that encourage readers to think critically about the world around them are being banned, and marginalized communities are continuously under systemic and administrative attack, it is imperative to create spaces for young people to talk about the things that feel urgent to them.
Young people must have spaces where they can ideate around the changes they hope to see in the world. Poetry and performance can be a useful tool in not only beginning to imagine the futures young people want to create and sustain, but they can also be tools in diffusing information and ideas. The Arts in Education residency program is unique in the fact that our teaching artists travel to schools throughout the Bay Area to offer meaningful, high-level writing and performance workshops.
Book A Residency
Contact Arts in Education Manager Vania Gutierrez
