San Francisco Summer Learning Network: Work with teens? Youth Speaks for YOUR STUDENTS in July -- plan to be there

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Work with teens? Youth Speaks for YOUR STUDENTS in July -- plan to be there

We're still pinning down details, but Youth Speaks offers some fantastic no-fee spoken word activities for high schoolers and some for middle schoolers in July -- both workshops and spectator opportunities. Get ready to save some dates!

This year, the Brave New Voices International Youth Poetry Slam Festival is set for San Francisco the evening of Saturday, July 23, at the Opera House. Brave New Voices represents youth from all across the United States and Europe, making it the largest ongoing spoken word event in the world.

Events in connection with Brave New Voices offer enrichment and educational activities that stimulate the creativity and nurture the soul -- mostly free -- during the week of July 18-23.

The week of July 18 on a day to be announced, Youth Speaks will engage 500 high-school-age teens in free writing workshops at 10 branch libraries around San Francisco.

On Thursday, July 21, young people are invited to a day of writing in San Francisco with Youth Speaks leaders from around the country.

Free spectator opportunities leading up to the Brave New Voices final event:

Quarter finals all day on Friday, July 22, at various locations in the Mission District.
Semifinals all day Saturday, July 23, at four locations.
Admission is free to spectators at the above events.

Tickets are $6 to the final event at the Opera House on Saturday, July 23.

Details to come! To be alerted to details as soon as they're announced, contact James Kass at Youth Speaks,
jkass@youthspeaks.org

In another Youth Speaks event, a daytime poetry slam is set for Friday, June 17, focusing on gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer youth, at the San Francisco Lesbian Gay Transgender Bisexual Community Center, 1800 Market Street. Details to come.

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A summer without enrichment is a summer with learning loss

“Deprived of healthy stimulation, millions of low-income kids lose a significant amount of what they learn during the school year. Call it 'summer learning loss,' as the academics do, or 'the summer slide,' but by any name summer is among the most pernicious — if least acknowledged — causes of achievement gaps in America's schools. Children with access to high-quality experiences can exercise their minds and bodies at sleep-away camp, on family vacations, in museums and libraries and enrichment classes. Meanwhile, children without resources languish on street corners or in front of glowing screens. By the time the bell rings on a new school year, the poorer kids have fallen weeks, if not months, behind. …

"And what starts as a hiccup in a 6-year-old's education can be a crisis by the time that child reaches high school. A major study by researchers at Johns Hopkins University concluded that while students made similar progress during the school year, regardless of economic status, the better-off kids held steady or continued to advance during the summer — while disadvantaged students fell back. By the end of grammar school, low-income students had fallen nearly three grade levels behind. By ninth grade, roughly two-thirds of the learning gap separating income groups could be blamed on summer learning loss.”

-- Time Magazine, "The Case Against Summer Vacation," Aug. 2, 2010

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