WordPowered - formerly WriteBoston

We are grateful for the long-time support of the TJX Foundation, which has awarded a $7,500 grant to support our Teens in Print program!

The TJX Foundation is committed to helping vulnerable families and children access the resources and opportunities they need to build a better future. Through Teens in Print, young people strengthen their writing, critical thinking, and communication skills while discovering the power of their own voice.

Thank you to the TJX Foundation for investing in the next generation of storytellers, leaders, and changemakers.

The teachers at WordPowered’s Teacher Institute come from different schools. Laura Vultaggio spent ten years teaching in Boston before moving to Belmont, and yet what strikes her is how much they share in common. “We’re teaching the same exact texts. We’re teaching the same skills, the same strategies,” she observes. Suburban versus urban, different student populations, different structures, and still: the work is fundamentally the same. “I think people often, you know, like to talk about the differences across the board,” she says, “and I think it’s helpful to be reminded that things are actually more similar than they are different.”

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And we have 3 spots left in our Teacher Institute happening this summer! Learn more and register here: https://bit.ly/3Otwntd

Memory. Responsibility.

Our Teens In Print (TiP) reporters are digging into real history as they prepare to interview Dr. Jarvis R. Givens, author of I'll Make Me a World: The 100-Year Journey of Black History Month.

We've been sitting with the story of Crispus Attucks, a man of Black and Native heritage who was the first to fall in the Boston Massacre of 1770. By 1783, March 5th, once commemorated as a day of resistance, was replaced by July 4th as Independence Day. Memory, it turns out, has always been contested ground.

That's exactly why the work of WordPowered matters right now. Will you join us on May 7th to learn more? Get your tickets here: https://givebutter.com/c/pc26

Any project advancing the humanity of others, their singular and representative lives, must take lessons from the freedom narratives and the many, many people who worked to document, teach, and preserve them despite state violence.

When TiPster Vivi says, "I am thinking about history and my role as a journalist to write down my thoughts and what I see in the world today and how that becomes part of the historical archives," she grasps something essential about her inheritance and how to forge ahead.

WordPowered's partnership with educators and youth is part of a larger project: not only amplifying voices, but building the archives that may one day serve those who seek to understand the work of literacy in the years leading up to and beyond the dawn of AI.

On May 7th, WordPowered will announce two landmark partnerships with the Sarah-Ann Shaw family and the Forry Family Foundation, establishing scholarships in community journalism that will open real doors for our young reporters for years to come.

This is what it looks like to invest in the next generation of truth-tellers. We hope you'll join us. Get your tickets today! https://givebutter.com/c/pc26