School Residency

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Our core program places professional writers in schools to conduct creative writing workshops that engage students’ imaginations and introduce them to the pleasure and power of writing.

The residencies consist of 25 weekly sessions, allowing writers to become an integral part of students’ experiences. These year-long in-school residencies bring students together with practicing writers who serve as models of the creative life and help students to take themselves seriously as writers.

Publications celebrate and display students’ work in eye-catching, attractive magazines. They bring students’ work to the community at large, creating a sense of pride and interest in written expression of the highest quality. Graphic artists, designers, and other professionals have provided their professional services for the past several years at minimal or no cost.

InsideOut students have won writing awards in most major high school literary competitions including Michigan Youth Arts Festival; National Council of Teachers of English; Broadside Press; Albion College Poetry Contest; Lawrence Tech Writing Contest; NAACP Essay Contest; Detroit Auto Dealers Short Story Contest; Writers Voice, and more. In April 2001, members of Citywide Poets, InsideOut’s after-school poetry performance workshop, placed fourth out of 25 cities in the National Youth Poetry Slam.

InsideOut has residencies in the following schools for the 2010/2011 school year:

DETROIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS

  • Bagley Elementary School
  • Bennett Elementary School
  • Blackwell Institute
  • Bunche Elementary
  • Clippert Academy
  • Cody – Academy of Critical Thinkers at Cody
  • Cody – Detroit Institute of Technology at Cody
  • Cody – Academy of Public Leadership
  • Communication & Media Arts HS
  • Cooke Elementary School
  • Crockett High School
  • Detroit City High School
  • Detroit International Academy for Young Women
  • Detroit School of Arts
  • Douglass Academy for Young Men
  • Gardner Elementary School
  • Garvey Academy K-8
  • Golightly Education Center
  • Kettering High School
  • King High School
  • Mann Elementary School
  • Mark Twain Elementary School
  • Marquette Elementary School
  • Mumford High School
  • Murphy Elementary-Middle School
  • Osborn Evergreen Academy of Design and Alternative Energy
  • Osborn Academy of Mathematics
  • Parker Elementary School
  • Pasteur Elementary School
  • Pulaski Elementary Middle School
  • Southeastern High School
  • Western International High School

OUT OF DISTRICT

  • Henry Ford Academy (Highland Park)
  • University Prep Science & Math
  • South Lake High School