InsideOut Receives [Transformational Gift](https://insideoutdetroit.org/2024/03/19/insideout-receives-2-million-donation-from-mackenzie-scott/) from MacKenzie Scott!
InsideOut Receives [Transformational Gift](https://insideoutdetroit.org/2024/03/19/insideout-receives-2-million-donation-from-mackenzie-scott/) from MacKenzie Scott!
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5 Stories. 25 Years.

This year marks the first step of InsideOut’s next 25-year journey. We’ve celebrated this occasion by lifting up five stories from five different eras of our history, from our inaugural class in the mid-90s to our most recent graduates. The stories (which you can explore…
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Thriving Together: InsideOut and the Detroit Zoo

Thriving Together is a three-year-long environmental justice and creative writing program led by the Detroit Zoological Society and InsideOut Literary Arts. In the summer of 2020, we quickly transitioned the program online after stay-at-home orders were enacted. “While students would normally be wearing waders in the Detroit River and…
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Trauma Informed Zoom

Trauma-Informed Perspectives: How We’re Enhancing our Organization and Programs

In 2019, the Detroit Free Press found that “ninety percent of teachers and principals across the Detroit Public Schools Community District reported that more than half their students have been impacted by trauma that impedes their learning.” Addressing trauma and the social-emotional needs of our students has always…
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Opportunity, Safe Spaces & Dynamism: InsideOut Enters the Online Classroom

This year, InsideOut is focused on supporting our students and embracing opportunities that lie in the unexpected. We understand that students have experienced a great deal of change and uncertainty over the past 6 months, and we want to be as sensitive and responsive as…
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Why I’ll Join the Write-A-Thon

I was happily surprised when Suma and her team chose “Share the Light” as the theme for InsideOut’s annual fundraising gala. They had selected the phrase from my introductory essay in To Light a Fire, an anthology of essays by our teaching poets. I was…
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Girl Writing

InsideOut At Home

InsideOut At Home is our way of ensuring youth, families and educators have access to quality content to continue to engage, inspire and frame this changing world. These creative writing lessons provide ways for participants to grow as writers and as people–addressing their social and…
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Poetry for the People

In January 2020, InsideOut Literary Arts entered its 25th year of service to our community. Since 1995 over 60,000 youth, in and out of school, have benefitted from our programs, and we’ve seen both the impact and the need, grow. To celebrate this milestone year,…
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A Storm in the Classroom

How to create just the right wind conditions for a porch-watching-worthy storm of youth voice. InsideOut is up and running in 25 schools in Detroit and the surrounding area! All this magic was kicked off at orientation in October where 19 Writers-in-Residence gathered for a…
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Literary Arts Program

Go Inside a Stone

I am standing in front of the blackboard, my arms sticking out in front of me, my hands balled up into fists. “I am holding,” I say, “in just one of my hands,” I add, and pause, I sigh, all for dramatic effect, “something very…
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