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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Christiana Castillo
Christiana Castillo Writer-in-Residence The poets I work with weekly have been writing poems about community care, self-care, self-love, joy, resilience, and refuge. During the Citywide Poets session, I believe we are using poems to heal and process our current world. Citywide Poets, InsideOut’s award-winning after […]
Jassmine Parks
BookUp is not simply a reading group. BookUp is the emotional process of bridging students to books, to each other, to the world around them and to themselves. Writer-in-Residence Jassmine Parks led middle school students through many stories this year. A graphic memoir about being […]