About us
This is a youth-powered social network and multimedia publishing platform that was started in 2003 by a group of teachers from local sites of the National Writing Project.
We merged several earlier blogging projects. We have found that there are many advantages to bringing students together in one site that lives beyond any particular class. It’s easier for individual students to read and write about their own passions, to connect with other students, comment on each other’s work, and create multimedia posts for each other. Further, it’s been exciting for us to pool our knowledge about curriculum, connected learning, and digital literacies.
There are over 10,000 posts and over 17,000 comments by young people on the site on topics as diverse as the American Dream, Shakespeare, and sports as well as original poems and stories.
Youth Voices is a platform for youth to write about their interests, both in school and outside of school: what they are reading, what their hobbies or future careers might be, what they enjoy in their spare time. Like all of us, students follow our national leadership and form opinions. They are also welcome to write about those topics as well.
Youth Voices is fully non-partisan and welcomes youth of all types, from all regions, and with all viewpoints. Educators support youth in writing and thoughtfully responding to each other through the use of commenting guides, using tags to show common interests, playlists to support self-guided inquiry; opinions expressed by writers are their own.
If being part of such a community makes sense to you, we invite you to join us. We welcome all youth and any teacher interested in having students publish online and participate in the give and take of a social network like Youth Voices.
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Recent Comments
- Agustín Molina Ureña on America Means Injustice
- Matthew on Those Winter Sundays By Robert Hayden, Read By Drew H.
- Matthew on Those Winter Sundays By Robert Hayden, Read By Drew H.
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- Ashley on Are teen students responsible for the education of low-educated parents?
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- Monserrat on Do fast-food ads make you hungry?
- Yadira on Our bodies are not a political discussion
- Dulce on Finders Keepers
- Zhelanea on Life
- Ashley on Pandemic
- Ashley on Public Lands In Native Hands
- Sofia Meza-Lua on The Benefits of Strict Gun Laws
- Marlen on Body positivity
- Ashley on Latina Influence and Leadership
- Gerardo Reyna-Gomez on I Remember…
- Mayra on Are Warning Labels on Unhealthy Foods a Good Idea?
- Ashley on Stop Hate-Crimes
- Diana on Finders Keepers
- Heidi on I Remember…
- Cynthia on Life
- Marlen on Restraining Orders
- Agustín Molina Ureña on Journalist Bio
- Litzy on What is Climate change causing?
- Tadeo on Future Meat
Youth Voices is an open publishing platform for youth. The site is organized by teachers with support from the National Writing Project. Opinions expressed by writers are their own.
All work on Youth Voices is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License