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I Write The Future
In 2010, the California Writing Project (CWP) launched the I Write the Future campaign. With the help of an amazing group of teacher leaders, who are all a part of the Improving Students’ Analytical Writing (ISAW) program, and the input of a remarkable team of students, we set out a lofty goal of supporting high school students to use writing to address intolerances—discrimination, racism, homophobia, bullying, cyberbullying—propose solutions, and advocate for changes that will write a very different future than our present.
Thousands of students have submitted their writing for publication and consideration for scholarships. We invite you to explore the student writing selected for publication in the I Write the Future anthologies and the award-winning digital essays that can also be found on the Love, Light, Good Enough Facebook page. Then help CWP shine a bright spotlight on the promise and potential of our ISAW students.
Thousands of students have submitted their writing for publication and consideration for scholarships. We invite you to explore the student writing selected for publication in the I Write the Future anthologies and the award-winning digital essays that can also be found on the Love, Light, Good Enough Facebook page. Then help CWP shine a bright spotlight on the promise and potential of our ISAW students.
2014 Award Winners
For I Write the Future Year 4, we invited the students of teachers participating in ISAW programs, to write and go public about the issues of intolerance they were concerned about, that call them to action, that call them to problem-solving. Students could write their own stories and their own experiences, they could write observed experiences, or they could write from research. All could be used to describe the future they wanted to see. They could write editorials, commentaries, “My Turn” essays, argumentative essays, problem solution essays, poetry, spoken word, or reflective essays. But for this year they were invited to transform their written ideas into multimodal, multimedia submissions that addressed an issue and message of their choosing. What follows is a playlist of 25 of the award-winning submissions for 2014. Download the complete list of awardees here.
Note: Due to online distribution limitations, four of our 22 winners are not included in the above video playlist.
These videos can be found on the LoveLightGoodEnough Facebook Page
These videos can be found on the LoveLightGoodEnough Facebook Page