Links
A primary goal of The Lab is to cultivate innovative ways of engaging urban youth. As a part of this, we encourage educators to continue to envision new ways of supporting their students in order to offer them exciting and culturally relevant modes of learning. We encourage youth to find more opportunities to explore their art forms.
Here are a variety of resources that detail how other educational programs have tackled this task.
Local Organizations
- Free Arts Minnesota
www.freeartsminnesota.org - Intermedia Arts
www.intermediaarts.org - The Loft
www.loft.org - Saint Paul Public Library
www.stpaul.lib.mn.us/locations/rondo.html - Minnesota Literacy Council
www.theMLC.org - Minnesota Writing Project
mwp.cla.umn.edu
Creative Youth-Based Programs
- Words Out Loud – for youth writers/spoken word poets
Saturdays 1-3pm @ Rondo Library in St. Paul
www.myspace.com/wordsoutloud - Art From Ashes
www.artfromashes.org - Creative Arts Therapies
www.creativeartstherapies.org - Pongo Publishing
www.pongopublishing.org - San Francisco Writers Corps
www.sfartscommission.org/WC - YouthSpeaks
www.youthspeaks.org - FreedomWriters
www.freedomwritersfoundation.org - Young Chicago Authors
www.youngchicagoauthors.org - Center for Journal Therapy
www.journaltherapy.com - Louder Than a Bomb – audio clips of teen slam poetry
www.chicagopublicradio.org/Program_LB.aspx - Independent Lens – documentary film and history of hip hop
www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/about_hiphop.htm
Youth Writing & Spoken Word Poetry
- Words Out Loud, Saturdays 1-3pm at Rondo Library in St. Paul
www.myspace.com/wordsoutloud - Youth Speaks
www.youthspeaks.org - Independent Lens
www.pbs.org/independentlens/hiphop/about_hiphop.htm - Poetic License
www.itvs.org/poeticlicense/youth.html - DC Writers’ Corps
www.dcwriterscorps.org - Pongo Publishing
www.pongopublishing.org - San Francisco Writers’ Corps
www.sfartscommission.org/WC - Intermedia Arts
www.intermediaarts.org - Art from Ashes
www.artfromashes.org - Girlspeak
www.youngchicagoauthors.org/girlspeak/index2.htm - Louder than a Bomb
www.chicagopublicradio.org/Program_LB.asp - Freedom Writers
www.freedomwritersfoundation.org
Technology & Youth
- www.tcymn.org
- www.spnn.org/departments/youtheducation/youth.htm
- www.intermediaarts.org/pages/programs/programs.htm
- teens.walkerart.org/index.wac
- www.ifpmsp.org/youth.html
St. Paul Public Schools & Special Education
- Saint Paul Public Schools
www.spps.org - SPPS Special Education
www.specialed.spps.org - MN Administrative Rules for EBD
www.revisor.mn.gov/rules/?id=3525.1329
