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- hknapp - Nov 19 2006 | seattle, community, volunteering, writing
bumping this up.
(originally dotted from chris.)
Quoted: 826 Seattle is Seattle's first dedicated center to helping young people improve their written communication skills through free tutoring, mentoring, and writing workshops.
- eric - Oct 24 2006 | seattle, volunteer, 826 Seattle
I'm going in for volunteer orientation at 826 Seattle tonight. We were discussing this organization at lunch. I am Dotting it so that chriswei can check it out as well.
Quoted: 826 Seattle is Seattle's first dedicated center to helping young people improve their written communication skills through free tutoring, mentoring, and writing workshops.
- chrisg - Jul 21 2006
Facilitating future Heartbreaking Works of Staggering Genius
Quoted: 826 Seattle is Seattle's first dedicated center to helping young people improve their written communication skills through free tutoring, mentoring, and writing workshops.
- hereusethis - Jul 12 2006 | local, examples, non-profit, sites, imported::UrbanG
seattle slant on David Eggers 826 Valencia
Eric, this is the Eggers group I mentioned to you that would also be a fantastic partner.
Quoted: 826 Seattle is Seattle's first dedicated center to helping young people improve their written communication skills through free tutoring, mentoring, and writing workshops.
- deborealis - Dec 10 2005 | 826, Dave Eggers, writing, mentoring, young people
I guess this is open for business now. I've been meaning to check it out.
Quoted: 826 Seattle is Seattle's first dedicated center to helping young people improve their written communication skills through free tutoring, mentoring, and writing workshops.
- rico_cai - Nov 19 2006 | seattle, community, volunteering, writing
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Neat! I'd never heard of them before, but 826 looks like a really great organization to volunteer with. Good luck!
Well the orientation was really great (and 25 or 30 new volunteers showed up)! They're becoming quite popular.
I hope to get a position helping out with the field trips or tutoring so that I can work directly with the kids. The field trips sound amazing! Classes of young kids come in, they learn about stories, and the they collaboratively write the beginning of a story before breaking off to finish individually. Each kid leaves with their own bound book, their own faces on the back as the author), professionally illustrated by a cartoonist who works there, etc. It sounds really fun and makes the kids feel like published authors.
There is a field trip for older kids that they do on screenwriting as well. Similar, but more complex in that you have to teach kids to express story through dialog, setting, etc.