Words Unlocked 2018
Multiformity
Words Unlocked Update: June 1, 2018
words unlocked resist
shouting above silent whirlds
multiformity
ALERT: Words Unlocked 2018 Chapbook Inclusions!
Words Unlocked Update #9: May 25, 2018
The Top 10!
Congratulations teachers and poets! We'll be back in touch next week with an update on the winning poems.
Poem: Agony
Poet: Tyrique
School: Naselle Youth Camp School
Facility: Naselle Youth Camp
State: Washington
Teacher: Ditas Baker
Poem: I am, I may, and I will
Poet: Caleb
School: Juniper Hills High School
Facility: Juvenile Corrections Center - St. Anthony
State: Idaho
Teacher: Amanda Gallegos
Poem: Jumbled
Poet: Olivia
School: Juniper Hills High School
Facility: Juvenile Corrections Center - Nampa
State: Idaho
Teacher: Alice Marlow
Poem: Untitled
Poet: Abbigail
School: Lincoln Hills & Copper Lake Schools
Facility: Lincoln Hills Juvenile Correctional Facility
State: Wisconsin
Teacher: Amy Heimerl
Poem: The Destroying Angel
Poet: Angelo
School: Polk Academic School
Facility: Polk Correctional Institution
State: North Carolina
Teacher: Pauletta Williams
Poem: Facet
Poet: William
Facility: Pinellas Country Juvenile Detention Center
State: Florida
Teacher: Derek Sanders
Poem: LABELS
Poet: Darlene
School: Three Lakes High School
Facility: Oak Creek Youth Correctional Facility
State: Oregon
Teacher: Levi Moody
Poem: Why
Poet: Alek
School: New Bridge High School
Facility: Rogue Valley Youth Correctional Facility
State: Oregon
Teacher: Tracy Linstad
Poem: Show Yourself
Poet: Christopher
School: Juniper Hills High School
Facility: Juvenile Correctional Center - St. Anthony
State: Idaho
Teacher: Darby Merrill
Poem: who am I
Poet: Memory
School: Mat-Su Secondary School
Facility: Mat-Su Youth Facility
State: Alaska
Teacher: Tom Pine
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ALERT: Words Unlocked 2018 Contest Round 3 is underway!
Thanks in advance, y'all!
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Words Unlocked Update #8: May 11, 2018
WU18 Poetry Contest: Review Round 1
All poems are currently in the hands of our Round 1 Volunteer Reviewers. We'll be back next Friday with another update on the review process. By then, we will have moved on to round two.
Praise Your Poets!
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Words Unlocked Update #7: April 29, 2018
WU 18 Submissions!
The submissions continue to pour into our WU18 Submission Portal! Wow! Getting an error message? Well, sometimes the portal gets overwhelmed with multiple folks submitting at the same time. No worries.
Take a break, then try again.
Still having trouble? Send us a quick email at WordsUnlocked@ceeas.org and we'll figure something out.
Poetry Break
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Words Unlocked Update #6: April 20, 2018
WU18 Submission Portal is Open!
If you have any trouble downloading the WU18 Submission Template or uploading to the WU18 Submission Portal, please email us at WordsUnlocked@ceeas.org and we'll get on it.
Free Flocabulary Teacher Subscriptions!
Check out the Flocabulary video and resources on hyperbole below. Looks childish? Nope! Watch and you'll be exaggerating for effect - certainly.
Lyric Lab
Handouts
Quiz
Poetry Break with Kosal
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Words Unlocked Update #5: April 13, 2018
Free Flocabulary Access!
Flocabulary is a learning program that uses hip-hop to teach standards-based content across all subject areas and grades. With student engagement at its core, Flocabulary supports teachers in their daily instruction and helps students learn academic content, build vocabulary knowledge and creatively develop essential literacy skills across the curriculum. Your free, limited subscription through CEEAS provides teachers of students in confinement with full-access accounts to Flocabulary. Explore content, like What is Poetry?, Rhyme and Rhythm, Types of Poetry and much, much more!
WU18 Submission Template
Please download the WU18 Poetry Submission Template. This is a Word document and we ask that all submissions be uploaded as Word documents, using this template. PDFs will not be accepted.
Why? If one of your poets is featured on our CEEAS website or the WU18 anthology, it makes life easier when working with a Word document.
Thanks in advance! : )
WU18 Submission Portal is open!
Teacher Spotlight!
"Students needed and liked having the blended options and materials to participate poetically. Students jumped in where they saw fit. The freedom of it encouraged participation and creative commitment. Our ELL students felt included too!"
Hat's off to Robin for reaching all learners and igniting creative commitment!
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Words Unlocked Update #4: April 6, 2018
Come and Get 'em
Tell it!
Messages From Kosal
*Teachers, as with all videos, please view prior to sharing and be prepared to support students through emotions that may come forward.
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Words Unlocked Update #3: March 29th, 2018
Are you ready!
WU18 Website
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Words Unlocked Update #2: March 23rd, 2018
WU18 Focus Poet: Kosal Khiev
Past Words Unlocked Day 1 Lesson Materials
WU18 Contest Poster!
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Words Unlocked Update #1: March 19th, 2018
Words Unlocked 2018 Contest Guidelines
Oops!
Again this year we have brought back the Oops! page. See a typo? Can't access media? We are human and here to help. Use the Oops! form to let us know.
WU18 Contest
Still wondering if the young people you work with are eligible to submit? Just ask! Email us at WordsUnlocked@ceeas.org
WU18 Calendar
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Words Unlocked is BACK for 2018!
"You've got to keep asserting the complexity and the originality of life, and the multiplicity of it, and the facets of it. This is about being a complex human being in the world, not about finding a villain. This is no time for anything else than the best that you've got.”
~Toni Morrison
In the spirit of National Poetry Month and in a continuing effort to encourage literary exploration by young people held in locked facilities, we are proud to announce that we will again be running our month-long poetry writing initiative and competition, Words Unlocked!
This year's theme is Multiformity! Multiformity is the quality of existing in many different forms and speaks to the complexity of human being. We exist through the eyes of ourselves and others - as sons, daughters, inmates, scholars, friends, artists, detainees, fathers, mothers, and much more. Through Words Unlocked we hope to encourage young people held in locked facilities to voice their truths about being shaped along the way and seeking harmony in multiformity.
All materials for the initiative are available at our Words Unlocked website, which will house a robust set of tools available for public use: daily lesson plans and teacher-ready classroom materials. Check back often, as we will continue adding material! Please share the website with anyone who might help get these materials to teachers working with incarcerated youth. We hope to have thousands of students kicking off Words Unlocked 2018 on Monday, April 3rd.
Far too many young people are locked up around the country. Through this initiative, we continue to ensure that their words are not.
The Words Unlocked 2017 theme was authenticity. Check out the links below and take some time to read and listen to what young people held in locked facilities had to say through their poetry and podcasting about being connected to themselves, to others, to the world.
words unlocked share selves
reflecting found intention
authenticity
Words Unlocked 2018 Updates!
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WordsUnlocked Anthologies
The Podcast Project
The Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings
We help alternative schools inside locked facilities implement transformational, student-focused practices, designed to significantly improve the life chances of the students they serve.
Email: WordsUnlocked@ceeas.org
Website: www.ceeas.org
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