The 2016 Utah Youth In Care Poetry Anthology

The spring of 2016 was the fourth year that students in Utah’s detention centers, secure facilities and treatment programs submitted poems to the Center for Educational Excellence in Alternative Settings’ national poetry writing initiative and contest, Words Unlocked. Each year that Utah students have participated in Words Unlocked, poems by Utah students have been selected…

Super Sweet Podcast!

Spy Hop has started a new year working with Salt lake County’s Boys & Girls Group Home. This year they are expanding the programming to include some new innovative ideas. Spy Hop mentor Jeremy Chatelain explains: “This year in our Super Sweet Friday Morning Program we’re diversifying our projects in an attempt to keep kids…

“What’s Your Fandom?” TEDx Talk

  Carrie Rogers-Whitehead, an instructor, writer and self-proclaimed “geek” explores the ways characters, stories and fandoms increase student engagement and encourages us to find what we identify with. Graphic novels and the fantasy and superhero fandoms they bring to life, aren’t just entertainment, they are tools for learning. “What is your fandom?” Carrie Rogers-Whitehead, who…