Which Program is Right for You?
Badgerdog's education programs teach students the language skills necessary to create literary art from their joy and their jeopardy.
- Youth Voices in Ink: serves students in grades 6-12
- Badgerpups: serves students in grades 3-5
- Summer Creative Writing Camp: serves students in grades 3-12
- Youth Voices Embossed: serves blind and visually impaired students in grades 6-12
| Youth Voices in Ink (YVI) | Badgerpups | Youth Voices Embossed | Summer Creative Writing Camp | |
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| Program duration | 10 weeks | 8 weeks | 10 weeks | 3 weeks1 |
| Intensive, standards-aligned writing workshops | 30 hours | 16 hours | 30 hours | 45 hours |
| Instructors who are Master of Fine Art candidates or graduates who have been selected for their talent and ability to implement age-appropriate pedagogical strategies |  |
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| A best-in-class curriculum and robust pedagogical training for all instructors, including in-service and benchmark meetings | |
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| A full-time Program Manager who serves as an additional point of contact between Badgerdog and school-site teams and manages day-to-day instructional quality of the workshops | |
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| Publication of student work in one, inclusive, library-quality anthology | |
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| Donation of anthology to school library | |
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| One anthology for each student who publishes | |
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| An on-campus reading | |
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| A community-wide reading conducted at a public venue, coordinated with other local Badgerdog workshops2 | |
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| Opportunity for Language Arts faculty from participating campuses to join our annual in-services with a Master Teacher of Creative Writing3 | |
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| Stipend for one teacher on campus to sit in on the workshops as observer/participant with no instructional responsibility | |
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| Badgerdog T-shirt and Certificate of Completion for each student who publishes | |
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- Two three week sessions offered each summer
- Recent venues have included the Capitol Building (Texas Book Festival), University of Texas at Austin, the Off-Center Theatre and Performance Space
- Recent Master Teachers have included David Rice and Naomi Shihab Nye
