May 6, 2019 2 min Mutual Vulnerability and the Rewards of Being Known I hadn’t expected my voice to shake. Putting down my emotions to complete a task is a skill I’ve come to manage so well that I’m pretty l...
May 6, 2019 2 min "The resiliency, self-awareness, and talent I witnessed was remarkable..." At first, my decision to enroll in the Writing in Schools course was a purely logistical one. It fulfilled both my Indianapolis Community...
Apr 24, 2019 1 min Butler Writers program preps tenth edition of IPS student work A new print edition of Reverberations, a literary journal for the poets and storytellers of Shortridge High School, will be released this...
Apr 10, 2019 2 min "Few spaces inside a school have felt safer than Butler Writers..." Even when I consider my own high school experience, few spaces inside a school have felt safer than Butler Writers at Shortridge. It has ...
Apr 10, 2019 2 min "I think we will be able to take on anything..." One of the best parts of the experience at Shortridge was the community we built. No matter how many or little students showed up to the ...
Mar 10, 2019 2 min "My opinion changed vastly, and my mind was opened..." In the weeks leading up to Shortridge, we were told often how great the students were not only in general but also in their writing abili...
Dec 10, 2018 2 min "I see so many students from both schools benefitting from the future of the program..." After a semester of Butler Writers, here is what I know now: do not underestimate the high schooler. They are intelligent young people wh...
Dec 5, 2018 2 min "Pushing myself to be more outgoing had a positive impact on someone else..." At the beginning of the semester, the primary expectation I had for myself was to try as hard as possible to step outside of my comfort z...
Dec 5, 2018 2 min "I will look fondly on my experiences forever..." I am incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to be a mentor for the semester at Shortridge. As I had stated at the beginning of ...
Nov 10, 2018 2 min "Seeing people write a lot and really love it was a little earth-shattering..." Our after-school space being more freely-structured allows the students to be more open and about themselves and about their writing. Som...
