“Literacy for Incarcerated Teen’s Virtual Book Club is a transformative program that proves real change is possible. The power of knowing your voice and story matter is incalcuable to these girls, who are eager to make the world anew. This program does the hard, granular work of building a better future.”

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Please join us for special virtual benefit table reading Directed by Robert Galinsky, Written by David Lewison and starring: Maryann Plunkett, Chad Morgan, Stephen McKinley Henderson, Ajay Naidu, and Roger Guenveur Smith. It’s live on Zoom this Thursday evening and we celebrate: Literacy for Incarcerated Teens! More info and register here […]

We kicked off AAPI Heritage Month 2021 with a schema activity around the geography of Asia using Geo Kids’ Asia puzzle.   Many thanks to Literacy for Incarcerated Teens for providing these approachable puzzles that invite students to use their hands assembling the Asian continent from Iran to […]

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We’ve been celebrating all month long, first with Gwendolyn Brooks’ “We Real Cool” and Zetta Elliot’s “We Can’t Breathe” and “We Are Wise” from Say Her Name .  Then, thanks to generous funding from our partners at LIT, we gifted every […]

Life Goes On OIAA Anniversary
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The heartiest of congratulations to our students, mostly former, whose publication, Everything I Been Through, has been selected as one of the top ten titles for the 2021 In the Margins booklist!  We are so proud of you: Ezequiel, Jonathan, Logan, Kymani, Efaree, […]

The Passages’ BIG Read kicks off January 14th! The book? Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and You by Jason Reynolds and Ibram X. Kendi. Students will have the opportunity to read together with one another, and all who choose to participate. They will receive fresh assignments in their digital library classrooms each […]

Another round of applause for Literacy for Incarcerated Teens for supporting Galinsky Coaching’s work with incarcerated teens in Long Island.

The newest book “Punching the Air” by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Abdus Salaam of the #Exonerated5 just arrived! Thanks to the publisher, Balzer + Bray an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers, […]

Big thanks to Literacy for Incarcerated Teens for supporting Galinsky Coaching’s newest course: “ZOOM Literacy” – with the latest from the author Sarah Deming’s “Gravity”, published by Make Me a World! We are serving young ladies in prison in a facility in Long Island New York. Also big ups to Book […]

Squeezing the best out of 2020 to the end! Big thank you to author Mahogany L. Browne, Phoebe Yeh, Crown Books New York, Cheryl Willis Hudson, and Literacy for Incarcerated Teens for donating 25 copies of Mahogany’s upcoming book “Chlorine Sky”. The Galinsky Coaching “ZOOM Literacy” program begins 2nd week of […]