826CHI is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write.
Our services are structured around our belief that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.
With this in mind, we provide drop-in tutoring, after-school workshops, in-schools tutoring, help for English language learners, and assistance with student publications.
All of our programs are challenging and enjoyable, and ultimately strengthen each student's power to express ideas effectively, creatively, confidently, and in his or her individual voice.
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Archive for February, 2006
Tuesday, February 21st, 2006
Dan Kelly is a Chicago writer who’s had a few scribbled doodads published here and there. He hopes the kids learn from his example that if they stay in school, eat their vegetables, and write every chance they get, one day they might receive 7 or even 7.5 cents a word. His web site is […]
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Saturday, February 18th, 2006
Brian O’Grady is from Chicago. His master’s thesis, a collection of creative essays, should have been completed last year.
Since I started coming to 826 as a drop-in tutor last fall I’ve met a good handful of other volunteers. They all seem like decent people and they’re all good with the students. I imagine everyone […]
Posted in Guest Bloggers
Thursday, February 2nd, 2006
Sarah Anderson is a teacher at Schiller Elementary School. She started The Neighborhood Project: A Cabrini Green Youth Perspective in Photographs and Words with her students this past summer.
When I first attended the 826CHI “Teacher’s Happy Hour”, I had no idea that a creative project I had going on at my school would find […]
Posted in Guest Bloggers
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