Literacy Unbound

This summer, we're exploring an American story of migration and the reverberations of collective movement to, within, and out of the United States, using Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns as inspiration.

Interested in joining us? Apply for our 2023 Summer Institute below!

Apply for the Literacy Unbound Summer Institute An arts-integrated, project-based learning experience that will culminate in the creation of a live performance.

K-12 teachers & high school students: join us this July for an arts-infused, project-based learning experience that will culminate in the creation of an original performance at Teachers College, Columbia University.

Applications are open through May 15!

Apply for the Literacy Unbound Summer Institute An arts-integrated, project-based learning experience that will culminate in the creation of a live performance.

Apply for the Literacy Unbound Summer Institute An arts-integrated, project-based learning experience that will culminate in the creation of a live performance.

Our Summer Institute is back — and in person at Teachers College, Columbia University for the first time since 2019 — and applications are officially open!

This year we'll be exploring The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson, building toward an original, live performance that will debut on the Teachers College campus.

Click below to apply as a K-12 teacher or a student in grades 9-12!

Apply for the Literacy Unbound Summer Institute An arts-integrated, project-based learning experience that will culminate in the creation of a live performance.

For anyone who is in Anaheim for NCTE:
Come join us for a presentation about what can be learned from our experiences shifting Literacy Unbound online during the pandemic.

Saturday (11/19)
2:45 PM PST - 4:00 PM PST
Location: 203-B

We are still accepting applications from both teacher and student applicants. The institute is online this year, so you can be anywhere and still participate (as long as you have an internet connection)!

Apply for the Literacy Unbound Summer Institute An arts-integrated, project-based learning experience that will culminate in the creation of an original film.

I write to tell you that--after a hiatus last summer--Literacy Unbound will return this July 2022, and we'll remain entirely online. This means, of course, that anyone anywhere in the world might participate! Together, we'll be exploring Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies and considering particularly the intersections between literature and history. As in 2020, our core practices will remain the same, but in place of our traditional in person performance, our work this summer will culminate in the live streaming of a collaboratively produced original film. Below is the official Literacy Unbound 2022 Summer Institute call for applications.

Apply for the Literacy Unbound Summer Institute An arts-integrated, project-based learning experience that will culminate in the creation of an original film.

We're moving online this year! Together, we'll explore Jhumpa Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning short story collection Interpreter of Maladies in the Literacy Unbound Summer Institute 2020 (synchronous work July 20-August 1). Working with teaching artists and our team of facilitators, selected high school students and teachers will collaborate to produce an original film...join us to take this leap! Apply by Monday, June 8th! CTLE hours will be available.

Collaborative Online Institute: July 5 - August 1 Literacy Unbound's arts-integrated, project-based learning experience that will culminate in the creation of an original film.

A call for all teachers AND students:

Literacy Unbound is happening again. We are moving the institute online. I'm excited about the creative possibilities. I am also excited because students and teachers can now participate without the difficulty of spending two weeks in NYC in July.

Collaborative Online Institute: July 5 - August 1 Literacy Unbound's arts-integrated, project-based learning experience that will culminate in the creation of an original film.