Feedback from Pacific Palisades Charter High School Teacher Dennis Danziger
A Teacher’s Response to the PEN in the Classroom Experience:
PEN in the Classroom
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Since 1995, PEN in the Classroom (PITC) has helped thousands of underserved Southern California high school students discover the power of their unique voices by sending professional poets, novelists, screenwriters, and journalists into their classrooms for 12-week-long creative writing residencies. Operating mostly in schools whose test scores lag far behind national and state averages, our residencies center on the power of language, the empowering transcendence of words, and the revelatory ability to master them. PITC visiting writers hone the tools young writers inherently possess, while simultaneously exposing them to a professional world many of them have never before considered.
