Sac Area Youth Speaks

SAYS Mission: Sacramento Area Youth Speaks (SAYS) is a program within the UC Davis School of Education CRESS Center that engages, educates, and empowers students, poet-mentor educators, and teachers in a collaborative, innovative partnership both within and beyond the walls of school.

SAYS Program: At SAYS, writing is a transformative, autobiographical, and transformative tool that enables participants to critically reflect upon and read the world around them. In this vein, literacy and learning are alive in the lives of those we teach. Evidence obtained from research on SAYS is showing that when students and teachers participate in this critical literacy pedagogy together, we can not only improve literacy skills, but also change the way students and teachers relate to one another.