Get Lit - Words Ignite

Uni(verse) is Get Lit's revolutionary hybrid learning system that fuses education, technology, and media, centered on youth voices. Featuring our proven, award-winning Spoken Word curriculum including an annually-updated digital Anthology of thousands of poems, Uni(verse) gives teachers and students powerful tools to elevate learning and literacy levels, and provides an inspiring path to social-emotional learning combined with training in 21st century life and workplace skills of communication, critical thinking, creativity, and collaboration.

This grant will support the launch of Get Lit’s Online In-School Curriculum for all students and teachers in L.A. County. Our award-winning and impactful poetry, literacy, and youth empowerment curriculum is the only program in the nation that combines learning classic literature with the creation of poems by youth. It is approved as a Univ of CA ‘A-G’ college prep elective, and has been proven to significantly raise youth literacy, reduce drop-out rates and improve graduation rates, and deeply affect students’ socio-emotional wellbeing.