This website is a collective network for educators & ambassadors with Do the Write Thing, providing supports for engagement and implementation. 

You will find an abundance of implementation resources, mental health resources, sensitive conversations supports, open forums, and impact data.  

All of it for the same mission: to continue the impact - to continue the conversations - to heal our communities - to help stop the violence.

Initial engagement with DtWT and classroom discussion has proven to be beneficial to school cultures.

However, the greatest healing from youth violence is consequential to long-lasting conversation and a shift in the school's ethos - it is our job, as the aware, to lift up student voices and demand safe spaces.

DtWT has seen tremendous evidence through the annual summit as students write about, reflect, share their experiences, and provide solutions to youth violence.  

But our work cannot stop there.  As educators, it is our charge to inspire young minds in the pursuit of violence-free communities.  May this passion seep into the fabric our our schools.

“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that 

grows flowers, not thunder.”

 — Rumi 

We also recognize that it is essential for educators to practice their own healing.

If we do not heal from within, we are unable to heal the communities surrounding us.

“As practitioners, it is necessary to practice what we wish to see 

from our students.  We must model care for our own mental health 

and engagement of discussion in violence-prevention just as we model 

critical thinking skills in our classrooms.  If we do not, we are at high risk for a great injustice

 to our young people.”

 — Austin Spidell (Participating Educator 

- Knoxville, TN)

• Year-round implementation of Do the Write Thing materials and discussions.

• Local committees, including youth members, that advocate for youth-violence prevention.

• Violence-prevention initiatives in local schools.