Playlist: Listen Up! Audio for Educators
Compiled By: Listen Up! Audio for Educators
A collection of pieces to inspire teaching from every angle.
Chicagoans Consider Their Road Not Taken
From Curie Youth Radio | 00:01:53
A lovely piece from Armand Curtis of Curie Youth Radio that combines Frost's poem with three Chicagoans considering the choices they've made throughout their lives.
And, How Does That Make You Feel?
From Blunt Youth Radio Project | 00:13:17
Kathleen Ross of Blunt Youth Radio uses radio drama and strong writing to explore teen suicide from an insider's perspective.
I Live In Martin Luther King Plaza; What About You?
From Curie Youth Radio | 00:02:42
Angela Griden of Curie Youth Radio's audio postcard with attitude.
Letter to My Mom: You Haven't Lost Me
From Curie Youth Radio | 00:02:21
Natalie Marquez of Curie Youth Radio on Chuck E. Cheese and mother/daughter estrangement.
The Perfect Gift for the Five-Foot Basketball Player
From Curie Youth Radio | 00:01:33
Keith Shine's gift to his cousin: height.
Our Name is Rogelio Bautista
From KRCB Voice of Youth | 00:21:26
From the perspective of newspaper accounts and police reports, Rogelio Bautista died for a word, a color, a number, his death jotted down as just another statistic in our escalating gang war…but that’s not the perspective of the four narrators of the story “Our name is Rogelio Bautista.”
WUTB-Variation 5A -Quiet, Gentle Version
From David Green | Part of the We Used To Believe... series | 00:01:25
When you were younger, did you ever believe something which turned out not to be true? How about recently?
Producers Aliana and Sophie reveal the wide range of misconceptions children can hold.
Legal Emancipation
From Radio Rookies | 00:09:57
At 15 emancipation has brought both freedom and hardship for Radio Rookie Jordan Teklay. Now 17, he's trying to understand what it means to be an adult.
Lunchroom
From David Green | Part of the School Scenes series | 00:02:15
Third grader Evan remembers the simple pleasures of first grade: blue sports drink.
Sex Without Condoms is the New Engagement Ring
From Youth Radio | Part of the Youth Radio's the Best of "What's the New What?" series | 00:03:02
Youth Radio's Pendarvis Harshaw says that for a lot of his friends, the transition from having sex with a condom to sex without, is seen as a symbolic "engagement."
Running from Myself
From 826NYC | 00:17:50
Louis struggles to reconcile bad choices he's made in the past.
Should I Stay or Should I Go (To the Prom)
From Blunt Youth Radio Project | 00:05:19
It's considered by many to be a rite of passage, but Blunt reporter David Barber-Callaghan isn't sure whether he wants to go to his senior prom. In search of advice he turns to his classmates, past graduates, and his own mother.
BART Slaying Gives Oakland Rocky Start in '09
From Youth Outlook | 00:05:16
On New Years, most people were dancing and drinking a little too much champagne. Among the thousands of people celebrating that night was a young man named Oscar Grant whose life was tragically cut short
Growing Up in The System
From Radio Rookies | 00:11:40
WNYC Radio Rookie, Shirley Diaz's life has been shaped by the tragedy of her mother's murder and having been raised in several foster homes. To avoid being consumed by loss, Shirley tries to make sense of it all.
Alan Wolf
From SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network | Part of the Passionate Citizens series | 00:07:04
Alan Wolf stands on a street corner every Saturday, protesting the war.
Language Arts
From SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network | Part of the Passionate Citizens series | 00:05:44
Anya Sippen profiles Language Arts, a Durham-based hip-hop group
Young Drivers
From SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network | 00:10:45
This piece investigates the experiences of teen drivers and the adults who support them.
Standing Outside An Execution
From KRCB Voice of Youth | 00:10:59
On December 13, 2005, the state of California executed a man named Stanley "Tookie" Williams. Voice of Youth was there that night, outside San Quentin, among the crowd of thousands, and 19 year old Greg Shimada narrates his experience of the last four hours of Stanley Williams' life
What We Wish We Could Tell Our Parents
From april winbun | 00:01:31
Mom, Dad: About That Bullet Hole in the Basement...
Josh in New York City: Growing Up with Tourette's
From Radio Diaries | Part of the Teenage Diaries series | 00:12:23
Josh has Tourette's Syndrome, a neurological disorder that causes uncontrollable tics and involuntary verbal outbursts.
Dressy Girls
From SpiritHouse Inc/Youth Noise Network | 00:08:10
An investigation of self-esteem, skanks, and the clothing of high fashion highschool girls.
Auditorium
From David Green | Part of the School Scenes series | 00:02:49
A third grader recalls an unusual problem he had during an assembly when he was in first grade.
Joey Interviews a Cutter
From Blunt Youth Radio Project | Part of the Incarcerated Youth Speak Out series | 00:04:23
Joey from the Long Creek Youth Development Center (LCYDC) interviews a cutter.
