Training students from disadvantaged neighborhoods to speak out
Our feedback events: young people's voices heard!
Dear Difteur-ses,
A few days ago, students who have followed our program throughout the year took the floor in symbolic places to share their stories, their ideas, their convictions.
Since January, 100 classes from REP/REP+ middle schools and priority public high schools in the Île-de-France region and Montpellier have been accompanied by our volunteer trainers and coaches as part of our 10-session speech training program.
And today, that's it: the restitutions are done!
Since the end of April, the representatives chosen in the classes came to represent them at the school finals. These chosen students then went on to defend their speeches, and their schools, at the academic finals (Paris, Versailles, Créteil, Occitanie), and finally at the Grand Finale on June 12 in the Galerie des Batailles in Versailles.
For their part, the middle-school students also had their restitution event! They were all welcomed at the Institut du Monde Arabe on June 3. They were all very enthusiastic about presenting their skits on themes close to their hearts.
We were thus lucky enough to discover more than 35 performances, and each one impressed and marked us greatly, with strong themes such as the relationship to the body, school pressure or war (among many others).
A big THANK YOU for your support!
Beginning of training in +100 classes of 4e and 2nde
Dear difteurs,
Since mid-January, over 3500 students have embarked on the Trouve Ta Voix! adventure.
More than110 classes from 50 REP/REP+ middle schools and priority public high schools have in fact started the TTV program. 10 sessions will be run in each class until May by our volunteer trainers. This will represent over 2000 hours of training.
As a team, this is one of our favorite moments of the school year. What a pleasure to discover the students who, session after session, reveal themselves, gain self-confidence, grow thanks to the oral work... What an opportunity to work so closely with the teachers who support the project and welcome our volunteers into their classrooms with great generosity and a deep investment in the youngsters.
In 4th grade, as part of our collège program, students collectively choose a theme, a subject of citizenship that touches them in order to build multi-voice narratives that they will restitute in June as part of the Festival Les Collégiens ont la parole.
In 2nd grade, high school students write individual speeches on introspective topics such as:
What would I do if I weren't afraid? What does it mean to succeed in life?
What about you? What would you do if you weren't afraid?
A big thank you to you, dear difters, for your invaluable support and donations ✨
See you soon!
The TTV team
Information for 2024-2025
Dear difteurs,
In 2024-2025, we at Trouve Ta Voix are preparing to support more than 110 classes in the Ile-de-France region and 15 in the Montpellier academy! This will represent over 2,000 hours of training in speaking delivered to classes in our partner collèges and lycées thanks to the commitment of our super trainers!
Until the end of November, as part of our trainer recruitment campaign, we're looking for volunteers to join our collective adventure!
Active young people or students aged 18 to 30, if you'd like to get involved alongside us
Thank you a thousand times over for your support and see you soon!
All the info on our website: https://trouvetavoix.org/sengager/
Return events 2023-2024
With the 2024-2025 school year off to a flying start and us getting ready to intervene in over 100 4th and 2nd grade classes in Île-de-France and Occitanie, let's take a look back at our restitution events last June:
The 1st edition of the "Les Collégiens ont la parole" festival at the Théâtre de la Concorde, on June 3, 2024: 300 4th graders, beneficiaries of the Trouve Ta Voix program, gathered to listen to stories prepared in class and debate, during agora times, social issues that affect them.
It's time for young people to have their say!
After 5 months of in-class training, it's time for the second-year students taking part in the Trouve Ta Voix program to express themselves to the general public!
Since the end of April, the representatives chosen in the classes have been representing their schools at the school finals. The students chosen at these finals will go on to defend their speeches and their schools at the academic finals (Paris, Versailles, Créteil, Occitanie), culminating in the Grand Finale in mid-June.
These finals are an opportunity for young people to take their place, in symbolic and prestigious venues, and give them access to a world that sometimes remains unknown to them.
For their part, the schoolchildren are also preparing for their restitution event!
The representatives of the various classes will restitute their speeches on June 4, at the Théâtre de la Concorde, and all the classes will take part in an experiment in participative democracy.
Since the end of April, the representatives chosen in the classes have been representing their schools at the school finals. The students chosen at these finals will go on to defend their speeches and their schools at the academic finals (Paris, Versailles, Créteil, Occitanie), culminating in the Grand Finale in mid-June.
These finals are an opportunity for young people to take their place, in symbolic and prestigious venues, and give them access to a world that sometimes remains unknown to them.
For their part, the schoolchildren are also preparing for their restitution event!
The representatives of the various classes will restitute their speeches on June 4, at the Théâtre de la Concorde, and all the classes will take part in an experiment in participative democracy.
The first classroom interventions have begun!
This is it! The volunteer trainers were indeed trained last December by Trouve Ta Voix, and since mid-January they've been visiting classrooms to train students in public speaking.
And the first results are present: "It's crazy to see how an extremely shy student at the start of the session, who didn't even want to give her first name, ended up being the most dynamic student in the group by the end."
That's over 2,500 students from priority public middle and high schools in the Paris region, as well as in Occitania and the Grand-Est, who are being trained until May, in their classrooms over 10 sessions.
See you in May for the finals and restitutions, as well as the Festival Les collégiens ont la parole!
And the first results are present: "It's crazy to see how an extremely shy student at the start of the session, who didn't even want to give her first name, ended up being the most dynamic student in the group by the end."
That's over 2,500 students from priority public middle and high schools in the Paris region, as well as in Occitania and the Grand-Est, who are being trained until May, in their classrooms over 10 sessions.
See you in May for the finals and restitutions, as well as the Festival Les collégiens ont la parole!
Trouve Ta Voix launches its Christmas campaign!
Remember...You're facing the whole class and you have to speak.
Remember...You're facing recruiters for the first time in your life and you hear: "tell us about your career".
Remember...You've prepared for this first event at your company and you have to host it...
Remember that fateful conversation with your loved ones and you have to express your emotions...
What feeling did you have? Did you have the codes? Did you hold on to a speaking course you'd had at school to help you through this pivotal moment?
If you haven't experienced this discomfort, this disabling shyness, you surely know someone around you to whom it has happened or is still happening.
Our project at Trouve Ta Voix? To enable all young people to reveal their full potential through speaking out, and so help them to integrate professionally, develop personally, and encourage civic participation.
With Christmas just around the corner, it's the perfect time for such a meaningful and supportive gesture!"
With Christmas just around the corner, it's the perfect time for such a meaningful and supportive gesture!"
The Trouve Ta Voix team wishes you all a very happy festive season! And we're counting on you!
Video recap of the final of the Trouve Ta Voix eloquence contest in the Salle du Congrès at the Château de Versailles.
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Final of the Trouve Ta Voix high school contest in the Salle du Congrès at the Château de Versailles
After the Academic semi-finals in Paris, Versailles and Créteil, where high school students took the floor in places with strong symbolic value...
...it's with great joy that the Trouve Ta Voix team announces that on June 14 took place, the grande finale of the Trouve Ta Voix 2023 contest!
A big THANK YOU for helping to make this event happen, highlighting the voices of our young people!
🌟 "ℚ𝕦𝕖 𝕧𝕠𝕦𝕕𝕣𝕚𝕖𝕫-𝕧𝕠𝕦𝕤 𝕕𝕚𝕣𝕖 𝕒𝕦 𝕞𝕠𝕟𝕕𝕖 ?" 🌟
It was on this topic that the 6 finalist beneficiaries of the Trouve Ta Voix program made their voices heard in the salle du congrès du Château de Versailles.
"You're in trouble", these words of distress are addressed to the planet, but Liyah asserts that TODAY "we can change the world with words".
Every young person has a voice and that voice counts!
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