Bring LitKids Create to Your School or Organization
Every child has ideas, experiences, and perspectives worth sharing. LitKids Create partners with schools and youth-serving organizations to create engaging experiences where students can explore their creativity, build confidence, and express themselves through storytelling.
Based in Norfolk, Virginia, we serve schools and organizations across Hampton Roads and beyond, in person and virtually.
Student Voice Guides Everything We Do.
Student Voice and Creative Ownership
LitKids Create is centered on student voice. Children explore their own ideas, make their own creative choices, and share what they have to say in ways that feel natural to them.
Adults guide and support the experience, but the ideas stay with the child.
Confidence Before Correction™
Our Confidence Before Correction™ approach encourages adults to recognize a child’s ideas, support their creative expression, and build confidence before emphasizing corrections. It applies across storytelling and creative expression, including writing, drawing, speaking, and performing.
Notice → Get Curious → Encourage → Then Correct
Instruction and correction still matter. They simply follow understanding the idea. LitKids Create experiences work alongside the instruction educators already provide, not in place of it.
Ways to Bring LitKids Create to Students.
Books By Me™
A child-centered young author and student publishing experience for schools, libraries, and youth organizations. Students develop their own stories and make their own creative decisions, guided by our LIT™ framework (Let Imagination Take Shape™): Explore → Choose → Build → Write. A published student anthology and an author celebration can be part of a partnership.
Explore Books By Me™The Idea Lab
Ideas can take more than one form. The Idea Lab gives children space to imagine, experiment, solve problems, and communicate their thinking in the way that works for them, whether they write, draw, build, speak, act, design, or move.
Explore The Idea LabYour Voice Holds Weight
An empowering school keynote that helps students recognize the value of what they have to say. Through personal storytelling, reflection, and student interaction, Paula Banks encourages young people to trust their ideas, express themselves authentically, and keep developing their voices.
Explore the School KeynoteSchools and Youth-Serving Organizations.
LitKids Create works with the school leaders, program coordinators, and librarians who bring meaningful experiences to their students.
- Elementary schools
- After-school programs
- Libraries
- Community organizations
- Youth-serving programs
LitKids Create is an approved NPS Educational Enrichment Vendor.
Room to Create, Share, and Be Heard.
Creative Expression
Room to share ideas in the forms that feel natural, such as writing, drawing, building, speaking, or performing.
Storytelling
Opportunities to imagine, develop, and tell stories that belong to them.
Collaboration
Space to listen, share ideas, and create alongside their peers.
Building Confidence
Encouragement that helps children trust that their ideas matter.
Sharing Their Ideas
Chances to share their work and be heard by others.
Bring LitKids Create to Your Students.
Tell us about your school, library, or youth organization and what you hope students will experience. We’ll talk through what a partnership could look like.