joining me is zachary clark who is executive directorf 826 d.c. welcome. >> happy to be here. d.c. what is 826 >> you wouldn't know it by the name but we're a writing center and publishing house for d.c.yo uth. we work with more than 3,000 youth teaching writing in schools andn our writing center in columbia heights and publishing their work in books. focused. eracy >> yes. it's hard to learn writing, right? we think that it sort of comes naturally but it takes a lot of work and practice and so what we offer tond students a teachers across the district is t opportunity to develop writing as aractice and life long skill. >> who do you teach? >> 300 students. half stundents come to the center. we teach writing workshops and weave field trips and on site book binding studio and the other half we go to their classrooms and work with their teachers to develop a writing currulum that inspires them to love write. >> so you're working with the schools all yearlong. >> all yearlong. >> then when summer comes you have a special writing science camp. >> yes. one of the exciting things we have