Keeping kids in school and on track through:
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City Year New Hampshire, an AmeriCorps member program, is dedicated to helping children stay in school and on track to graduate successfully.
City Year's approach to long-term school success is organized around a research-based service model. Through this model, diverse teams of full-time corps members serve in schools to help improve students’ ABCs - Attendance, Behavior, and Course performance in math and English – which research confirms are indicators of a student’s likelihood of graduating from high school.
As near-peers, who begin their service before the first bell rings and stay until the last child leaves the after-school program, corps members address the academic and soci-emotional needs of individual students who are falling off-track in their ABCs. Serving full time, corps members also work to improve the whole school environment by leading activities that foster a strong connection between students, parents, and the school community.
Corps members are providing the right interventions to the right students at the right time.
As a result, targeted students improve their academic performance and attendance as they become more capable, committed and confident learners, and ultimately stay on track to graduation.
A - Attendance
Corps Members are working to inspire more than 2700 kids on a daily basis to come to school ready to learn and on-time in 6 schools through activities such as morning greeting and phone calls home to parents when students are absent. Manchester has the lowest middle school attendance rate in the state, and we need to combat that starting in the elementary schools, helping to foster a positive environment for learning.
“Some of my students didn't like school, but they like to come now because they think that City Year members are cool!”
– Manchester Teacher
B - Behavior
Corps members get to know students beyond their performance in the classroom. They work with the teacher to learn about their background, their struggles and their aspirations. Through their mentor relationship to these students, they inspire kids to behave in a more positive way.
“The corps member in my classroom takes the time to listen and help students work through their feelings. He shows the students that he cares for them and they respond accordingly with positive behavior.”
– Manchester Teacher
C - Course Performance in English & Math
Corps members serving in schools are providing 350 targeted students with the small group and one-on-one academic attention that allows both the student to get individualized support and guidance and the teacher to focus on the class as a whole.
“One of my students was not completing homework on a regular basis. Since the corps member has been monitoring daily agenda entries, homework is being completed all the time.”
– Manchester Teacher