Our stories
Read a collection of stories and learn from the perspectives and experiences of our City Year AmeriCorps members, students, partners and alumni.
This year, City Year Milwaukee was chosen to be a part of the Network for School Improvement pilot program. Together,…
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The District Learning Network gathers several times throughout the year, both in-person and virtually, discussing shared challenges and surfacing strategies,…
Read the storyThis school year, the City Year Philadelphia AmeriCorps team serving at Alexander K. McClure Elementary School saw a unique opportunity to address two…
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When I remember my childhood, I see the reading nook in my first-grade classroom, my mom helping me to pick a book in…
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Inside Rhode Island’s largest elementary school, four fifth-grade students gather around a small table scattered with worksheets and dice.
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We’re excited that City Year will be presenting in Chicago this week at CASEL’s first Social and Emotional Learning conference,…
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Early experience working in schools taught Heather Graham and Bethiel Girma Holton an important lesson that guides their work today…
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For a lot of students, school is just a place where you’re getting yelled at, suspended or kicked out of…
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Longtime supporters of City Year and AmeriCorps gathered on Capitol Hill this spring in support of national service programs that…
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Nikolai Vitti has an ambitious vision for student success in Detroit Public Schools Community District.
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We are encouraged by the results from the recent 2019 Building a Grad Nation report that shows the U.S. national…
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Planning McDonough’s literacy night was the most exhilarating, exhausting, stressful, and rewarding thing I have done at City Year (or…
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