Our stories
Read a collection of stories and learn from the perspectives and experiences of our City Year AmeriCorps members, students, partners and alums.
This 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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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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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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At a school in California, a student named Juan* takes a deep breath by the classroom door before returning to…
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In the 65 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in…
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Whether it’s taking over a failed project or building new skills, Ellen approaches every challenge as a learning opportunity–an attitude…
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A battle of mathematical wits is playing out in a cramped but colorful classroom. Ruben*, an outgoing fourth-grader with dark…
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