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Read a collection of stories and learn from the perspectives and experiences of our City Year AmeriCorps members, students, partners and alums.
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A Promise to Our Students: Including Diversity in Literature
October 17, 2019
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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Education
Planning a Literacy Family Engagement Night
May 16, 2019
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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Our Alumni
Running with Sherry Leung: an Alumna’s Commitment to #makebetterhappen
December 17, 2018
Believe or not, I used to really hate running. Running was a constant reminder for me of all the things…
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Education
Build Literacy, Build Civic Leaders
September 25, 2018
There’s a picture of me in my mother’s battered “First years in America” album where I’m sipping a Coke from…
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National Strategic Partners
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