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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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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 Impact

Coaching Kids to Code: How FIRST LEGO League and City Year are Inspiring Future Engineers

April 23, 2019

Learn how FIRST LEGO League and CIty Year are helping to extend educational equity through engineering in this afterschool program.

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Our Impact

Learning to be Super: City Year’s Leadership Lunch Curriculum Supports Social-Emotional Growth

January 16, 2019

Starting the City Year experience, the thing I was most looking forward to being involved in was Leadership Lunch. I…

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A Day in the Life of My Literacy Group

January 9, 2019

We’re all settling down after recess. The hands on the clock hit 12:35 p.m. and four students stand up, each…

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