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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…

At a school in California, a student named Juan* takes a deep breath by the classroom door before returning to…

In the 65 years since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education that racial segregation in…

A battle of mathematical wits is playing out in a cramped but colorful classroom. Ruben*, an outgoing fourth-grader with dark…

It’s a wintry, late afternoon in the Bronx, and teachers and students stream outside into the cold air at the…

For Black History Month, City Year Philadelphia is honoring people and institutions that are African American pioneers in education, such as…

October was LGBTQIA+ history month. It’s a great time to do some reflection and look at how far we have…

Sometimes referred to as non-cognitive skills, social and emotional aptitudes such as self-management, goal-setting and problem solving have, in the…

There’s a picture of me in my mother’s battered “First years in America” album where I’m sipping a Coke from…

Learn more about the City Year AmeriCorps service experience, which prioritizes building relationships as a tool for equitable learning.

Learn about City Year’s ongoing efforts to integrate research-based academic and social-emotional supports in schools across the country.

During the class reading time, Jolene would cringe when it was her turn to read out loud and often didn’t…