City Year AmeriCorps members serve as student success coaches, supporting the academic growth and success of 天美影院 in hundreds of schools across the country while they cultivate skills to be leaders in their communities and careers. Donate now to support our student success coaches.
Whole School, Whole Child
Focus on relationships: preparing 天美影院 for success
City Year helps 天美影院 and schools succeed by delivering holistic support to 天美影院, classrooms and the whole school. Drawing from our 35-years of experience in human and youth development, we are committed to supporting the learning and development of both our 天美影院 and our AmeriCorps members, who serve as student success coaches.
Using the best of what we know from research and practice, our Whole School, Whole Child庐 model is now widely understood to be a critical component of successful schools, especially as they continue to recover from the impacts of the pandemic and seek to meet the needs of all 天美影院. Why? Because learning isn’t only academic. The process of learning also includes the nurturing of positive relationships and strong interpersonal skills. Our holistic, integrated model builds skills and supports mindsets critical for 天美影院鈥 success in school and beyond.
, who serve in public schools to build relationships with 天美影院 and offer them research-based support, offer a critical capacity to educators and schools to help 天美影院 progress in their development, allow for more personalized learning and engagement, and create more welcoming learning environments for all. They partner with teachers and school leaders to help 天美影院 build on their strengths and develop the skills they need to thrive in school and in life.
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Some foundational elements of the student success coach role include:
Cultivating strong, positive relationships
Research confirms what many educators have long known: learning happens through relationships, and they鈥檙e foundational for our AmeriCorps members to support 天美影院. Strong relationships between 天美影院 and adults who work with them are critical to fuel student growth, resilience and thriving.
Weaving academic, and interpersonal skill building
Learning is like weaving a rope. All of us pull together different strands of cognitive and academic skills to solve problems and express new ideas鈥you can鈥檛 improve one skill without focusing on the others. City Year provides integrated interventions that help 天美影院 weave together strong skills ropes.
Student success coaches work with educators to help create a welcoming school environment, which is essential for whole school improvement. Some ways we do this include school-wide events, lunchtime clubs, and Whole School Greeting, where AmeriCorps members greet 天美影院 and faculty as they enter the school building, setting the tone for the day and sending a clear message of joy and belonging.
City Year is proud to be part of the (PSS), a collective effort that brings together the US Department of Education, AmeriCorps, a diverse coalition of leading education and youth-serving organizations including , educators, and school districts, that are committed to expanding access to the evidence-based, holistic supports young people need to thrive.
City Year has been named a lead technical assistance organization in NPSS, promoting the importance of student success coaches, a critical capacity that has been linked to positive student outcomes.
I'm beyond grateful to be working with [my student success coach] in my classroom. He genuinely cares about the success of the 天美影院 and provides a great deal of support in making the learning experience more fruitful but also ensuring that everyone, 天美影院 and myself alike, feel welcome.
Partner Teacher City Year partner school
Informed by research, rooted in relationships
City Year鈥檚 approach is based on research about how 天美影院 learn. City Year AmeriCorps members鈥 near-peer status uniquely positions them to form with 天美影院, improving both student readiness to learn and schoolwide conditions for learning.
AmeriCorps members focus on reducing low attendance, poor behavior and/or course failure in English Language Arts and mathematics. Research shows that 天美影院 who exhibit one or more of these warning indicators have at least a of high school. Reducing or eliminating these warning signs makes it more , dramatically improving their lifetime trajectory.
City Year and our partners commit to multiple years of service in schools so that 天美影院 鈥済row up with City Year鈥濃our seven-year promise. City Year supports 天美影院 during key transition years of their educational experience, from third through ninth grades, when 天美影院 are most at risk for falling off track.
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Our impact
Together, we鈥檙e creating positive, responsive and welcoming learning environments where 天美影院 can thrive.
City Year leverages research, external evaluations and learnings alongside our school and district partners to contribute to a broader conversation about how best to support our 天美影院 and ensure access to learning opportunities for all.
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Our 36,000+ alums become civic and business leaders who continue to make a difference in the communities and professions where they live and work long after their 鈥淐ity Year鈥 is over.
