City Year this Week – January 20
City Year Communications
Fri 1/20/2023 2:06 PM
CITY YEAR THIS WEEK
Spotlight on City Year: Media from the week of January 20, 2023
OUR STORIES FROM THE BLOG
Five
qualities that will make you a great mentor
Studies show that benefit significantly from the guidance and support of mentors and other caring adults. Young people who have mentors skip school less, are more likely to volunteer and more apt to take on leadership roles, for example. And for National
Reimagining our schools by building trust
The pandemic experience has highlighted—perhaps more than at any other time in our history—the urgent need to reimagine, rebuild, and resource our educational system so that all students have access to positive learning environments and relationships.
Mentoring Month, we’re celebrating how City Year AmeriCorps members act as mentors and cheerleaders for their students. Read More.
These factors enable young people to acquire the skills, knowledge and resilience they need to succeed after they graduate from high school. We all benefit when our students succeed. Read More.
MEDIA ON CITY YEAR
See it: Quamid Francis discusses MLK Day of Service event at Highbridge Green School in the South Bronx
CBS 2 NEW YORK
Quamid Francis, executive director of City Year New York, spoke with CBS2's Chris Wragge and Mary Calvi about an event at the Highbridge Green School. Watch Now City Year MLK Day of Service; alumna happy to see change
FOX 6
A City Year AmeriCorps member tells Brhett how it feels for her school to be chosen for MLK Day of Service. Watch Now.
Pulso Comunitario: City Year Philadelphia, Julia de Burgos Bookstore @ TTaller Puertorriqueño
IHEART RADIO
Dr. Evelyn Nuñes, Chief of Schools Philadelphia Conversación sobre la program City Year. Listen Now.
'MLK Day of Service' leads to a decorated Tulsa high school
2 NEWS OKLAHOMA
City Year Tulsa team leader Ashley Ivanoff called Monday’s projects a way
to enhance a culture of positivity through serving. “We want to make sure they have a space in the school that they are going to be excited to go to so that we can really enhance that spirit and that joy that they get from being at the school,” Ivanoff said. Watch Now.
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