Our stories
Read a collection of stories and learn from the perspectives and experiences of our City Year AmeriCorps members, students, partners and alums.
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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The Corps
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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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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