Kids learn by doing—from real experts

Citizen Schools recruits Citizen Teachers from businesses, civic institutions and communities, and trains them to teach what they know best – their own professional or life experience. Taught in 90-minute sessions twice a week for 11 weeks, these hands-on learning projects emphasize the broad set of skills necessary for success in the modern economy: leadership, teamwork, oral communication and technology.

Each apprenticeship culminates in a WOW!, a product, performance, or presentation produced by the students and taught back to the community. Our students build solar cars, litigate mock trials, publish children's books, manage stock portfolios, design urban parks, launch websites and, most importantly, gain the self-confidence that comes from looking at their work and saying, "I did that." And the volunteer Citizen Teachers can say, "I showed them how."

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