Even through a year of virtual learning in so many places, Catalyst teachers saw high student engagement and collaboration. This holds especially true for Tara Beardsley’s science class at Winter Hill Innovation School in Somerville, MA.
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The Catalyst Project supported by Citizen Schools works to bridge the gap in education so that all of our students succeed. Our students need authentic experiences to see diversity in their classrooms and exposure to STEM career pathways. So let's all be the champions that our students need.
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Citizen Schools Makers + Mentors Network celebrated the inaugural Maker Fellow class with an end of the year Maker Fellow Showcase on July 20–22, 2021. Maker Fellows presented 24 unique programs developed during the service year to the greater Maker community and public.
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Citizen Schools announced today the organization received a $750,000 grant from American Student Assistance® (ASA), a national nonprofit that helps to foster student understanding of post-secondary education and career pathways.
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Watch Jeff Mysel, a Career Mentor from Google, and Stuart Whitney, a science teacher in Somerville, MA, share their experiences with experiential learning though the Catalyst Climate Change project.
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We are excited to announce the 2021 Citizen Schools Staff & Service Member Awards winners! These awards honor the hard work and dedication of our team over the last year. This important tradition builds on our values of confidence, curiosity, DEI, perseverance, and teamwork—and gives us an excellent opportunity to celebrate the great work of our peers.
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We can't thank you all enough for helping us make #CycED2021 with Hot HIIT a success. It was a day of intense sweating, laughing and celebrating, and we couldn't have done it without you.
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Through the generosity of Infosys Foundation USA’s grant, the Citizen Schools’ Catalyst team and Makers + Mentors Network created a four-part live webinar series to help grades 5-8 educators create meaningful student engagement.
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This year Citizen Schools hosted nine WOW! celebrations with thousands of students, parents, teachers, and community members to highlight students’ hard work from their apprenticeships.
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MICRO and Makers + Mentors Network recently partnered together, where Maker Fellows and other members of the team participated in a month-long series of workshops and collaborative conversations to develop their ideas for a museum.
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Catalyst Teacher Sylvia Beckham has been an invaluable asset to the Innovation Cohort and advancing STEM learning. She provided some practical tips for teachers who are looking to bring experiential learning into the classroom.
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Make For All, a national coalition of leading organizations focused on broadening access to maker-centered learning opportunities for students is announcing 40 new partnerships, collaborations and initiatives.
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In April 2021, Trevon Adams, Nadia K. Selby, and Kruschef Sanchez were invited to join Connor Anovick, a former Citizen Schools volunteer himself. They discuss how COVID has impacted public schools and how Citizen Schools supports public schools, both during and before the pandemic.
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The Makers + Mentors Network Maker Fellow program is designed to connect K-12 students to new, disruptive learning opportunities that help students build the academic and social-emotional skills key to their success in school, post-secondary enrollment, and workforce placement. We are adding ten new locations in four new states, and with a growing number of HBCUs and our first tribal college partner as host sites.
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Citizen Schools students recently had the opportunity to participate in our special Shark Tank event, which included four weeks of learning through a detailed set of modules called GoIT. Students who participated had the opportunity to learn about app development and pitched ideas to a panel of judges.
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When you are serving students during a pandemic, your after-school programming looks a lot different.
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During our three-part series, Elevating Voices For Equity, we learn, engage, and bring together community members to uplift Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) voices. In our first event, K-12 Educational Equity and Access, we hear from: Orlando Watkins, Jean Claude Brizard, Amanda Fernandez, Bing Howell, and Frankline Mardi.
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Citizen Schools Makers + Mentors Network is leading a team as part of the Reach for the Upside initiative, hosted by the K12 Lab at Stanford's Hasso Plattner Institute of Design (the “d.school”) in partnership with Genentech and with participation of Northern California Community foundations.
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2020 has been a year filled with tragedy, anxiety and uncertainty as communities have dealt with the COVID-19 pandemic and the greater realization that systemic racism has existed for years and that something must be done about this immediately. We also saw intense wildfires and storms affecting so many areas of the country, including some in our own backyard. We know that these catastrophic events have disproportionately affected communities of color.
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