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The City School on Facebook The City School on Twitter The City School on Youtube from Summer Leadership Program 2010 Visit TheCitySchoolBoston, our new YouTube channel, to see videos produced this summer by Lewis Hine Documentary Fellow Erika Simon.
Contact Seth Kirshenbaum with questions about the Summer Leadership Program. seth@thecityschool.org The City School is grateful to The Center for Documentary Studies at Duke for placing a Hine Fellow with us for the 2010 Summer Leadership Program. 2010 Posse Congrats! Social
Justice for Adults After-School
& Weekend Youth Programs City
School on YouTube Congrats,
Royal Nunes! New
Orleans, 2008
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The City School is a vibrant and unique youth organization in Boston that brings together teenagers from Boston's diverse neighborhoods and outlying communities in programs that combine creative education and critical thinking about social justice issues with hands-on leadership, learning, reflection and action. Our goal is simple yet powerful: to transform lives and communities by helping young people embrace difference, tackle issues head-on, reflect, act and give back. Our model of youth work demonstrates how we educates ourselves and others to make meaningful change in the world around us. And it works. Each year nearly 800 young people come from the city and outlying communities for leadership development and social justice education in our summer, weekend and afterschool programs. Teens build relationships across race, class, gender and geography; create caring, learning communities committed to making a meaningful difference; and use what they learn to carry out action for social change in their neighborhoods and communities.
Our Programs In Brief... The Summer Leadership Program is where teens learn that individually and collectively, they are powerful agents of social change. Sixty diverse teens unite to bridge social barriers and empower themselves with hands-on leadership training, classroom learning, internships at local nonprofits, and social action projects they implement throughout the city. Youth Outreach Weekends engage teens in the realities of homelessness and poverty. City School youth leaders guide the way with challenging discussions, learning games, workshops to uncover root causes and undo sterotypes, and community service at nearby shelters and soup kitchens. The Prison Empowment Project connects people inside and outside of Massachusetts' prisons. Youth and adult participants travel to prisons to dialogue with volunteer inmates about the circumstances, behaviors and choices that have caused them to be behind bars. (Taught in collaboration with Boston Police Dept. Community Disorders Unit.) The Social Justice Education Institute uses The City School's pedagogy and youth-adult model to assist teachers, youth workers, administrators, civic leaders and others in developing curricula and programming with a strong social-justice-based focus. The goal is to transform our practices and engage young people to help support youth agency, voice and leadership. (Educators can receive Professional Development Points through the BPS Center for Leadership Development.) The Grads' Program promotes youth leadership, youth power and youth action for teens who've been through any City School program. It strengthens their leadership skills and knowledge, provides a proactive place for networking, and engages in youth-adult collaboration on advocacy, service work, retreats, the Youth Summit and more. Rose from Concrete uncovers the leadership potential in youth who are court-involved, through workshops, leadership training and learning groups at several DYS community re-entry sites. Contact
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