Happy New Year! Here are this week’s media highlights from CYLA! From around the Interwebs: There’s always money in the Banana Stand: Only 5 days left to raise money for City Year and win a visit to the set of Arrested Development with Jason Bateman! The place to be seen: City Year LA’s Spring Break [...]
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City Year Los Angeles is very excited and beyond proud to welcome our next class of over 200 young leaders! The 2011-2012 corps represents the best of the most competitive applicant group City Year LA has ever seen. We received over 800 applications and only 1 in 4 applicants were accepted to the program. So [...]
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By Audrey Kuo, Young Heroes Project Leader, Spring 2011 Last Thursday, I had to stop myself from cheering way too loudly in a middle school multi-purpose room. I was thrilled to watch one of my students from last year emceeing his after-school graduation. James was one of the students I worked with most, a sixth [...]
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By Janeese Lewis, Hollenbeck Middle School, Fall 2010 From the first week I started working at Hollenbeck Middle School, I tried to build a rapport with each of my students. One student in particular, named Liz, seemed unenthused about my presence. She walked and spoke with her head down, but I continued trying to reach [...]
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By Kathy Sanchez, Berendo Middle School, Spring 2010 I was tutoring in my science class one day when one of my students walked in late and talked back to the teacher. Sandy was usually sweet and respectful, so I asked the teacher if I could speak to Sandy outside to figure out what was going [...]
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By Davonte “Teddy” Green, Gompers Middle School, Spring 2011 Michelle is a 13-year-old student in my sixth grade class. Along with being unable to focus and never turning in assignments, Michelle was constantly getting kicked out of class for being disruptive or using profanity, and outside of the classroom, she was also hanging out with [...]
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By Sean McDonough, John Liechty Middle School, Spring 2011 One of the students I have enjoyed working with started attending Liechty in the middle of October. Along with being at a new school and feeling disconnected from the other students in his class, Chris had difficulties staying organized and completing his work. By the end [...]
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By Hahn Chang, City Year Los Angeles Corps Member Jerry is one the coolest kids in our Starfish Corps after-school program. Every day, as I walk to the purple tables where students congregate for our program, I see Jerry’s bright smile. He comes towards me dragging his oversized suitcase (that serves as his backpack), and [...]
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