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| About Us |
About Us Since 1995 Citizen Schools has built a creative and effective learning model that addresses community needs while building student skills through hands-on experiential learning activities. Citizen Schools operates a National Network of apprenticeship programs for youth that connects middle school students with adult volunteers in hands-on learning. The campus sites nationwide are located in California, Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Texas. At Citizen Schools, students develop the academic and leadership skills they need to do well in school, get into college, and become leaders in their careers and in their communities. Our goal is to prepare students for leadership roles in the 21st century. To achieve this goal, Citizen Schools has identified four important objectives for students' success:
Our learning model includes Apprenticeships, Explorations, AIM (Homework help), and Team-building activities. Citizen Schools focuses on skill development such as oral communication and links closely to school activities and learning standards.
Why Citizen Schools? Citizen Schools has a dramatically more optimistic point of view - based on the exciting results of our unique "apprenticeship" approach that allows kids to learn by doing, and by teaching others, too. Research shows that kids (and adults) learn faster and more deeply from "real-life" experiences that challenge them to be active learners. That's why Citizen Schools students don't just learn how to protect environment spaces - they actually build a camp site that is environmentally friendly. And they don't just take pictures - they create a photo story that expresses their innermost thoughts and feelings. The result is a kind of confidence, self-discipline, and mastery that many children don't find anywhere else. Citizen Schools helps strengthen the community by building strong links between parents and schools, between neighborhoods and institutions, and between kids and adults. What's more,
Citizen Schools turns children into community heroes by teaching them the
necessary skills to become leaders in the 21st century.
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