Citizen Schools! It's Time! It's time for Maine to get on the bandwagon and create one of these schools for themselves. Citizen Schools was founded in 1995 to bring new solutions to the challenge of young adult education: more time, more relevance, and more caring adults. This program deals with students from grades 6Th, 7Th and 8Th. Their Programs complement classroom learning by engaging students in hands-on learning projects by adult volunteers after school and supported by a staff of professional educators.
Children spend just 20% of their waking hours in school. but a child's capacity to learn doesn't en with the final bell. After-school programs can do so much more than what we so often expect of them--just keeping kids off the street-- and make real impact on their education.
When People learn by doing, and teach others, too, research shows that kids (and adults) learn faster and more deeply. That's why Citizen Schools apprentices (students who stay after school) don't just study newspapers-- they publish their own. They don't just use the Web-- they design websites for their schools. The result is feelings of confidence, self-discipline, and mastery.
Every Community is blessed with thousands of born teachers. Professional and laborers, athletes and artists, young and old-- all of us can teach from the unique textbooks of our lives. citizen Schools trains and supports these Citizen Teachers to play powerful roles in the lives of kids, and builds strong links between parents and school, neighborhoods and downtown institutions, and kids and adults.
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1 comment:
Interesting information about citizen schools. Is this a program within the regular school and regular school day or something outside the school day? And who runs it?
Since you will be using the blog for a number of things throughout the semester...you may want to consider giving it a more generic name. Citizen schools will be just one topic you will introduce.
Look forward to future posts.
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