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School Spirit at the Dearborn
By Epiphany Acevedo, corps member serving at the Dearborn Middle School Originally a girls’ finishing school established in 1912, the Dearborn Middle School in Roxbury has been around for a long time....
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Uniting Cultures: “PASOS” Steps Up School Pride at Dever-McCormack Upper
Until recently, Dever Elementary and McCormack Middle had always been divided entities, despite the bridge conjoining them. They were two seperate worlds, with different academic environments,...
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“City of FOOD”– A Lesson Plan That Resonates With Fourth Grade Students
As part of our service in schools, City Year AmeriCorps members create lesson plans to guide before or after-school enrichment activities. We strive to make our activities as entertaining and...
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Building a Family at the Irving Middle School
Written by Gabriel Solis, City Year AmeriCorps member serving on the Deloitte Team at the Washington Irving Middle School. As a corps member serving at a first-year partnership on the Deloitte Team at...
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Wordless Wednesday: City Year Cafe
Photos and article by Jillian Martin Jillian Martin is a 2012-2013 corps member on MFS Investment Management team serving at the Dever-McCormack Upper School in Dorchester. At most of City Year...
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Magical Erasers
By Cam Dung Le Cam Dung Le is a 2012-2013 corps member serving on the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care team at the Holland Elementary School in Dorchester. Clasping a chunky eraser in his tiny fingers, he...
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Enrichment at the Irving
By Jordan Shafer Jordan Shafer is a 2012-2013 corps member serving on the Deloitte team at the Washington Irving Middle School in Roslindale. During the first week of Basic Training Academy, I learned...
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Poetry: Here We Are
By Xia Rondeau Xia Rondeau is a 2012-2013 corps member serving on the MFS Investment Management team at the Dever-McCormack Lower School in Dorchester. It’s the, “I’m bored.” “I’m not going to do...
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Wordless Wednesday: Collaboration
By Anna Falby Anna Falby is a 2012-2013 corps member serving on the DePuy Synthes Companies of Johnson & Johnson team at the Orchard Gardens K-8 Pilot School in Roxbury. At the end of January,...
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Serve With an Open Mind: Social-Emotional Learning
By Valerie J. Colon As corps members we pledge “to serve with an open heart and an open mind.” With social and emotional learning, we literally lived this statement every day. One of the first training...
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I’m New Here
By Denys Godwin Photo by Elliot Haney The first thing that she ever said to me, on her first day of school after a long summer, was, “I’m new here.” It may have been the very first thing she’d said to...
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Wordless Wednesday: Extended Day
Photos by Hannah Smith About the photographer: Hannah Smith is a 2013-2014 corps member serving at the Condon Elementary School in Boston. These pictures were taken on the first day of their extended...
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Paving Pathways to Future Careers
By Laura Stapler Photo by Matthew Hine | source: flickr “Doctor or nurse” Mia* writes on my clipboard during lunchtime, her mouth too full to answer verbally what she wants to be when she grows up. Mia...
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Creating Safe Learning Spaces
By Joanne Jan Elliot Haney | 2013 After supporting enrichment for the first marking period, our team began to run our own enrichment on social justice curriculum for the second marking period. We split...
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Change Is Good
By Cat Nwachukwu, corps member serving on the CSX team Photo by Elliot Haney | 2013 I met Cristan* in my first days at The English High School. I noticed him right away because he was very quiet, but...
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Where Marshmallows Meet Sportsmanship
By Hannah Smith, corps member Photo by John Morgan (source: flickr) The cafeteria at Condon Elementary is unusually silent. All the tables have been moved aside to create an open space, and line up...
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