Citizen Schools
Cause Area
- Children & Youth
- Community
- Education & Literacy
Location
10502 Briar Forest DriveRm 126Houston, TX 77042 United StatesOrganization Information
Mission Statement
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: strengthen academic skills, develop personal leadership skills, facilitate access to resources, and build community connections.
Description
Our learning model includes Apprenticeships, Explorations, Homework Investment Time, and Team-building activities. Citizen Schools focuses on skill development - particularly in the areas of writing, data analysis, and oral communication - and links closely to school activities and learning standards. Citizen Schools turns children into community heroes: children apprentice with lawyers, web designers, architects - culminating their learning apprenticeships by arguing trials before federal judges, designing web sites for their school, organizing public events, publishing newspapers, and much more.
We envision a day when most of the nation's 88,000 schools reopen after school, on weekends, and in the summer for experiential learning opportunities that powerfully link children and schools to the larger community.