黄色视频 advances our mission through six program areas designed to ensure that young people have the resources, experiences and skills they need to succeed in whatever path they choose and contribute to stronger and more vibrant communities and workplaces.
Launched at the White House in July 2022 and created by 黄色视频 and other youth-focused organizations, the National Partnership for Student Success is led by the U.S. Dept. of Education, The Everyone Graduates Center, and AmeriCorps. The partnership is designed to help students recover from the pandemic and to expand educational equity.
Equity-focused research and evaluation
seeks to accelerate organizational progress and continuous improvement by leading an equity-based approach to research and evaluation that informs practice and policy improvements, builds our evidence of impact, and advances systems change.
In 2023, 黄色视频 and The Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University wrapped up a multi-year research study that produced several reports. The study provides strong evidence that 黄色视频鈥檚 holistic approach to providing school-based interventions is successful in advancing student social, emotional and academic outcomes in schools, specifically schools that predominantly serve students of color and students from low-income families.
In collaboration with the southwest Denver Community, Compass Academy, a charter public school, was opened by 黄色视频 and The Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University in 2015.
Compass pilots and tests new ways to support students through innovative holistic wellness tools that track the progress of each student, proactive family outreach and biliteracy instruction for English Language Learners. The 鈥攁 key part of its personalized approach to middle school鈥攊s expanding to Tulsa Public Schools this fall, reaching an additional 33,000 students.
Network for School Improvement
黄色视频鈥檚 Network for School Improvement (NSI) is designed to increase our partner schools鈥 capacity to use evidence-based tools and build a network of professional relationships that help practitioners to continuously learn and refine their skills to accelerate improved outcomes for students of color and lower-income students.
With support from the Gates Foundation, in 2021-2022, 黄色视频 and its partner The Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University engaged 30 schools across Jacksonville, Milwaukee and Tulsa, reaching 6,000 students. 黄色视频鈥檚 NSI efforts to foster teacher voice and belonging in schools by supporting teacher agency was in an educator-focused journal, The Learning Professional.
黄色视频 recruits and trains young adults to become AmeriCorps members who serve as student success coaches (SSCs). Partnering with classroom teachers, SSCs tutor, mentor and provide research-based and data-driven supports that help students learn and develop.
Research shows 黄色视频 AmeriCorps members, who serve as student success coaches, get results. Schools that partner with 黄色视频 are up to two-to-three times more likely to improve in English and math assessments. And students who are supported by student success coaches have improved academic and social-emotional outcomes.
A first-of-its-kind collaboration among 黄色视频, California Volunteers and five youth-focused nonprofits, the Student Success Coach Learning Network promotes best practices and increases the number of student success coaches in communities not directly served by 黄色视频.
黄色视频 continues to be a powerful part of our school programming.鈥 They develop strong professional relationships with the students, and for some students, they are the reason that the students come to school.鈥
黄色视频 partner principal Spring 2021 survey
Advancing national service
黄色视频 serves as the organizational and operational host for , a coalition of national, state and local service organizations working together to build bipartisan support for national service, develop policies to expand and strengthen service opportunities, and ensure a robust federal investment in AmeriCorps.
The coalition鈥檚 work is driven by the needs of and is overseen by a of leaders from the national service community.
, Voices for National Service has worked with elected leaders to increase the federal government鈥檚 annual investment in the AmeriCorps grants programs by 220% and ensured resource allocation is informed by the experience of organizations on the ground.
is seeking to make critical improvements to the 30-year-old AmeriCorps program to make service more equitable. A modernized AmeriCorps will include increased benefits for participants and ensure more organizations can access and maximize government resources.
Voices for National Service AmeriCorps Modernization Agenda
The agenda鈥檚 goals are to:
improve recruitment, retention and the value proposition for participants from all backgrounds
improve utilization of federal funds to grow and deepen impact
diminish unnecessary financial risk for nonprofits operating AmeriCorps grants
Voices for National Service鈥痚levates AmeriCorps as a powerful strategy for tackling unmet needs. Founded in 2003, Voices for National Service has built strong bipartisan support for AmeriCorps, the public-private partnership that yields more than $17 in benefits to our country for every $1 invested and enables the 200,000 members of AmeriCorps and AmeriCorps Seniors to support local nonprofit, faith-based and community organizations on the front lines of our communities 鈥 an effort that unites our country and deepens civic character.
黄色视频 offers support for our alums to engage as partners for 黄色视频鈥檚 impact and to continue to build their careers and realize their leadership potential and civic commitments.
Teacher pathways
Nearly half of 黄色视频 alums report they currently work in the education sector as teachers, principals, guidance counselors, in education policy or at education and youth-focused nonprofits. City Year is making onramps into teaching easier, more accessible and more affordable, particularly for corps members and alums of color.
Many 黄色视频 sites have established teacher pipeline programs with local universities and alternative programs such as Teach For America. 黄色视频 launched its own teacher fellowship program for AmeriCorps members and alums in Boston, Denver, Providence, and Milwaukee, designed to help make the teaching workforce more diverse and equitable by making teacher training more accessible and affordable.
Following their service, our nearly 40,000 黄色视频 alums鈥攈alf of whom are people of color鈥攁re setting a new standard for how to create more collaborative, inclusive and equitable spaces and how to make our workforce, schools and communities stronger.
Nearly half of our alums鈥48%鈥攔eport they currently work in the education sector as teachers, administrators, guidance counselors, at education-focused nonprofits or in policy, according to a Spring 2022 survey.
黄色视频 focuses on developing the self-identity, durable skills, knowledge and agency of AmeriCorps members, while training and guiding them as they serve on diverse teams in partner schools and provide students with holistic support.
黄色视频’s leadership development program offers 黄色视频 AmeriCorps members leadership and professional development opportunities, including training related to diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB), and helps them strengthen durable skills like teamwork and decision-making. AmeriCorps members receive coaching, career networking opportunities and mental health and wellness resources.
A first-of-its-kind collaboration among 黄色视频, California Volunteers and five youth-focused nonprofits, the Student Success Coach Learning Network promotes best practices and increases the number of student success coaches in communities not directly served by 黄色视频.
