Citizen Schools is a leading national education initiative that uniquely mobilizes thousands of adult volunteers to help improve student achievement by teaching skill-building apprenticeships after-school. Our programs blend these real-world learning projects with rigorous academic and leadership development activities, preparing students in the middle grades for success in high school, college, the workforce, and civic life.

Apprenticeships at Citizen Schools give adults the opportunity to take what they do best in their professional careers or personal pursuits and use it to help middle-school students move to a long-term trajectory of success. If you love something, or know something, then you have what we are looking for, and what our youth desperately need. Volunteering with Citizen Schools doesn't require any teaching experience! Dedication and enthusiasm are the most important qualities in a successful Citizen Teacher.

All Citizen Schools volunteers receive intensive training and are supported by a full-time, professional campus Team Leader who assists in apprenticeship development and classroom behavior management, and provides coaching throughout the apprenticeship.

WHO: Any individual or group with skills to share with middle school students

WHAT: Teach your profession or hobby in after-school apprenticeships.

WHEN: Volunteers teach weekly 90-minute learning projects (from 4:15 to 5:45) for 11 afternoons. Our Fall semester starts in mid- August and ends in mid-December.

 

WHERE: Citizen Schools operates its program in Charlotte, NC at two campuses: Martin Luther King Jr. Middle School and Eastway Middle School; in Durham, NC at Lowes Grove Middle School and Neal Middle school; and in Henderson, NC at Henderson Middle School.

 

HOW: VISIT http://www.citizenschools.org/volunteer or contact Director of Civic Engagement, Cassie McIntyre, by phone at 704.332.3645 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting            704.332.3645      end_of_the_skype_highlighting or by email at [email protected]