Students Write: “Dear YouthBuild…”
This year, students in Ms. Willa’s Language Arts class spent the academic year working on ethnography projects that studied a place of their choosing. Ethnography, students learned, is a form of social research that observes and analyzes the everyday patterns and practices of a group. This particular assignment – which Ms. Willa called “Sense of Place, [...]
May Volunteer of the Month: Alexandra Brown
Alexandra Brown Is the May 2014 YouthBuild Philly Volunteer of the Month! Alexandra is studying Anthropology and Human Biology at Temple University, and has been volunteering at YouthBuild Philly since January. All of us at YouthBuild thank her for the hours of tutoring and valuable service she’s provided at our school this year! Below, Alexandra reflects on her time at [...]
Photos: Thaddeus Stevens College 2014 Commencement
Did you know that YouthBuild Philly has not one but two Classes of 2014? We're not referring to the early diploma ceremony for Jerome and Aaron last month - and not to our tradition of holding two graduation ceremonies in August and November - but rather to the many YouthBuild alumni graduating from college this year. With [...]
Celebrating a Year with Starbucks
In the summer of 2013, YouthBuild Philadelphia Charter School was awarded a Youth Leadership Grant from the Starbucks Foundation to support our Leadership Development programming. Over the past year, YouthBuild Philly and Starbucks have expanded on this partnership on the ground in Philadelphia, leading to new opportunities for students and Starbucks partners alike. Read on to [...]
For two students, an early graduation
In Simran Sidhu's TEDxPhiladelphia talk about YouthBuild Philly's core strategies, she emphasized the importance of putting individual students and their needs at the center of our program design. What this means, sometimes, is being willing to abandon or adjust existing program constraints if they don't help students achieve success. Last Friday's community meeting offered a great [...]
An Extra Shot of Good: Starbucks Volunteers Assist at YouthBuild Worksite
April 2014 marks Starbucks' fourth annual Global Month of Service, in which Starbucks employees organize and participate in service projects serving their local community. We were thrilled when our friends from the Region 13 Starbucks stores decided to collaborate with YouthBuild Philly on a service project this year, and arranged for participating partners to work side by side with students [...]
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