City Year and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University Partnership

Compass Academy is supported by City Year - AmeriCorps and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University. These two national non-profit education organizations hold a combined experience of 50 years in helping students succeed and currently partner with 314 public schools across the country.

PARTNERS

CITY YEAR Denver

City Year helps students and schools succeed. Fueled by national service, City Year partners with more than 300 public schools in 29 urban, high-need communities across the U.S. Diverse teams of City Year AmeriCorps members provide research-based student, classroom and school-wide supports to help students stay in school and on track to graduate from high school, ready for college and career success. A 2015 study shows that schools that partner with City Year were up to two-to-three times more likely to improve on math and English assessments. A proud member of the AmeriCorps national service network, City Year is supported by the Corporation for National and Community Service, local school districts and private philanthropy from corporations, foundations and individuals. City Year launched in Denver in 2011 and serves approximately 4,000 students in Denver Public Schools each year. 

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City Year's School Design Division

Following a core belief that policy and practice must follow evidence, City Year and the Everyone Graduates Center (EGC) at Johns Hopkins University established the School Design Division in 2015 to design and facilitate the launch of Compass Academy. Since Compass' launch, the School Design Division has continued to partner with local public education experts to design and develop a learning model which strengthens students’ academic and social-emotional competencies, leads to greater personalization and is replicable to schools across the country including City Year's 300+ partner schools. We're proud that to date our work at Compass Academy has led to: 

  1. The launch of City Year's Teaching Fellowship operating in Denver, Boston, and Milwaukee (and growing).

  2. A district wide partnership with Tulsa Public Schools to rethink student advisory for all 6-12th graders

  3. A training series on providing data informed supports for individual student needs being offered across City Year sites

  4. An emerging framework for holistic school priority setting and tracking for our network of partner schools