CORO
Coro New York

Program Structure

 

Overview

Exploring Leadership has three main components. First the Youth Ambassadors spend the summer learning and practicing key Coro methodologies alongside an intense and experiential study of the New York public school system, including a professional internship. Then, when they return to their individual school communities in the fall the Youth Ambassadors use their training to identify an issue to address as a group. Finally, using effective inquiry and ingenuity they develop and implement a Community Action Project (CAP) to effect positive change.

What's Up Now?

The CAPs are off!

The Youth Ambassadors have begun their initial work in developing their Community Action Projects (CAPs) and want to keep you updated on their progress.



Bushwick School for Social Justice
Issue: School Funding

This project aims to ensure that Bushwick School for Social Justice has the material and technological resources needed to create best the learning experience possible.  The plan is two-fold. First the Youth Ambassadors will facilitate student/teacher round-table discussions to determine and prioritized needs -providing a forum where teachers and students can collaborate towards getting the resources they both want and need.  Second, veteran teachers at BSSJ will assist the Youth Ambassadors in running a Donors Choose (a publicly accessible grant resource) tutorial for the teachers at BSSJ.  These workshops are designed to equip teachers with the knowledge, training, resources, and most importantly the support, needed to quickly submit grant proposals to Donor’s Choose for the resources the school currently needs.


Paper Chasin’ Week: Chasin’ That Paper for a Better Education, April 12-22
High School for Public Service
Issue: Nutrition

The major goal of the HSPS youth ambassadors is to improve their peers’ eating habits. They will be running a three-day awareness-raising campaign called Sugar Week for their school community. The activities culminate in a multi-perspective panel discussion with leading NYC experts; a student perspectives session will follow the expert panel discussion as a vehicle to dialogue between experts and those the expertise affects.


Sugar Week Dates: April 12 - 14

School for Democracy and Leadership
Issue: School Accountability


In an effort to improve school environment the youth ambassadors are creating a student / teacher lounge in order to give their community a place to communicate, collaborate, and chill out together. They commissioned a design proposal from a Coro friend and interior designer, Patrick Lupinski and are currently raising resources to make this space – to be called The Grid - a reality. On the ribbon-cutting day, the youth ambassadors will facilitate a mini issue day on common miscommunication errors and offer the ladder of inference as a tool for better understanding.  If you would like to contribute items and/or dollars to help this project please email Program Director, Kate Bredrup at kbredrup@coronewyork.org. See the design proposal HERE.


Renovation Dates: March 19 – 22

The Grid Ribbon Cutting: Friday, March 23



 



Gotham Professional Arts Academy
Issue: School Safety

In an effort to help create the safest learning community possible, where students resolve conflicts with each other and with their teachers in a mature and productive way, the Gotham Academy Youth Ambassadors will host a Safety Awareness Week.  The project will consist of two components.  A series of 4 Conflict resolution workshops, facilitated by the Youth Ambassadors and focusing on “the art of de-escalating conflict”, where students will learn how to de-escalate arguments and keep them from becoming violent; and a School-Wide (full group) Safety Tip Seminar, that the Youth Ambassadors will facilitate in conjunction with The NYPD Office Of School safety’s Community Outreach Division.  The latter has a dual purpose.  The first is to disseminate important safety tips and encourage “school-wide partnership” in maintaining a safe and violence-free environment.  The second is to provide a forum where students can talk with NYPD officers and get clarification on the roles both of School Safety Agents (SSA) and Police Officers are supposed to play in keeping students safe, inside and around their school.


Safety Awareness Week: April, 19-23







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