Service Learning
Academic Service Learning is much more than volunteering. Students provide service for a cause or situation they care about - causes that deal with specific human, animal, environmental, civic, and/or social issues. Our students simultaneously learn in project-based internship experiences with action research, reflection and developed results.
City Academy graduates have provided over 170 organizations in the community with 25,000+ hours of service from our students.
Senior Capstone service learning internship projects
Every senior is required to do 40 hours of service. Students are encouraged to find something they want to see improved. and then partner with community organization to solve that problem.
An authentic opportunity for students to merge their academic and career passions and intentions with their service and life passions and intentions. A vehicle for students to demonstrate autonomy, rigor, aspiration, and active citizenship, as well as effective and considered thinking, communication, and other academic skills.
Academic Service Learning is a Win-Win-Win situation!
Students do focused learning while immersed in personally meaningful work. An organization or recipient benefits from student service, and additionally the internship placement provides an opportunity for students to develop on-the-job skills and to learn more about careers and/or hobbies for their future.