A r c h i v e d  I n f o r m a t i o n

Audience Validated by N.Y.S. and approved by NDN (U.S.D.E) for at-risk and gifted/talented adolescents in grades 9 through 12.

Description Features of City-As-School (CAS):

• A high school program which links students with hundreds of learning experiences throughout the community.
  
• Students spend up to 30-40 hours per week in learning experiences utilizing community resources of business, civic, cultural, social or political nature.
  
• Academic credit is granted for each learning experience successfully completed.
  
• Structured, student-centered Learning Experience Activity Packet (LEAP helps to identify and evaluate discrete areas of instruction in each resource.
  
• Students attend resources for one cycle (9 weeks) or two cycles and receive credit or no credit rather than letter or numerical grades.
  
• Specialized, small classes support activities at community resources.
  
• Weekly seminar groups serve as forum for discussions of guidance, academic and social issues.
  
• May be a stand-alone school, or a program within a school.

Evidence of Effectiveness

• Improvement in attendance;
  
• Increase in course completion rate of students;
  
• Better attitude toward schooling, career, and adults; and
  
• Evidence derived from school records, pre- and posttest comparison of a control group and use of likert-scaled instruments.

Requirements Three days of inservice training sessions in curriculum development and initial and ongoing program implementation is provided by CAS trainers at participating site or CAS in New York.

Costs Follow-up consultations are provided free of charge as an integral part of program implementation. Program evaluation services are also available in the form of a multifaceted, guided self-evaluation which can be administered at the adopting or home site. The all inclusive fee is $3,000-$3,500 (travel, lodging, trainer, materials), depending on the number trained, up to ten people.

Services All forms used to develop resources, publicity reports, pamphlets, catalogs, recruitment posters, evaluation instruments, and administrative materials included.

Contact

William Weinstein, City-As-School, 16 Clarkson Street, New York, NY 10014. (212) 645-6121, (212) 691-7801, or FAX (212) 675-2858. E-Mail: bill.weinstein@nycenet.nycps.edu

Developmental Funding: USOE ESEA Title IV-C and NYC Board of Education.
JDRP No. 82-13 (6/10/82)
Recertified (3/11/93)

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