Service-learning is a proven civic education practice that extends learning into the community and builds a strong sense of agency among young people.

Student Voice Committees (SVCs) are designed to form crucial student-adult partnerships to help address the myriad of issues facing schools today. Through engaging students in the decision making process, SVCs seek to:

• improve school culture and climate, and
• develop individual youth’s civic leadership skills.

Civic Learning: Learn about the Participate civics course and curriculum, partner organizations, student events, and professional development in civic learning throughout the school.

The Department of Social Science works to support its students, teachers, schools, and communities by leading professional learning opportunities, providing guidance on curriculum development, and organizing instructional resources that will help enrich and broaden learning experiences in the classroom and beyond.

Financial Education is designed with the vision that all Chicago students will graduate with the knowledge, skills, and access to make informed personal financial decisions and to participate effectively in the economy. These skills will lead to a future of financial empowerment. All students will graduate ready to be competent decision makers, responsible and knowledgeable consumers, prudent savers and investors, empowered employees, employers, and entrepreneurs, and critical and thoughtful economic actors.

Calumet Is My Back Yard (CIMBY) engages high school students in place-based experiences that connect classroom learning to outdoor stewardship.