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Spring BreakService

During the Columbus City Schools Spring Beak, City Year remained hard at work serving the community. City Year partnered with the Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Ohio for the week. Corps Members supported two Boys and Girls Club sites, the Westside center and the Milo-Gorgan Center. During the week City Year supportted the daily activities of thecenters and provided our own programming as well.

Along with City Year’s partnership with the Boys and Girls Club, The Corps worked with WWeinland Park Elementary, a school we serve daily, to build the set for the schools upcomingspring play, Annie. The set consists of New York City buildings, beds, orphan walls, a stage, a curtain and a two-story 3-D replica of a building created with milk crates. The majority of the set was created using milk crates, foam insulation boards, ply-wood, two-by-fours paint, and lots of creativity. The play will take place at the end of May.

City Year would like to thank The Boys and Girls Club and Weinland park for allowing us to takepart in some powerful spring break service!

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I was just a wee lad going through the rigors of last year’s BTA when Erin and Phil (mere names to you, but wonderful, intelligent, committed service-people to me) rolled out “The Dean’s Council.” The Council, they said, was an opportunity for Senior Corps to talk to other Senior Corps across the network about whatever. It was a chance to both forge connections with other sites and share best practices. It was a way to have conversations that might not otherwise be had… Conversations facilitated by the one and only Dean of City facilitated by the one and only Dean of City Year, Mr. Charlie Rose.

At that point in my City Year career, I had heard a few things about Charlie, but I didn’t really know who he was, or why everyone seemed to have this huge thing for him. “What makes this cat so special?” I wondered. I’ve since found out. Charlie Rose is a very, very, very cool man— effortlessly charismatic, overflowing with love, and wholly serious when it comes to serving our kids. To me, he is the archetype of an effective leader— someone who can motivate you as part of a cause, but also validate you as a human being. He’s a personal hero of mine, and I’ve counted every interaction with him human being. He’s a personal hero of mine, and I’ve counted every interaction with him as a pretty solid moment in my life.

Needless to say, when I was asked to fill in on Dean’s Council this year, I was fine with the situation. But the Dean’s Council ain’t just me and Charlie chatting— it’s also Senior Corps from everywhere in City Year America: our good pals in Cleveland, our supporting Columb in Columbia, Charlie’s hometown crowd in Boston, etc. Lots of folks are on these calls. As you can probably imagine, things occasionally get chaotic— one person will be sharing a ripple JUST as someone else checks in a little late AND one person will be sharing a ripple JUST as someone else checks in a little late AND three people don’t have their phones on mute— but once the Council gets going, the ideas get a-flowing.

The agenda changes from call to call. Sometimes we talk about training ideas, sometimes we support one specific site’s initiative, sometimes we talk about news out of HQ, etc. What has remained constant throughout the year is the spirit of collaboration that drives all successful City Year endeavors. This organization is nothing without its “team” mentality— the attitude of togetherness that informs our site-to-site interactions “team” mentality— the attitude of togetherness that informs our site-to-site interactions as well as our daily, in school doings. It’s an attitude that our Dean— who organizes and learns from these calls— lives by, and one that I hope to live by too so long as I’m around other human beings.

City Year Beh

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By: Jack Wolfe

Deans Council

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