CUEE Programs

Wisdom, Work, Will: Advancing Educational Excellence

The Crim Center is more than an organization that only conducts research. We are a place in which a community of believers are able to come in order to support one another's educational needs and endeavors.

Each year, The Center delivers programming and support services to over +10,000 adults and children at a cost of around $100.00 per person/child per year. Through your partnerships, donations and support, we are proud to offer programs that benefit our school communities. Through volunteers, The Center offers over 38,000 volunteer hours to the community. Join us and become a part of our "Community of Believers." 

Discover Education 3.1 Volunteer Program

If you would like to volunteer in one of our below programs short term (10-20 hours), join our Discover Education 3.1 Program. You have the option of entering through one of three tracks: A) Engaging in early literacy and S.T.E.M. practices through one of our two AmeriCorps programs- TEAM/ Jumpstart; B) Gaining peaceful resolutions through a partnership with the Martin Luther King Center for Nonviolent Social Change; or C) Encouraging financial literacy through our partnership with Junior Achievement.

Complete your track by spending 4-8 hours in one of our partner schools.  

Follow any of our below programs!

   

*Permanent placements and benefits require full admission acceptance in a below program.

TEAM AmeriCorps Program

The Alonzo Crim Center and AmeriCorps “TEAM”ed up to develop comprehensive school day, after school, and summer programming for middle and high schools known as the TEAM (Technology, Environment, And Math) AmeriCorps Program . AmeriCorps members recruited for this program are mathematics and science majors/degrees and are trained in “Best Practices in Urban Education”, as well as effective tutoring and mentoring. Additionally, TEAM implements the DREAMS summer institute annually. Atlanta Metro area schools' students are invited to spend 4 to 8 weeks at Georgia State University where they participate in math, robotics, social competency, cultural awareness, and critical thinking and writing classes.  Schools and organizations have continued to express their need and appreciation for the TEAM AmeriCorps program. This year TEAM will ultimately serve over 30,200 hours of direct service with students in science, math, and/or college readiness. TEAM AmeriCorps has certainly come a long way in its 5 years of existence from its humble beginning of 5 Corps members and 2 partnering schools to 28 Corps members and 15 partnering schools and we are excited about what the future holds!

Please follow on:

Twitter @TEAMAmeriCorps and the Center's FB Page

Jumpstart! AmeriCorps Program

The current Jumpstart model pairs Jumpstart-trained college students, called Corps members, with young children in one-to-one partnerships that are uniquely designed to develop literacy, language, and social skills. During the 2012-2013 school year, Georgia State University engaged over 60 college students in one-to-one relationships with young children, and served over 180 preschool students in partnership with AmeriCorps volunteers. Each student completed 4 hours of Classroom Assistance Time (CAT) per week, as well as, 4 hours per week in Jumpstart sessions and in total 300 hours of volunteer work within the community.  According to the School Success Checklist, which measures language, literacy, initiative, and social skills, the young participants made great gains in school readiness skills in comparison to a group of preschool children who did not participate in the program.

For more information, please visit:

http://www.jstart.org

Early College High School Project

Atlanta Public Schools (APS) and Georgia State University (GSU) have partnered together in the development and implementation of the Early College High School (ECHS) project at the New Schools at Carver and Booker T. Washington.  Under the terms of this partnership, Georgia State University faculty from the Departments of Middle/Secondary and Instructional Technology, Business, Law, Arts and Sciences, Educational Policy Studies, Counseling and Psychological Services, and staff from the Office of Undergraduate Students have served as discipline/subject team leaders, scholars-in-residence, facilitators for professional development, co-teachers, and supplemental support service advisors in the Early College High School. The goal of the project is to support students in graduating with a high school diploma and 60 hours of college credit, making them eligible to enroll in a bachelor’s program at Georgia State University or any other university of their choice.  During outcome analyses, it was found that students engaged in this program has levels of high academic self-efficacy and exceeded the overall Atlanta-Public Schools attendance rate, reflecting a higher level of academic achievement.

The Good Neighbor Program

For more information, please visit:

http://www.atlantahousing.org

Urban Education Freshman Learning Community

Freshman Learning Communities (FLC) offers first-year students the opportunity to connect with Georgia State University and each other during the fall semester. The program, which began in 1999, has been nationally recognize for its impact on student success.

FLCs link clusters of courses, usually four or five, from the Core Curriculum with the GSU 1010 New Student Orientation course. Each FLC is built on an academic theme. The Crim Center is proud to offer the Urban Education FLC.

Fall 2012 Urban Education FLC CRN: 84126

Beyond the Bricks

Designed by Beyond the Bricks Project Inc, BTBP is a media and international community engagement initiative to encourage and promote community based solutions to increase educational and social outcomes for school age Black males. The BTBP takes a grassroots approach to improving those outcomes by engaging community members including the young men themselves, educators, civic leaders, and other stakeholders to craft solutions to the challenges the young men face in their schools, neighborhoods, and cities. Importantly, we encourage the young men to examine their roles as leaders and community citizens.

Check out our BTBP blog here:

http://www.beyondthebricksproject.com/city/atlanta

DREAMS

The Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence in the College of Education at Georgia State University sponsored a Summer Leadership/Mentorship Institute entitled DREAMS: Developing Relationships to Enhance All Mentee Success. The program has a male component: Jegna and female component: Anase- Aya. We focus on Math, Science, Kinesthetic, Financial Literacy and Social Competency.

This year, we have partnered with the Atlanta Police Department Athletic League (PAL) to deliver a powerful program at no cost to students. Limited Space.

JEGNA Brotherhood - Summer Mentoring Institute

This institute was designed to engage male high school students in activities that develop social competency, increase self-understanding and positive images in high school students. The institute seeks to increase the likelihood of the participants’ future engagement of other students in positive, healthy mentoring relationships.  Strivings toward these aspirations took the form of encouraging and scaffolding the students’ team-building, leadership, mentoring, identity development, and etiquette/social skills.  34 students from three Atlanta urban schools, The Early College at the New Schools at Carver, Daniel M. Therrell High School, and Tri-Cities High School, participated in this program.  The Center, through the Deans Office, also received a systemic partnership grant to assess program outcomes for DREAMS participants, identify programmatic processes, and to assess program sustainability.  After participation in the JEGNA program, the students perceived themselves to be more academically self-efficacious, reflecting an increase in their perceived ability to handle different aspects of their educational pursuits, and they also scored higher on the SAT and other standardized tests in comparison to other male students in the Atlanta-Public School System.  Still in its pilot stage, the plan is to make the Leadership/Mentoring Academy an annual event and to publish its influences on academic efficacy, academic achievement, and peer mentoring in academic journals.

Ananse-Aya Sisterhood- Summer Mentoring Institute

The Alonzo A. Crim Center for Urban Educational Excellence sponsored the Ananse-Aya Sisterhood, a program that seeks to prepare young women to become leaders in their schools, communities, and larger society.  To help achieve this goal, five college students from Georgia State University mentored 20 African-American female adolescents and engaged them in group activities that intended to build effective leadership skills, enhance their positive coping strategies, expand their knowledge of educational and economic opportunities, and provide a positive environment for their identity development.  This intervention program extends beyond the DREAMS summer institute into the school year with monthly group meetings and activities for the young women.  Future plans for this project includes research aimed at investigating the effects that the sisterhood has on young girls’ resiliency, academic expectations, academic achievement, self-esteem, and cultural heritage awareness, in which pre-post data is currently being collected.