This document summarizes a program called "Restoring the Urban Youth" that aims to instill a sense of urgency in students to get an education and help their community. The program keeps students in the same cohort for all four years of high school and teaches classes like college courses, using class discussion, group projects, technology, and high standards. It teaches students to "rise and resist" through community-focused projects using critical thinking skills. The program has found success in both student and faculty retention. A charter school using this program's approach is being built in Oakland and is set to open in 2015.

1. Restoring the Urban Youth

3.  Has found a connection between coaching and success
in teaching
 Stays in a cohort of 24 students for all four years of
high school
 Teaches each class as though it were a college course
 Class discussion
 Group projects
 Use of technology
 High standards

4. The program’s mission is
to instill a sense of
urgency in students to
become educated and
come back to their
community to help end
the cycle of poverty.
Students are taught about
how to “rise and resist”
through group projects
about their communities
using critical thinking
and complex literacy skills
with technology.
Quote from out-of-school article
He gives assignments that
tie the out-of-school world
with the inside to give
meaningful learning.
“It is powerful because it represents
the expansive and wonderful abilities
of urban students to contribute to
the dialogue about social justice in
ways that no standardized test could
purport to measure.”

6. Currently a charter
school is being built in
east Oakland and is set to
open in Fall 2015.
Not only student retention, but
faculty retention as well.

7. Andrade, Jeff. "Urban youth and the counter-narration of inequality."
Transforming Anthropology 15.1 (2007): 26-37. Print.