Metro-area high school students exist in rapidly evolving social and academic contexts. With so many high school students actively engaged with social issues — in both their communities and their schools — pathways for productive social engagement strategies are essential. Colorado Change Agents engages metro-area high school students with self-selected, project-based learning strategies that will positively impact school-level and community policies and operations for students, their colleagues, their families, and the greater community. During their fifteen week program, students earn a stipend while they develop professional experience with social impact experts and organizations that leads to professional and academic postsecondary opportunities.
We connect agents with resources
Metro-area high schools often struggle to secure the resources needed to execute substantial student and community engagement strategies. Although many schools offer students and their families some opportunities for school-level engagement (parent-teacher organizations, parent coffees, after school social events, etc.), schools often lack a process for involving students with school-level policy and operational impact. Further, schools often lack the agility to engage transitional students and their families, and to cultivate and support authentic community empowerment strategies.
We facilitate strategic action that promotes futures
After students identify a school-level or community policy issue, Colorado Change Agents facilitates the project planning and final deliverables required to present policy recommendations and implementation strategies to school-level and community cohorts. Students engage with a curriculum scope and sequence that requires identifying a school-level or community issue, performing a root cause analysis, developing a project plan and implementation or deliverables strategy, and reporting out on outcomes to community and school-level cohorts. This framework assists students with more than identifying and communicating a gap in community or school-level policies and operations by promoting an actionable strategy for closing identified gaps.
Our Organization’s Mission
We support agents for change
Metro-area high school students exist in rapidly evolving social and academic contexts. With so many high school students actively engaged with social issues — in both their communities and their schools — pathways for productive social engagement strategies are essential. Colorado Change Agents engages metro-area high school students with self-selected, project-based learning strategies that will positively impact school-level and community policies and operations for students, their colleagues, their families, and the greater community. During their fifteen week program, students earn a stipend while they develop professional experience with social impact experts and organizations that leads to professional and academic postsecondary opportunities.
We connect agents with resources
Metro-area high schools often struggle to secure the resources needed to execute substantial student and community engagement strategies. Although many schools offer students and their families some opportunities for school-level engagement (parent-teacher organizations, parent coffees, after school social events, etc.), schools often lack a process for involving students with school-level policy and operational impact. Further, schools often lack the agility to engage transitional students and their families, and to cultivate and support authentic community empowerment strategies.
We facilitate strategic action that promotes futures
After students identify a school-level or community policy issue, Colorado Change Agents facilitates the project planning and final deliverables required to present policy recommendations and implementation strategies to school-level and community cohorts. Students engage with a curriculum scope and sequence that requires identifying a school-level or community issue, performing a root cause analysis, developing a project plan and implementation or deliverables strategy, and reporting out on outcomes to community and school-level cohorts. This framework assists students with more than identifying and communicating a gap in community or school-level policies and operations by promoting an actionable strategy for closing identified gaps.