CLA Staff to Explore Chile
Three Citizens Leadership Academy staff members have been granted an exciting opportunity to visit Chile. The grant, provided by our partners at Expeditionary Learning, allows participating EL teachers to travel abroad and gain valuable educational experience to share in their classrooms. Please follow the progress of their trip at CLA Travels to Chile.
Students Explore Veteran's Experiences – Update
At CLA’s 5/17/13 Friday celebration, 7th grade students shared the final piece of their Veteran’s book project with our participating veterans. To enjoy the Plain Dealer article detailing the experience, click here. For a PDF version of this story, please email Citizens Leadership Academy at clainfo@citizensleadership.org.
The Plain Dealer Highlighting A CLA Partner
CLA’s long relationship with Young Audiences has provided a chance for artists to showcase their skills and develop student creativity in dance, drumming, comic book drawing and manyother fields. View The Plain Dealer’s article here, YA celebrates 60 years, outlining Young Audience’s presence at Citizens Leadership Academy
What a Day of Service Looks Like at CLA
Dear CLA Family, As you may know, Citizens Leadership Academy honored Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. this past Monday with a day full of meaningful service. This year CLA partnered with various organizations including Hands-On Northeast Ohio, City Year Cleveland, The Cleveland Indians, The Cleveland Cavaliers, Radio One Cleveland, The Lonnie Burten Recreational Center,…
Expedition to India
CLA’s Marten Frazier is traveling to India this summer and recording his travels on his blog: Expeditionary India Stay up to date with Mr. Frazier’s travels and findings for the next few weeks and discover India with him!
Semester 2 Celebration of Learning Video
Citizens Leadership Academy is proud to present our 2012 Celebration of Learning Video. This video presents the culmination of our inaugural expedition and essential question, “What makes a community thrive?” Please enjoy the video below:
CLA 2011 Celebration of Learning Video!!!
The 2011 CLA Celebration of Learning is a presentation of our portfolio of learning during our first semester. As an Expeditionary Learning School, Citizens Leadership Academy focuses on long-term projects culminating in high quality products for an authentic audience. Watch our ‘Community Thrive’ by clicking the picture to the left (or on our Welcome Page)!
CLA Students Create "Lock In" Field Trip — At CLA!
“We have to admit, one of the best days we have ever had at school was our LOCK-IN at CLA! Our day started with classes as usual, but then our school transformed. It wasn’t just a day of learning, we had fun! We turned our classrooms into PS3 game rooms, movie theaters, Xbox challenges on…