NewRoot Learning Institute
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Mission Statement
NewRoot Learning Institute believes all young people, regardless of their background, deserve access to safe schools and postsecondary education. NewRoot is an essential on-the-ground partner for public high schools seeking to increase student attendance and engagement, reduce violence and disciplinary infractions and increase graduation and college enrollment rates. NewRoot's model of Restorative Justice, College & Career Readiness and Social & Emotional Learning creates the necessary conditions in schools for all students to achieve academically and ultimately succeed in college. NewRoot is currently impacting more than 6,000 students and 300 teachers at 9 public high schools across Chicago.
About This Cause
Founded in 1997 as a unique school-community partnership at Manley High School, NewRoot equips young people to succeed in college and confidently claim their future. Our mission to support low-income youth is advanced through intensive partnerships with schools and an infusion of expertise backed by research and tools that builds a school’s capacity to create a more peaceful, productive culture. To-date, NewRoot has supported more than a dozen public high schools across the city of Chicago in their efforts to transform school culture and increase postsecondary readiness. Our core program areas include College & Career Readiness, Restorative Justice and Social & Emotional Learning. During the upcoming 2022/23 academic year, NewRoot will have staff on-the-ground at a core group of 10 Chicago Public Schools (CPS) partner high schools and one community organization, as well as share our coaching and curricular resources with an additional 10 CPS high schools through two pilot programs with the district. NewRoot's theory of change is grounded in the understanding that in schools in communities hardest hit by poverty, disinvestment and violence, organizing around academics alone is not sufficient to drive transformation. To complement the academic program, schools need a set of comprehensive and integrated supports to help students navigate the journey through high school to graduation and beyond. NewRoot's infusion of human capital and professional development builds the capacity of the school to: 1) eliminate the disconnects that far too many students feel between their current education and future aspirations, 2) build trust between students and adults to help meet the social-emotional needs of students, and 3) reduce conflicts and restore relationships by keeping all of our students in the school and classrooms – with us, where we want them – rather than pushing them out onto the street.