A Public Education System Co-Designed to Serve and Empower all students.

We are D.C.’s trusted partner in citywide initiatives related to tutoring, talent, and truancy.

CitySchools Collaborative catalyzes high-impact tutoring and strategic talent models to serve thousands of students, improving student well-being, accelerating academic performance, and enhancing flexible staffing systems in schools.

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Our Work

We build and lead coalitions to innovate, implement, and scale school-based, research-backed interventions to further student success. Our work is rooted in design thinking, research and evaluation, and community building.

Our Impact

Our coalitions push the boundaries of the possible, producing research-based interventions that move the needle for DC’s most marginalized students and communities. We measure the impact of our work in terms of students reached, sites launched, and system-level change, aiming to cultivate the conditions that allow the research-based innovations we support to take root and thrive.

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Our Values

Given the long history of institutional racism in schools, we center race in our work. We embrace the curiosity and boldness needed to envision a more equitable school system for students furthest from opportunity. We acknowledge that the work of eliminating inequity, racism, and other forms of bias in ourselves and in society is continuous, hard, necessary work done with—and not for—historically underrepresented communities in DC.

We set a high bar for our work—we are collaborative in both the process and the product—as we work alongside schools, LEAs, community-based organizations, and government partners. We set clear goals, assess tangible progress, and prioritize meaningful improvement and development. We embrace the learnings from our successes and failures and hold ourselves and our partners accountable. Ultimately, what we do drives better outcomes for our students, schools, and communities.

We embrace the curiosity and boldness needed to envision—and build—what does not yet exist. We dream expansively, learn voraciously, and dare greatly in service of DC students and schools. We dream of a day where every student, regardless of race or background, has access to a future filled with choice.

We model the future we want to build—through our relationships with each other, our schools, and our citywide leaders. We invite diverse perspectives, build inclusive coalitions, and collaborate intentionally with all who strive to create a brighter future for DC students.

We recognize that schools are delicate, dynamic, and intricate communities and the work of redesigning those places and systems can be complex and frustrating work—and no one can do it alone or perfectly. We extend generosity and forgiveness when mistakes are made and learn alongside each other in our journey toward a more just public school system.

Our Team

We are determined to make Washington, DC, the first public education system where race and income do not predict a student’s ability to thrive and succeed. Meet the passionate changemakers behind CitySchools Collaborative.

Highlights From Our History

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CityBridge Education, a public charity dedicated to advancing equity and opportunity for all children is launched out of CityBridge Foundation.
CityBridge incubates CityWorks DC, devoted to reshaping the landscape of education and career development opportunities for DC youth and young adults.
CityBridge launches CityTutor DC to scale, support, and improve high-impact tutoring citywide as a response to pandemic impacts.
CityWorks DC becomes an independent nonprofit; CityBridge launches the Transforming Teaching Portfolio to support system leaders and schools with redesigning the teaching profession to be more sustainable.
CityBridge Education sunsets incubation programming and launches independently as CityTutor DC to focus on citywide solutions related to tutoring, talent, and truancy.
CityTutor DC rebrands as CitySchools Collaborative to reflect an expanding programmatic and geographic portfolio of school-based strategies for student success.

Upcoming Event

Join CityTutor DC on Wednesday, November 20, for A Brighter Future: Learnings from Transforming Teaching, as we celebrate key findings and lessons learned during the pilot year of our Transforming Teaching Pilot (TTP) initiative.