I wanted to let you know that two of our 6th grade boys, James Marino and Matt DeMeo, have been working hard to plan a Walkathon at Hormel to support the Mystic Market. Wegmans is donating water for the walkers. Would it be possible to post an announcement to CCSR’s Facebook page?  The pledge sheet is ...

Summer Leadership Academy The Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (CCSR), a program in the Medford Public Schools, is offering high school students an opportunity to participate in a Summer Leadership Academy in July. The students will learn important leadership skills and strategies, such as teamwork, collaboration, problem solving, social responsibility and project-based learning. The ...

Maria Silva  January 6, 20 When I Came to the US    In 2018, my family and I decided to come to the United States. The reason for that decision was that in Brazil at that time, many companies were losing money and firing employees because they were scared of collapsing. One of the employees ...

Brooks School’s 4th & 5th Grade CCSR Leaders Inspire Community to Support Veterans and Restore Neglected Monuments By Jonah Siegel – Medford High School – Class of 2025 Medford, MA – The Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (CCSR) led an inspiring community event at Oak Grove Cemetery, where 4th and 5th grade CCSR leaders from the ...

The experience of hopelessness in childhood can have significant adverse effects on a child’s development and well-being. When children feel hopeless, they may believe that their circumstances will never improve, that they lack control over their lives, and that their efforts are futile. This can lead to despair, helplessness, and a sense of worthlessness. Research ...

A group of students in Mrs. Nyland’s French 4 class put together baskets for many Medford High School families. They assembled baskets with Thanksgiving foods, paper goods and delivered them. This project is sponsored and funded by The Cummings Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, and The Krystle Campbell Community Betterment Fund.

On December 4th 2022, 18 students volunteered to help with a park cleanup, this was the first cleanup where the CCSR was partnered up with the Mystic River Watershed Association. Together the volunteers successfully  removed 11 full trash bags worth of trash from the park! Outstanding work!

On April 27, the CCSR is holding World Culture day event with a fashion show and performances! There will also be food and drinks available.

The CCSR is hosting a disability acceptance conversation as our second Diversity Week event! This will take place Tuesday April 26 after school in Cafeteria 1. We hope to see many students and staff there! Email [email protected] with questions.

The CCSR is hosting a music trivia afternoon to start of Diversity Week! The event will take place April 25 after school. We hope to see many students and staff competing! If you have any questions, please email Khushi Kaur at [email protected]

These CCSR student leaders helped to collect and box over 130 pairs of shoes and shipped them to Soles4Souls! They helped to provide relief, fight poverty, and empower women in some countries like Haiti and Moldova. We are so proud of you all! Pictured left to right: Naomie Pierre, Baban Gill, Cindy Nguyen, and Amy ...

Please join us on April 30, from 10 am-1pm for a CITYWIDE CLEAN UP!! Details are below.

These are our 2021-2022 school year CCSR officers! We are so thankful for your hard work this year. Listed from left to right: Row 1: Ellie Hunt, Lily Beagan, Laurel Baxter, Zayn Yousef, Amine Nazih Row 2: Baban Gill, Erin Tan, Dan Khoi Nguyen, Khushi Kaur Row 3: Sumaya Orni, Emma Maganzini, Ava Heinegg, Juliana ...

The CCSR is holding an Arbor Day poster contest! The theme is “The trees that bring us together”. The winners of the contest will receive $50, and submissions are due by April 22!

On Sunday April 3, the Mystic River Cleanup project with the help of CCSR student leaders: Jonah Siegel, Maggie Fowler, Emarlie Etienne, and other CCSR members completed another successful park cleanup. They joined forces with Mystic River Watershed Association to clean up near the Mystic River at the Condon shell in Medford. We collected 11 ...

The Kindness Garden is finally up! It is filled with flowers and butterflies of the kind notes that MHS students and staff wrote during Kindness Week. We hope that you feel a sense of positive energy and thoughts from the notes written there.

On Wednesday, March 16, 2022, CCSR held a Bingo Night fundraiser in support of Neurofibromatosis (NF), a genetic disorder of the nervous system. With the support of the Medford community and many local organizations, we were able to raise $877. In addition to the $500 from our first Bingo Night in 2020, the AMS CCSR ...

The CCSR is holding a bake sale on March 17 and 30 for schools supplies for MHS students. We hope to see you there!

CCSR students Ava Chasteen, Madeline Morris, Ainsley McInnis, and Emma Ademaj, worked on a fundraiser during January and February. Proceeds from the fundraiser went to victims of the Kentucky tornadoes. To fundraise, they had a bake sale every week in January and February. They ended up raising over $150 dollars. They were very glad that ...

Last week, the members of “Seeds to Feed” regrouped in the MHS Garden to start preparing for the spring season! Keep your eyes out for more from this group later in the school year!

The McGlynn Middle School CCSR is holding a donation drive for Ukraine! Students are also encouraged to wear blue and yellow on Friday 3/11, when donations will be collected during homeroom.

The CCSR is hosting a “Stand with Ukraine” gathering this Friday, March 4, at 7 P.M. in front of the Medford High School entrance. All are welcome, and we encourage you to wear blue and yellow on that night. There will be many student speeches, as well as a moment of silence. Also, there will ...

The CCSR is holding a Malden Warming Drive! Please bring donation materials to the Andrews Middle School Lobby.

The CCSR is partnering with SOLES4SOULS to make a Shoe Drive! All donations can be brought to the main lobby in the MHS. Contact [email protected] with questions.

CCSR student leaders Khushi Kaur, Nailah Chowdhury, and Shayan Chowdhury are busy preparing for Kindness Week this week. Please stay tuned for our Kindness Week activities, starting the week of March 7.

On March 16th, the CCSR is holding a Bingo Night with food, drinks, raffles, and more! All money raised will be donated to NF Northeast.

CCSR student leaders Sandro D’Aveta and Melissa Antoine organized a carnation sale today for Valentine’s Day. They sold over 150 carnations! Great work, Melissa and Sandro! We are so proud of you!

CCSR is now selling hats! They are $15 dollars each. Please contact Mr. Skorker ([email protected]) if you are interested in buying one.

Support CCSR’s paint drive! These will be used to paint murals in the school. Thanks to CCSR student leader Savanna Nash for organizing this drive! If you’d like to donate , please contact Ms. Carnabucci at [email protected]

The CCSR in partnership with the Friends of the Medford Public is hosting a used book sale for Medford teachers to thank them for all of their hard work this past year! The book sale is open to all Medford educators and school librarians and will have books for kids and adults of all ages. ...

Stella Heinegg and Lindsey Quinn started sewing teddy bears using donated textiles to give to a local shelter, just in time for the holidays. We are so proud of Stella and Lindsey for all of their hard work. Their goal is to make at least 50 teddy bears! If you’d like to donate your fabric ...

The McGlynn Middle School CCSR hosted the 4th annual Mustang Way Assembly for the 6th graders last Wednesday. Middle school and high school students shared their stories about what the Mustang Way means to them. They shared the importance of ACE, the Mustang Way and how it is applied to our academics, athletics and our ...

Don’t throw it away! The CCSR is running a textile drive organized by Stella Heinegg and Lindsey Quinn. You can donate your old fabrics and clothes at City Hall or in the boxes located at the high school. The students will be turning these donations into handmade stuffed animals for the kids at St. Mary’s ...

The Sewing Club and CCSR at the Andrew’s Middle School will collaborate to make donations to Bread of Life in Malden. The Sewing Club will make toiletry bags and CCSR will collect items to fill these bags and they will be donated by December 23. If you can spare any of these items listed below, ...

Acceptance means something different to everyone, but it is a universal concept. The CCSR is asking students to answer the following question: “What does acceptance mean to you?” Submissions from students will be put into a video that will accompany a mural about disability acceptance, which can be found outside of Cafeteria 2. Although the ...

If anyone is interested in marching in this year’s Medford Teen Pride March, hosted by the CCSR, GSA, and the Medford Public Library, please sign up on the SignUpGenius link below. If you have any questions, please reach out to Mr. Skorker or Ms. Simpson. Happy Pride, everyone!!! (http://tinyurl.com/medfordpride)  

Thank you so much to Senator Jehlen for including us in her e-mail newsletter!  We are so grateful and appreciative!   Dear Neighbors, This is the first of a set of newsletters about education.  In this season of hope and renewal, it features the voices and work of four groups of young people I find ...

CCSR MicroPantry at Tufts Park is fully stocked! Thanks so much to CCSR student leaders Andrea Suribory and Daniel Morgante for stocking the micropantry yesterday.

CCSR student leaders Evenson Charles, Tony Huynh, Owen Kelly, Kendrick Richardson, Romeo Roberts, Jackson Calvert, Valdi Vainqueur, Derek Lozius, and Bryant Garcia raised money to buy hand sanitizer, disinfectant, and bacterial wipes for Rosie’s Place, a local women’s shelter.  The students’ goal for this project was to provide the shelter with items greatly needed to ...

Medford community Hope chest  2021 Warm Clothing Drive  Would you like to help the Medford community by donating some winter clothes? This is the opportunity for you! Please look through your closets and bring any of the items listed below to the MHS Hope Chest donations box in the front lobby: -Hats, gloves, and scarves ...

Aniya Crump, Justin Curcio, Baban Gill, Ellie Hunt, Khushi Kaur, Amine Nazih, Erin Tan and Zayn Yousuf are MHS students from the CCSR, a student based leadership organization. They have been working on a project to reduce the amount of plastic utensils used by recommending businesses to give plasticware out on a request only basis. ...

  Medford sixth grade students were determined to fill the Little Free Libraries around Medford with aged appropriate books. They noticed that the majority of the libraries had books in them for an older audience. With the current pandemic and the rebuild of the Medford Library, they wanted books to be more accessible to middle ...

  Sarah Lima, Alyssa Parziale and Paloma Castillo Navarro have been making masks due to COVID for people who aren’t able to get masks. They have been learning how to make them at home, and are planning on making over 150 masks in total! One completed, they will be dropping the masks off at local ...

School Supplies for Students!!! Lily Beagan and Cadyn Golisano are collecting school supplies for the students of Medford! They are collecting donations from now until December 14th. Donation boxes are located in the following: Medford City Hall, Andrews Middle School, McGlynn Middle School, Roberts Elementary School, Columbus Elementary School. Please reach out to Lily or ...

Through a generous grant from the Tufts University Community Outreach Program, individual donors, and a matching grant from our partner the Outreach Programs meal-packing project Medford High’s CCSR program helped Sanctuary UCC’s Meals for Medford Mission distribute another 25,000 servings of protein rich, shelf stable food for Medford. These meals are delivered through Medford’s Food Pantries and Micropantries – ...

CCSR student leaders Andrea Suribory and Daniel Morgante are working on a food-drive project that they are calling, “Essential Work.” They are accepting canned goods and all non-perishable items from now until Monday, January 11. All food items collected from this “Essential Work” project will go to the CCSR Micro Pantry, located at Tufts Park, ...

“Interested in performing in this year’s CCSR K-12 Virtual Musical Theater?  See the flyer below, and e-mail Melissa and/or Phillip with your video audition!”

Over the past month, Baban Gill, Eleanor Nkera, Naomie Pierre, and Oprah Nkera have been working on the garden at Medford High School.  They harvested and distributed 19 bunches of oregano, 5 bunches of dill, 4 punches of mint, and one bunch of garlic chives.  Great job, Baban, Eleanor, Naomie, and Oprah! We are so ...

On Saturday, November 7th, the CCSR collaborated with the Mystic River Watershed Association and the City of Medford in order to host a cleanup along the Mystic River. This event took place from 10 AM to 12 PM. The participants wore masks and remained six feet apart at all times in order to ensure the ...

CCSR student leaders Baban Gill, Naomie Pierre, Oprah Nkera, and Eleanor Nkera. Seeds to Feed is a CCSR project! Our project goal is to bring life to the MHS garden. We want to replant fruits and vegetables throughout this season. We will use them to feed struggling members in our community and donate to Mystic ...

Hello Fellow Students,   My name is Sam Cluggish, and I am emailing you from the CCSR. My project this year focuses on getting as many students registered to vote as soon as possible so that you can join the public discourse and effect direct change in the government. This year, it is especially important ...

  Delilah Putnam Bagley created COVID 19 Prevention Kits for three schools in the Medford Public School District. The COVID 19 Prevention Kit will hopefully provide masks for 750 students and a few classrooms. Delilah received donations from Costco and the Medford Farmers Market Vendor Bart’s Ice Cream. Delilah also contributed all of her money ...

Students from the Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility (CCSR) at Medford High School have added their own unique beauty and whimsy to the jersey barriers surrounding the outdoor cafe at Shanghai Moon restaurant in Haynes Square. Working together on two afternoons, five students painted all seven jersey barriers with flowers and butterflies. The traffic-facing ...

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Listen to the message Ms. Andre has to share about pride month!

McGlynn Middle School CCSR adviser, Ms. Meghan Olsen, states: “Each year the CCSR contributes to the McGlynn Middle School, the Medford community and beyond. Every student and every project completed has an essential goal, to make the world a better place. I am amazed by the student’s resilience and desire to continue their efforts during school closure. ...

The CCSR is hosting its first Virtual H.O.R.S.E. Tournament! ALL are welcome! Here is how it will work: All games will be tournament style where winners will move on to the next round. There will be one H.O.R.S.E participant per volunteered basketball hoop. (If you are interesting in volunteering your basketball hoop, please e-mail Aidan ...

From the People Against Pollution Club of the early 1970s, to more than 30 environmental projects undertaken by students this school year, Medford High School has a proud, five-decade tradition of environmental activism. The City of Medford also has been a leader in this area over that time, creating the first municipal Climate Action Plan in ...

Dechen Antsa, Rachell Paz, and Liana Curcio put together a montage of “thank yous” and messages from Medford High Students to thank all health care professionals working at this difficult time for their hard work and dedication. We are all juniors at MHS and have parents, family, and other friends who are currently giving their ...

A CCSR student leader made these beautiful images below

Ms. McKenzie and her Columbus Elementary School CCSR Student Leaders put together this beautiful Earth Day Video! Please take a look. Congrats to all! We are so proud of you!  

With the end of the year at hand, some CCSR students at the McGlynn Elementary school wanted to express their thoughts about the CCSR. Here are their testimonials below in text and video form.   Alyssa Kumar   Keziah Diligent   Summer Zheng   Leonardo Hernandez Dawa Lhamo Georgianna Alves Ava Moylan

From the People Against Pollution Club of the early 1970s, to more than 30 environmental projects undertaken by students this school year, Medford High School has a proud, five-decade tradition of environmental activism. The City of Medford also has been a leader in this area over that time, creating the first municipal Climate Action Plan in ...

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Take a look at some photos of middle school CCSR events taken a while back CCSR Bingo Night   New England Animal Shelter CCSR Group   Bracelets for Breast Cancer Group  

Amishika Dhaurali and Elise Turner went to present their CCSR project, Benches of Dugger, to the City Council last night for the complete approval of a Community Preservation Act’s Small Grant Program. The City Council unanimously approved the awarding of $3,000 for the project and even suggested the possibility of bumping up the grant to ...

On Tuesday, March 3rd, Aniya Crump, Miranda Gomes, and Christopher Hunt from the Hospitality for the Homeless Team earned 90$ during the polling at the Brooks Elementary School. The team consists of everyone listed above as well as Amine Nazih. They hope to use all the proceeds to buy necessities for a homeless shelter in Medford.

Yesterday, Miranda Gomes, and Aniya Crump made cookies for their “Hospitality for the Homeless” Project. These two amazing CCSR student leaders made about 3-4 dozens of cookies to donate this week.

A great presentation was made by CCSR students Jules Franks and Ellie Hunt tonight to ban polystyrene (styrofoam) in Medford. Their proposal was positively received, and in fact, at the behest of Councillors Bears and Morell, language for a draft ordinance already has been assembled. On a 7-0 vote, the draft ordinance was referred to ...

What an awesome end to our Winter Session here at CCSR! Becca Toltz, Volunteer Coordinator at Northeast Animal Shelter in Salem, came in person to accept the multitudes of donations that many of our groups had spent the last several weeks hand-crafting! She was overjoyed when she saw that we had made “snuffle mats” (1st ...

On February 10, the CCSR, in collaboration with the Humanities Department, hosted a voting registration drive at Medford High School.  With the help of parent Chenine Peloquin, English teacher Douglass Bowen-Flynn, and CCSR Program Coordinator, Michael Skorker, we were able to register/pre-register 123 students!  Thank you so much to everyone for making this happen, and ...

Below is an interview about the CCSR on a local cable TV program called Medford Ed Talk.

This week, Isabella DeSouza, Amer Shah and Lucas Ruocco won a Medford Arts Council grant to paint a display on the Roberts Elementary School playground. Congratulations to these awesome CCSR leaders, and thank you so much to the Medford Arts Council for this opportunity.  

As members of the CCSR, a group of four girls, Nevin Mustone, Ruby Andreasen, Rory McConnell, and Hayden Winter wanted to support their two friends at the Andrews w ho suffer from Neurofibromatosis (NF). On Thursday, January 30th, the CCSR hosted a Bingo Night in the Andrews Middle School cafeteria to raise money and awareness ...

Come donate to the Kitty Connection Drive in room C201!

Check out an interview with CCSR Director Richard Trotta and CCSR Coordinator Michael Skorker on the Transformations Podcast: Learn more at https://www.transformationspodcast.com/

Check out the MLK Day celebration the CCSR hosted below On Monday, the CCSR and its students helped support and volunteer at St. Raphaels for an MLK day celebration. The event celebrated the legacy of Dr. King through poems, table conversations, and much more. Posted by Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility on Wednesday, January 22, ...

Kiwanis/Key Club is an international student-led organization providing high school student-members with opportunities to provide service, build character and develop leadership skills. The core values of this organization are leadership, character building, caring and inclusiveness. Our objectives involve serving our school, our community and those who need our help. Some of the projects include Holiday Caroling in ...

Thanks so much to the Medford Community Fund for providing us with a $5,000 grant, we truly appreciate your partnership and funds! The CCSR is grateful for all its providers, and it would not be possible without them.

Come join us at the Martin Luther King Annual Community-Wide Celebration on January 30 from 11-1:30 at St. Raphael Parish Center ! Posted by Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility on Sunday, January 5, 2020  

Sunday December 22 evening, Theodora and Vicki went to Staples and bought 75 cards with three different designs they had children from Special Townies make. They folded all the cards themselves. On Monday December 23 morning, Theodora and Vicki went to Little Sisters of the Poor during the residents’ lunchtime and interacted with them. They ...

We are so excited for this event! Our collaboration with the Krystle Campbell Community Betterment Project is very important to the CCSR, and we are honored to be able to partner with such great people and such a great organization in loving memory of Krystle Campbell. Krystle, you will always be in our hearts, and ...

Today, four CCSR students working on the Composting in the Cafeterias Project traveled on a field trip to some of the North Andover Public Schools in order to learn from their composting practices. Seniors Audrey Soule, Rachel Klein, Cadee Stefani, and Ebyan Abshir went with Retta Smith and were given a tour of two elementary ...

McGlynn Middle School Lookup Challenge Hosted by the CCSR   The CCSR is sponsored by grants from the Cummings Foundation and the Krystle Campbell Community Betterment Project. At the McGlynn Middle School, the CCSR initiated the schoolwide LookupChallenge. The challenge originated from Ms. Susan Reynold’s presentation on December 4th, “Thriving in the Age of Digital ...

Today the Key Club did caroling all around Medford Square! We went to Coleen’s, Carol’s, Salvatores, Real Gusto, the Medford Housing Authority, and the Chevalier Theater and spread Christmas cheer to all who could hear. We also collected donations from many generous citizens in the establishments and those donations will go towards funding our service ...

On December 4, a group of CCSR student leaders went to Medford City Hall to volunteer at the Christmas Tree Lighting. Students helped with setting up and maintaining the different trees being raffled off throughout the night. They had a great time interacting with the children there and representing the CCSR at this charity event! ...

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The McGlynn Middle School and Andrews Middle School 8th grade classes were blessed to hear a presentation by the first-ever Youth Poet Laureate of the United States of America at the McGlynn Middle School on Friday, November 15th. Amanda Gorman has been called “the next great figure of poetry in the U.S.” Amanda, a current ...

Thank you so much to Emma McGlynn for making this video!

Today, many CCSR members presented our Mustang Way Assembly to the sixth graders at the McGlynn Middle School. The assembly focused on the importance of being respectful, kind, caring and empathetic. Thank you so much to all student leaders who participated, as well as to advisor Meghan Olsen who did an amazing job organizing the ...

Bob Socci, the radio broadcaster for the New England Patriots, visited to talk to a CCSR high school group!

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Thank you so much to Richard Blanco for coming to Medford High School today and reading some of your beautiful poems. We are so grateful for your visit, and we know that you words will continue to inspire others for generations to come.   Read more here! http://www.mpsadvantage.education/2019/10/23/richard-blanco-latin-american-poet-speaks-at-mhs/?fbclid=IwAR2RIUpjnSIt5yJqEhuTRoaFg4HVuBk_ahztgug-jF23w9ZgnhE9SCPE00s

The CCSR put positive Post-It notes on all freshman lockers today to welcome them to the high school.                    

Thank you so much to the Kiwanis Club of Medford for their generous donation of over $1,000 to CCSR tonight! And thanks to seniors Ebyan Abshir and Emily McDaid for speaking on the CCSR’s behalf! We are so grateful for our collaboration with the Kiwanis Club of Medford!

Many members of the CCSR attended the Global Climate Strike in Boston on September 20th. These Medford students were among the estimated nine to ten thousand in attendance. They decided to purposefully miss school to take action against one of the biggest threats to their generation. Climate Change is real and its disastrous effects are ...

Thanks to Tufts University Community Relations for inviting us to Tuft’s Community Day! We had such a great time!

On September 21st, some CCSR members got out to help the Kiwanis Club of Medford raise money! Check out some of the posts below: The Kiwanis Club even gave us a shoutout! Check it out here: https://www.facebook.com/kelly.catallo/videos/10219727659564015/  

Thank you to Tufts University Community Relations for the shout-out! Read what they had to say below.  

Read Mayor Burke’s comments about the CCSR and the 3D Illusion Crosswalk project in the Facebook post below: ⭐️ SUNDAY SHOUTOUT ⭐️ •• Center for Citizenship and Social ResponsibilityFounded in 2013, CCSR is a program… Posted by Mayor Stephanie Muccini Burke on Sunday, September 8, 2019

The 3D Illusion Crosswalk Project that has garnered national attention is now featured on the September 2, 2019 issue of the Scholastic News Edition 5/6! Subscribers can access this article by clicking on the following link: https://sn56.scholastic.com/issues/2019-20/090219.html

Medford high school students Jenny Lu and Joe Schmidt and Brooks elementary school students Liam Brady and Jasmine Hagbourne stand next to the Medford Slavery Memorial in Salem Street Burying Ground. Photo credit to Erin Clark for WBUR   On Saturday, June 8th, 2019, CCSR students Jenny Lu, Joseph Schmidt, Jasmine Hagbourne, and Liam Brady unveiled the ...

The 3D Crosswalk Project started by Brooks CCSR students Eric and Isa has gained a lot of attention as the crosswalk was finished in April, 2019. There are multiple news articles on the crosswalks: https://patch.com/massachusetts/medford/3-d-crosswalk-installed-outside-medford-school https://boston.curbed.com/2019/4/23/18512272/medford-3d-crosswalks https://whdh.com/news/medford-elementary-school-students-see-3d-crosswalk-plan-come-to-life/   And there is a NowThis video about the crosswalk: Your browser does not support the video tag. ...

This group of 4th and 5th-grade CCSR students wanted to do something to help endangered animals, and after some internet research, they found out that the Franklin Park Zoo and the Stone Zoo collect used cell phones to save gorilla habitats. To start, they printed up some coloring pages of gorillas for younger students to ...

  CBS Article: https://www.msn.com/en-us/video/n/students-surprised-with-national-award-for-helping-others-navigate-school/vp-AAyz3rj

All the staff and student leaders at the Center for Citizenship and Social Responsibility at Medford High School would like to thank Andrea Bates at Bates Insurance for her generous donation of $700.00 for the purchase of T-Shirts! It is people like her that serve as positive role models for our youth. Once again, thank ...