Capital City partners with educational organizations that provide resources and expertise in support of our program and our students.
 

Featured Partnerships

(listed alphabetically)

Backrs logo

Backrs: Backrs is an app that connects students, or proteges, to a larger team of community members to share resources, advice, financial support, affirmations, and more to ensure they reach their goals. Backrs partners with our High School. 

Teen Trensetters logo

Barbara Bush Foundation — Teen Trendsetters Program™: Through the Teen Trendsetters™ reading program, Capital City high school students are trained as mentors and work weekly with their 1st and 2nd grade mentees to improve their reading. A partner since 2016, Capital City was the foundation's first DC partner school.

Carlos Rosario logo

Carlos Rosario International PCS: Since 2016 as part of their English as a Second Language for Families Program, Carlos Rosario International PCS has been providing classes at Capital City for our parents and adult family members looking to improve their parenting and life skills through standards-based English language instruction.

Citybridge logo

CityBridge Education: Capital City received a Breakthrough Schools grant to redesign our high school program to better personalize learning and ensure success for all students. Through this program, Capital City has received training, expertise, and resources as well as connection to an amazing network of schools committed to innovation and student success. Capital City teachers and leaders have also participated in the prestigious Education Innovation Fellowship.

DC Arts and Humanities Collective Logo

DC Arts & Humanities Collaborative: Through their Arts and Humanities for Every Student program, the DC Collaborative provides our students with access to age-appropriate cultural experience in the community and provides visiting artists to enhance our programming. A perfect fit for our EL Education school. The Collaborative also offers professional development for teachers.

Diverse Charter School Coalition Logo

Diverse Charter Schools Coalition: As a member of DCSC, Capital City is connected to fellow diverse charter schools and receives access to outside resources to help improve our education practice.

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DC SCORES: Since 2012, Capital City has partnered with DC SCORES to offer after school soccer and creative writing programs to our 4th-8th grade students. DC SCORES provides training, coaches, equipment, uniforms, a competition schedule, and transportation for away games. Through the outstanding developmental program provided by DC SCORES, we have built one of the strongest school-based soccer programs in the city. In October 2015, Capital City was one of 20 schools around the country to receive a state-of-the-art soccer mini-pitch thanks to MLS WORKS, adidas, the U.S. Soccer Foundation and Southern New Hampshire University. Our partnership with DC SCORES was instrumental in bringing this opportunity to our school.

EL logo

EL Education: Since our inception in 2000, Capital City has proudly partnered with EL Education (formerly Expeditionary Learning) to implement this comprehensive model. Through hands-on learning experiences, EL provides a model that challenges students with high level tasks and active roles in the classroom. EL provides school leaders and teachers with professional development, curriculum planning resources and new school structures to boost student engagement, character, and achievement.  Because of our exemplary implementation of the model and strong track record of academic achievement, Capital City was selected to serve as an EL Mentor School. We regularly host visiting educators and others interested in learning about the EL model.

Flamboyan logo

Flamboyan Foundation: Capital City partners with Flamboyan to increase parent engagement to support college readiness and success. Through the partnership, we work to remove barriers to parental involvement and initiate new strategies to improve outcomes.

LearnServe logo

Learn Serve International: Capital City high school students have worked with other students from around the area to learn how to build sustainable social change.  Students participated in a transformational summer program to Paraguay in 2017. LearnServe’s Seeding Social Innovation program supports our Middle School program and is a great fit with the 8th grade’s Designing Our Future expedition.  

Leveling the Playing Field Logo

Leveling the Playing Field: Leveling the Playing Field provides donations of sporting equipment to jump start and support our athletic programs.

NC Outward Bound logo

North Carolina Outward Bound School: Through our partnership with North Carolina Outward Bound School, Capital City high school students have had the opportunity to participate in a 21-day summer wilderness course in the Blue Ridge Mountains.  Capital City teachers have also participated in the educators program, experiencing an Outward Bound course and participating in a year-long cohort of teachers learning and sharing best practices in experiential education.  

Shakespeare Theater Company logo

 

The Shakespeare Theatre Company (STC): The STC supports our arts program by providing tickets and transportation to shows as well as pre-workshops so that students are well prepared for the experience. Additionally, the STC offers outstanding professional development to arts and classroom teachers.    

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Spark the Journey: Spark the Journey offers academic support and college and career readiness programming through a one-on-one mentoring program that works with students in high school and through college. Capital City is proud to have partnered with Spark the Journey (formerly Capital Partners for Education) since 2011 and to currently have the largest number of Spark the Journey scholars.

Other Partnerships

Capital City also has thriving partnerships with a variety of organizations that support expeditions by hosting students on fieldwork and providing experts who visit the school.  Many partnerships also support our thriving arts and fitness programs. 

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These Partnerships Include:
  • 826DC
  • AALEAD (Asian American Leadership Empowerment and Development for Youth)
  • Advocates for Survivors of Torture and Trauma (ASTT)
  • African American Civil War Museum
  • Alice Ferguson Foundation
  • Alliance for a Healthier Generation, Healthy Schools Program
  • Alpha Leadership Project (DC College Access Program)
  • American Poetry Museum
  • American University — Marshall Brennan Fellows
  • American University Biology Department
  • Anacostia Watershed Society
  • Arena Stage
  • Assateague State Park
  • Association of American Geographers
  • Audubon Naturalist Society
  • Ayuda
  • Baltimore Museum of Industry
  • Bank on DC
  • Beauvoir — National Cathedral Elementary School
  • Bee Informed
  • Black Girls Code
  • Bladensburg Waterfront Park
  • Brainfood
  • Bridging the Watershed (Alice Ferguson Foundation)
  • Carecen
  • Casey Trees
  • Catholic Charities
  • Catholic University
  • Center for Food Safety
  • Center for Inspired Teaching
  • Center for Victims of Torture
  • CentroNia
  • Charter Board Partners
  • Chesapeake Bay Foundation
  • Children's National Medical Center
  • Children’s Concierge, LLC — We the People Constitution Tour
  • City Blossoms
  • City Wildlife
  • Claude Moore Colonial Farms
  • College Success Foundation
  • Community of Hope
  • Corcoran College of Art and Design
  • Corcoran Museum
  • Coalition of Schools Educating Boys of Color (COSEBOC)
  • Creative Spark
  • Cycled! Takoma Park
  • DC Arts and Humanities Education Collaborative
  • DC Central Kitchen
  • DC City Council
  • DC Commission of the Arts And Humanities
  • DC Department of Parks and Recreation
  • DC Department of Energy and the Environment 
  • DC Farm to School
  • DC Greens
  • DC Greenworks
  • DC Jobs with Justice
  • DC Legal Council for the Homeless
  • DC Project
  • DC Sail
  • DC Special Education Cooperative
  • DC Water and Sewer Authority
  • DCPS Arts Department
  • Dent Education
  • District Shakespeare
  • DIverse Charter Schools Coalition
  • EarthForce
  • Education Pioneers
  • Electric Vehicle Association of Greater Washington, D.C.
  • Environmental Film Festival
  • Ethiopian Community Development Center (ECDC)
  • EverFi
  • Excelencia in Education
  • Facing History and Ourselves
  • Fairfax Water Treatment Facility
  • FarmRaiser
  • Fight for Children
  • FOCUS (Friends of Choice in Urban Schools)
  • Folger Shakespeare Library
  • Fort Dupont Ice Arena
  • Foster and Adoptive Parent Advocacy Center
  • Future Makers
  • GALA Theatre
  • Genetic Alliance
  • George Mason University
  • George Washington Medical Center
  • George Washington University CLD (Culturally and Linguistically Diverse program)
  • Georgetown University Alpha Phi Omega
  • Girls Who Code
  • Global EEE
  • Green America, Fair Labor Campaigns Director
  • Groundswell International
  • Hattie Holmes Senior Wellness Center
  • Healthy Living
  • Hispanic Scholarship Fund
  • How Good, Inc
  • Howard University Libraries
  • Human Rescue Alliance
  • Human Rights Campaign
  • Institute for Educational Leadership
  • International Relief and Development
  • Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin
  • InterTribal Buffalo Council
  • investment management attorney
  • ISSAC Sports Conference (Independent Small Schools Athletics Association)
  • Joanne Pizarro
  • Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor
  • Kennedy Center Visiting Artists
  • Koshland Science Museum
  • La Clínica del Pueblo
  • Lab School of Washington
  • Labyrinth Games
  • Latin American Youth Center
  • Leading Educators
  • LearnServe
  • LGBT Immigration Equality
  • Liberty's Promise
  • Library of Congress Surplus Books Program
  • Life Coach
  • Life Pieces To Masterpieces
  • Living Classrooms
  • Lutheran Social Services
  • Manna
  • Martha’s Table
  • Martin Luther King Jr. Library
  • Maryland Coastal Bays
  • Marymount University
  • MOMIE'S TLC
  • Mosaic Theatre Company
  • National Archives/National History Day
  • National Gallery of Art
  • National Geographic
  • National Park Service (Rock Creek Park)
  • National Parks Trust
  • Smithsonian’s National Zoo
  • New Leaders for New Schools
  • NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
  • One World Education
  • Open Book Children's Literacy Foundation
  • Partners of America
  • Peer Health Exchange
  • PEN/Faulkner Center
  • Phoenix Bikes
  • Poetry Foundation
  • Politics & Prose
  • Popular Science
  • PR Business
  • Prince George's Sports and Learning Complex
  • Public Charter School Athletic Association / DC State Athletics Association (DCSAA)
  • Pulitzer Center
  • Refugee Council USA
  • Refugees International
  • Retired Physicist
  • Revolution Foods
  • Rock Creek Conservancy
  • Rock Creek Park Volunteer Office
  • Rocklands Farm
  • Safe Routes to School National Partnership
  • SEIU
  • Shakespeare Theatre Company
  • Shore Thing Shellfish, LLC
  • Smith College — Center for Aqueous Biochemistry
  • Smithsonian American Art Museum
  • SMYAL
  • Source for Learning/ FCC Broadband
  • Split This Rock
  • St. Mary's College of Maryland Admissions
  • St. Mary's College of Maryland Biology Department
  • State Farm (Good Neighbor Student Achievement Grants)
  • Sticky Inspirations
  • Studio Theatre
  • Sultana Projects, Inc
  • Sweetgreen
  • Teach Plus
  • Teaching for Change
  • Teatro de la Luna
  • The Ivymount School
  • The First Tee National School Program
  • The New Teacher Project
  • The Washington Post Newspaper
  • The Women's Collective
  • Trabajadores Unidos
  • Trinity Washington University
  • U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • U.S. State Department
  • UClass
  • University of the District of Columbia - CAUSES
  • University of Maryland - Biology Department
  • UNICEF
  • United Nations High Commission for Refugees
  • United Students Against Sweatshops
  • Urban Forestry Administration
  • Urban Teachers
  • US Holocaust Memorial Museum
  • Valley Place Transitional Housing, Coalition for the Homeless
  • Washington College Center for Environment and Society
  • Washington Improv Theatre
  • Washington Parks and People
  • Washington Performing Arts Society
  • Washington Urban Debate League
  • Washington Youth Garden
  • Wendt Center for Loss and Healing
  • Whitman Walker Clinic
  • Wilderness, Leadership & Learning
  • WINNERS Lacrosse

Top photo of Capital City students and partner courtesy of Allison Shelley/The Verbatim Agency for American Education: Images of Teachers and Students in Action