Educational Video Center (EVC)
Educational Video Center (EVC) is a rigorous afterschool program offering academic credit that meets the Common Core Standards as students learn to produce a documentary on a subject of personal interest and community relevance.
Students devote 3 hours a day, 3-4 afternoons per week for 15 weeks during the semester researching, planning, shooting and editing of their social issue documentary.
They develop real-world 21st century skills as they collaboratively learn to ask hard questions, examine evidence, search for solutions, and make their voices heard through fact-based arguments and artful storytelling. All youth participants present their final work and answer audience questions at a premiere public screening in professional venues and present evidence of their learning based on EVC rubrics to a panel of teachers, media professionals, and family members in portfolio roundtable.
Students new to EVC attend the Basic Workshop and more experienced and returning students attend the Advanced Workshop where mentors help them with college applications, internship and job opportunities. We are proud that EVC graduates have gone on to work at a range of media companies including the ABC, New York Times, PBS’s POV series, Hispanic International TV Network, Bloomberg News, BET, History Channel, CNBC, Nickelodeon and the Manhattan Neighborhood Network.
The Educational Video Center is a non-profit youth media organization dedicated to teaching documentary video as a means to develop the artistic, critical literacy, and career skills of young people, while nurturing their idealism and commitment to social change.
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“We’re thrilled to collaborate with City-As-School, one of the great pioneers of experiential education in our city. We’ve enjoyed having City-As-School students and teachers in EVC workshops over the past 3 decades, We share the values of progressive, learner-centered education. ”
