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- Since 1975 I've led a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program that connects inner city kids with workplace volunteers, in structured, non-school, site-based programs. I now work to make such programs available in all high poverty neighborhoods of Chicago and other big cities. Learn more by reading my blog and visiting my web site.
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Posted on April 18, 2011 at 12:59pm 0 Comments 0 Likes
This graphic is from an animation project done in Jan 2011 by a college intern from Korea who was working with the Tutor/Mentor Connection in Chicago. This illustrates the learning that occurs each week as a volunteer does service in a tutor/mentor program. It shows how volunteers share what they…
Continue Face to Face networking at Tutor/Mentor Conference in Chicago on Nov. 19 and 20
Posted on October 4, 2009 at 9:38am 0 Comments 0 Likes
I meet many different people via my Internet work, and share many of their ideas on my blog and the links at http://www.tutormentorconnection.org
Every six months I host a conference in Chicago intended to draw together people who focus on volunteer based tutoring and mentoring, online learning, workforce development and other strategies aimed to help kids… Continue
Every six months I host a conference in Chicago intended to draw together people who focus on volunteer based tutoring and mentoring, online learning, workforce development and other strategies aimed to help kids… Continue
With so much knowledge, how do you sort through it and share it with your students, peers, parents and community?
Posted on March 13, 2009 at 10:30am 0 Comments 0 Likes
I've browsed the 200 pages of introductions over the past year and it's amazing all of the great ideas that are here. I share some of these on my own Tutor/Mentor Connection web site so that volunteers and students in non-school tutor/mentor programs might use these just as often, or perhaps more often, than do kids in inner city schools.
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Building a network of non-school tutor/mentor programs
Posted on October 9, 2008 at 1:45pm 2 Comments 0 Likes
This is a map of the Chicago region showing concentrations of poverty and locations of poorly performing schools (according to state information). Our aim is that people use these maps to focus attention, and resources, on neighborhoods where non-school volunteer- based tutoring, mentoring, arts and/or technology programs might help keep kids safe, model different careers and aspirations than might be modeled in a high poverty area, and help… Continue
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Thanks for your message. I know a bit about Mentors Inc and have heard that they are doing great things with DC area kids. I'm not familiar with the Tutor/Mentor Connection, but plan to check-out that website along with the maps. Will be in touch!
Cynthia
The Math Collaborative is just getting started, with a few pilot programs just getting underway, but it's focused on providing tutoring services (1-on-1 or small groups) through a virtual classroom. It seems to have great appeal to those tutoring many students and driving endless miles to connect. It should also be a boon to tutors trying reach more inner city students.
You said... "What you won't find is enough people trying to help build a network of trained people who can facilitate the uses of these technologies or learning programs..."
This is EXACTLY what my company is doing! We aren't working to "provide" the tutoring, rather be a system that provides the best vehicle for its facilitation. Fourth Logic (my company) is working to be the avenue, not the method, or the facilitator.
Your organization would be able to utilize the systems on 4th Logic for free, charge your 'clients'/users for free and even charge (if you want) for those wanting tutoring from you from outside your network.
Stay tuned! http://www.fourthlogic.com/
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