The Pomodoro Technique is a great strategy for anyone who struggles with executive functioning skills, time management, attention difficulties, or procrastination. It’s a method of organizing your time into concentrated sprints of work with periodic breaks. It’s designed to help you stay focused and get things done, and it works!
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Often parents wonder about the best time to start teaching their children reading and writing. The average child learns very basic writing skills around 3-4 years of age and knows how to read simple, age-appropriate books between 5-7. To get here, experts also say that the sooner parents start reading with their children, the better!
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It’s hard enough to stay organized as an adult – someone who has grown used to organizing their day. Children, whose brains are still forming and are new to the organization game, can have an even trickier time organizing tasks like homework and projects. Luckily, as technology has advanced to a point where digital classrooms are becoming more and more prevalent, so too have tools for helping students stay organized.
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As education in a post-pandemic society has begun to shift to digital and hybrid learning spaces, something else has happened to education in the United States. More families are turning to 1:1 education than before, and it’s drastically changing the way students learn.
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Our Fall Webinar Series has officially wrapped and we were so thrilled to welcome an engaging line-up of experts in child development, college counseling, and alternative education for traveling families. If you missed our events, please feel free to watch and share.
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At the Tutor Corps Foundation, our affiliate nonprofit organization, we have a lot to be grateful for this year. We are grateful for our Community Service Grant winners (Ella, Rowan, Sophie, and Zander), who have constructed Little Free Libraries in their communities to share the love of reading. We are grateful for teachers everywhere, but especially our Teacher of the Year winner, Leticia, a 3rd grade teacher committed to social justice. We are grateful for all of our scholarship tutors (Clare, Julian, Lenessa, Lili, Lupe, Robert, and William), who make room in their schedules every week to work with our amazing scholarship students. We are grateful for the families and mentors who advocated for their students and helped them receive the support they deserve. And, of course: we are grateful for our scholarship students, who show up consistently, ready to work hard and ready to achieve. Thank you for entrusting us with your education.
But of course, none of this would be possible without the generous support of our donors, who give what they can in order to spread the love of learning and help students achieve. Our scholarship students, low-income students throughout the SF Bay Area, are able to unlock the benefits of 1:1 mentorship thanks to your generous donations. As you plan your holiday giving, consider donating to the Tutor Corps Foundation. For just $25, you can sponsor a single tutoring session. $100 funds an additional month of tutoring, and $400 allows us to sponsor an entire semester. Whatever amount you can give, know that it will go directly to supporting students and teachers as the Tutor Corps staff donates their time to the foundation. To learn more and donate, visit the Foundation’s website. We are infinitely grateful that you’re a part of our community and for any support you’re able to give.
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We have incredible tutors. Learn about Matt M. who is an extremely valuable member of our teaching team. He has been working with students since 2008 and with Tutor Corps, Matt tutors high level English, history, government, and executive functioning.
At Tutor Corps, we firmly believe in supporting the entire student. What this means is, we don’t just focus on academics in our session. Our tutors naturally integrate social and emotional learning within each session. Each tutor works to get to know the student authentically so that they can fully support them to meet their goals.
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At Tutor Corps, we combine customized content, personalized learning strategies, and compassionate mentorship to help students understand not only what they need to know, but how to learn. Our approach includes a mix of content support, study skills development and mentorship, all delivered live and 1:1.
According to Brown University, emerging evidence indicates that virtual tutoring is just as effective as in person tutoring, and students and tutors have greater flexibility within the virtual setting.
This year, the Tutor Corps Foundation did a little something different with our Community Services Grants. With COVID, it’s been harder to safely connect with others in our local communities. But, it’s also more important than ever to explore ways to give back to your community. With this in mind, we launched the Little Free Library program. With the Little Free Library, four grant winners received a kit to build a Little Free Library in their communities, a starter kit of suggested books, access to marketing materials and a book recommendation guide, and the opportunity to meet with our founder Jesse Roselin.
Here at Tutor Corps, we are so unbelievably lucky to have Kathy Pahel as our Faculty Manager and Instructional Coach. Kathy brings an illustrious career and set of experiences to her role that allow her to advocate for and support teachers in an unparalleled fashion. With a BA in Political Science, minors in Education and Religious Studies, teaching credentials in English and social science, and a Masters in Education, Kathy is an educator through and through. She has been teaching since 2013, from ancient, medieval, and US history in the classroom to five years of 1:1 tutoring and homeschool teaching. Prior to joining our leadership team, she was also a 1:1 tutor with Tutor Corps and the Tutor Corps Foundation and a 1:1 teacher through our sister school, Pacific Preparatory.
This summer, our sister school, PacPrep has been so incredibly lucky to welcome our new Admissions Manager, Molly Tweten, to the family. Molly brings over 10 years of experience in social work, community engagement, and nonprofit management to the role, which puts her in a unique position to listen to families, understand their children’s needs, and advocate on their behalf.
We have incredible tutors. Learn about Alina S. who is an extremely valuable member of our teaching team. Alina is detail oriented, but does not lose sight of the big picture. She is thoughtful, caring, and deeply invested in student growth and wellness. She will help your child make academic gains.