Tutoring with the Tutor Corps Foundation

We’re so glad to have wonderful tutors eager to work with our Tutor Corps Foundation students! To prepare to support your TCF students, please review this guide and resources.

Helpful Resources for Working with Foundation Students

As with our other tutoring, we recommend that our foundation tutors approach their foundation tutoring from a holistic perspective, serving as thoughtful mentors to our students and integrating components of Social Emotional Learning into their instruction. It might also be helpful to support your student with executive functioning skills, helping them stay organized and on track.

Resources to guide you on this mission include:

All of our foundation students receive a set of learning materials to set them up for success and stay organized, including a document camera, white board, and dry-erase markers. These resources allow your student to share their work with you in real time so you can easily coach and redirect as they work through problem sets and other homework. Make sure you know how to coach your student through using their doc cam. Watch our 1 minute tutorial here.

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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Our scholarship is open to low-income students in grades 5-12 in Title 1 schools. They must be sponsored by a teacher and have access to internet for virtual sessions. The scholarship is open to students across the U.S.

  • The scholarship grants students 1 hour of free tutoring a week for the duration of their school year (approximately from the end of August through the end of May or early June).

  • Nope! The Tutor Corps team donates their time to supporting the students, and tutors are paid $25/hour for their time.

  • Yes, the Tutor Corps Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization, funded by donations and the Tutor Corps staff. Learn more here.

  • You will log your TCF tutoring time via TutorBird, the same way you log your other Tutor Corps tutoring. Please select “TCF Tutoring” as your lesson type. You will receive a separate direct deposit for this work, paid from our nonprofit. At the end of the year, you’ll receive a separate 1099 if you bill over $600 in foundation work.

“Thank you very much to the Tutor Corps Foundation for coming through for my daughter at such a crucial time. The scholarship you awarded her was such a blessing and helped her pass her accelerated geometry class with an “A”. She’s so happy and proud of herself!”
— Virginia M., parent of a Tutor Corps Foundation student

Hear about the impact of the program from Alyssa, our Education Manager who works directly with scholarship families!