Volunteer Tutors Needed to Help Students at 826LA (Virtual and In Person)

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Quick Overview: We are looking for lots of new volunteers to help support our students for the upcoming quarters!

Mission: 826LA is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting students ages 6 to 18 with their creative and expository writing skills, and to help teachers inspire their students to write. Our services are structured around our understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success.

Impact: 826LA provides tutoring and creative writing programs for thousands of Los Angeles students each year. Volunteers are needed to work directly with our students as tutors, mentors, role models, and cheerleaders.



Volunteer Role & Responsibilities (Currently offering a mixture of virtual and in-person sessions):

AFTER-SCHOOL TUTORING (In-person at our Echo Park location or Mar Vista location)

Four days a week during the school year, 826LA is packed with neighborhood students who come in after school for free one-on-one tutoring in all subject areas. Daily writing prompts are posted for students when they complete their homework, and reading--silent and aloud--is a standard part of every student's experience in this program.

FIELD TRIPS

Up to four times a week, we welcome into our writing labs an entire public school classroom for a morning of high-energy learning. In our most popular field trip for elementary school students, Storytelling & Bookmaking, students write, illustrate, and bind their own books in a little over two hours. We also offer choose-your-own-adventure field trips for middle school students, screenwriting field trips for high school students, and more--including custom-designed field trips.

WORKSHOPS

All year round, we offer free workshops designed to foster creativity and strengthen writing skills in a wide variety of areas, from the playful to the practical. All workshops are project-based and taught by experienced, accomplished professionals.

IN-SCHOOLS & COLLEGE ACCESS

Volunteers help HS students in our Writers' Room, at other school sites, and during college access weekend events work on curriculum-based assignments, craft personal statements for college, and draft essays for Young Authors' Book Project.



Requirements: Must attend Volunteering 101 training and complete a background check.

Locations: We have two locations from which to choose. We have one location in Mar Vista and another at Echo Park.

Benefits: The opportunity to work with local students and support community education!

Additional Information: If you are interested, please sign up for this opportunity here and reach out to volunteerteam@826la.org.

All volunteers participating in this volunteer opportunity should adhere to the health and safety guidelines outlined here: https://www.laworks.com/health-and-safety.

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*Important information

*Volunteer time shifts are broken down into the following time frames:

Monday Afternoon

Monday Evening

Tuesday Morning

Tuesday Afternoon

Tuesday Evening

Wednesday Afternoon

Wednesday Evening

Thursday Morning

Thursday Afternoon

Thursday Evening