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Senior (50+) Reading Tutor in Novato Elementary Classrooms

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ORGANIZATION: Empowering Children Bay Area

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Calling all volunteers (age 50+)! Virtually tutor a child in grades K-3 twice a week in Sonoma County. We will continue virtually through the end of this school year, and continue both virtually and in-person when it is safe to do so.

Empowering Children Bay Area inspires and empowers adults age 50 and older to serve in their community and disrupt the cycle of poverty by making a lasting difference in a student's life. By volunteering as a reading tutor, you can help change a child's future. You provide the life experience. We'll provide the training and support.

ECBA Tutors will be trained on a half hour structured tutoring session and meet with the student twice a week.

Requirements:

- Live Scan
- Photo ID
- Online Application
- Orientation and Training

You choose your:

  • school
  • grade
  • days of the week and time of day
  • tutoring approach (1on1)

contact program manager Paul Chilvers 415 912 6025 pchilvers@sequoialiving.org

Join us and make an impact that could be everlasting.

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About Empowering Children Bay Area

Location:

481 O'Farrell St, San Francisco, CA 94102, US

Mission Statement

Empowering Children Bay Area (ECBA), recruits, trains and places older adults (50+) into elementary schools for literacy tutoring. We have sites in Marin San Francisco and Sonoma. Onboarding entails a fingerprinting process and a quick zoom training. Help bring children up to grade level all the while meeting peers and enjoying a community of tutors with like minds and interests. Check out our website at sequoialiving.org/kids.

Description

Experience Corps Bay Area in partnership with Sequoia Living and AARP Experience Corps is an inter-generational volunteer-based tutoring program that is proven to help children who aren't reading at grade level become great readers by the end of third grade. We inspire and empower adults 50 and older to serve in their community and disrupt the cycle of poverty by making a lasting difference in the lives of America's most vulnerable children.

CAUSE AREAS

Children & Youth
Community
Education & Literacy
Children & Youth, Community, Education & Literacy

WHEN

We'll work with your schedule.

WHERE

Novato Public Elementary SchoolsNovato, CA 94949

(38.05999,-122.50333)
 

SKILLS

  • Mentoring
  • Literacy / Reading
  • Reading / Writing
  • Tutoring

GOOD FOR

  • People 55+

REQUIREMENTS

  • Background Check
  • Must be at least 50
  • Orientation or Training
  • Minimum 1 hours/ 2x week during the school year.
  • High school graduate.

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