Warm and cozy at S2G HQ

Thanks to S2G Board Member Pramod Chakravarthy for the new space heaters to keep S2G Executive Assistant Michelle Antonucci and Program Assistant Jamila Shivers warm and cozy in the S2G office.

STEM Club – November 22

Jayla James, a high school senior, is currently running our Girls STEM Club on Mondays between 5 and 6pm. The girls in grades 1 through 3 are participating in engaging STEM related activities, such as a water balloon density experiment, making binary coding bracelets, creating confetti tube cannons, and measuring heart rate with a DIY stethoscope. The girls are learning the fundamental …

Tutor Blog – Olive & Ava

Decorative image. Two student volunteer tutoring.

Our experience at Suceed2gether (S2G) has been really wonderful. The kids that we’ve met have been intelligent, kind, and really funny. It has also given us the experience of being able to work with kids. For example, the students we currently tutor are first grade twins. They initially had trouble with reading and pronunciation of words. Over the course of …

Tutor Tales: Student & Tutor of the Week

decorative image. student and tutoring concurring math.

Daniel P. and Joshua JLG concurring math with critical thinking. Daniel P. (8th grade) and Joshua: Daniel and his tutor have recommitted to Daniel’s academics considering his hopes for college.

Upcoming workshops Jan/Feb 2019

Stem Club for Girls

Our Weekend/Weekday workshops will begin Tuesday, January 29th. All workshops will be held at 11 Pine Street, Montclair, unless otherwise noted!! Sunday – 1:30-3:00pm Reading FUNdamentals – Grades 1-3Algebra – Grades 7-9 Tuesday – 4:30-6:00pmSTEM Club for Girls – Grades 4-6 Thursday – 4:30- 6:00pmMath FUNdamentals – Grades 3-5 Sunday, February 3United Way Bld., 60 S. Fullerton Ave, Montclair1:00-3:00pm – Soldering for …

Tutor Tales: The Right Book

Our middle school Book Buddies often have an innate sense of how to nudge our youngest readers into the world of reading. Sometimes it’s a matter of finding the right book. By Anais Higgins Both of my students are great readers, although it didn’t start out that way. My first student, L., didn’t like reading at all when we first …

Tutor Tales: A Teacher Renewed

More than a dozen retired teachers serve as tutors and sometimes consultants, helping Succeed2gether to improve the quality of its training and programs. This former teacher found renewal in her work with her young charge. By Sandy Spatola As a retired teacher, I knew something was missing from my life; teaching had been my number one passion for nearly 30 …

Tutors Tales: A Book Buddy

Usually tutoring helps not just the tutee but also the tutor. That has been true with this young book buddy, who spoke about his Succeed2gether experience at the Montclair Literary Festival in March. By Kieran McCann I am a sixth-grade student at Renaissance Middle School at Rand in Montclair. I have been tutoring with Succeed2gether since September. My student is …

Tales From The Tutors 4/23

Sometimes – well, often – a tutor finds herself put on the spot, prompted to provide answers about more than grammar or computation. It’s part of the challenge – and the delight – of building relationships with students on their way to academic success. By Antoinette Martin During Black History Month, the first-grade student I work with handed me a …

Tales From The Tutors

Greetings and welcome to Tales From The Tutors. On Thursday, one of our parents came to me waving a copy of her son’s math test. There was a big red “100” scrawled at the top, and this after her 4th-grader had been scoring in the mid 60th percentile in math. In other words, failing. We all know T. is very …