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 bright, but he needed the guidance of a clear-headed math teacher. Like tutor Marilyn Graham. After just two or three sessions with Marilyn, T. realized he needed to slow down and show his work, not race ahead to the answer. Thus T. aced his next math test, and I got the hug from his mother.
There are so many great, gratifying, inspiring stories from after-school tutoring. They deserve to be shared beyond my own dinner table.
It was another tutor, fellow journalist Antoinette Martin, who suggested a Succeed2gether tutor blog. And so here we go. Here we invite tutors and book buddies to share vignettes from Succeed2gether’s one-on-one tutoring program after school at the Montclair Public Library. We offer one main guideline to our contributors: please protect the learning environment for students and families by not using student names. Our goal is to share and delight in the ways we are all succeeding together.
If you have a vignette you’d like to share, please send it along to ccooper@succeed2gether.org and we’ll be sure to post it here. Stay tuned for our next post.