Please check out our tutees' literary magazine, "Taking Flight."

Founded in 1989, Community Tutoring offers individual tutoring with trained volunteer tutors from area colleges and universities, businesses, community organizations, and faith institutions. Staff makes academic assessments of each student enrolled in the program, and every student is given an individualized learning plan. Community Tutoring places emphasis on reading and mathematics, two critical foundation skills for children. Our volunteer tutors are dedicated and dependable. Children enrolled in Community Tutoring meet with a caring mentor each week, a tutor who is aware of both their needs and their strengths.

Community Tutoring provides 86 individual tutoring sessions each week. Staff manages and supervises more than 90 tutors working with 60 students from Gale Community Academy, other local elementary and middle schools, and local high schools. Community Tutoring staff is actively involved in finding placements at alternative high schools, charter schools, elementary magnet schools and private schools for students who have had a difficult time working within the traditional educational models or large class sizes of public schools.

During the 2002-03 school year, Community Tutoring has embarked on the Special Education Project, a program for supporting Gale Academy parents in obtaining the best possible education mandated by law for their special needs children. Community Tutoring staff is working closely with Gale Academy teachers, monitoring the Individual Education Plans of special needs students. Staff is currently being trained in best practices for teaching math and reading to students with learning differences.

Community Tutoring is open to children in Kindergarten through 12th grade and encourages long-term student-mentor relationships in which the same tutor and student work together for several years running, often until the student has enrolled in college.

Interested in becoming a tutor?

If you have a desire to share the joys and challenges of learning with a child, Family Matters' Community Tutoring program can provide you with the opportunity. High school and college youth and adults receive training in teaching math and reading skills. Tutoring sessions take place at Gale Academy during after-school hours and at Family Matters starting at 6:30 on week nights. Tutors commit to working with the same student at least one evening per week during the school term. Staff members prepare lesson plans for each student based on weekly progress reports. For more information, please contact Edwin Rodriguez, Tutoring Coordinator, at 773-465-6011, ext. 116.

Community Tutoring Director: Devon Lovell
devon@familymatterschicago.org

Please check out our tutees' literary magazine, "Taking Flight."

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