Advocate on behalf of public education . JCRC mobilizes members of the Jewish community to promote policies that will help create a just society. All school volunteers are required to attend training and orientation sessions before beginning their work. Training focuses on work with early and emergent readers and includes a Jewish learning component helps make a link between this kind of work and the Jewish roots of social justice. The Coalition is committed to the ongoing development of volunteers tutoring skills.
Tutors attend support sessions with their team, lead by a reading coach.
Sessions focus on issues related to their school site and specific tutoring needs, as well as provide opportunities for resource sharing among tutors. The annual conference provides an opportunity for all volunteers and partners to come together to engage in lively discussions about current issues in education with top-notch local educators. Tutoring will take place at the partner schools, after-school programs and clinics in Boston, Cambridge, Framingham and Brockton. A Literacy Team is a group of volunteers who work in the same school, usually based in the same synagogue, organization, or interest group. Each Literacy Team has a Team Leader who helps with recruitment and serves as the primary contact with the partner school.