Staff development sessions serve as an opportunity for ongoing support, feedback and training. Tutors learn the complexities of urban public schooling. They develop a strong camaraderie with their fellow graduate students. Tutors receive tuition scholarships and an hourly wage. Students' attendance rate increases when they have additional personal relationships in the school.
Students love the individual attention that tutoring provides.
Sometimes students are reluctant to ask questions in class. The tutoring period provides an ideal time to catch-up, and to clarify unanswered questions. We formally evaluate our program by tracking student attendance, grade promotion, and graduation. Perhaps the best evaluation of our programs is that the schools with which we work with request more tutors each year. Alumni of the program from around the world have stayed in touch with one another and have attempted to replicate the program in a number of places.