Tutor Corner

Read the latest “Tutor News” for important and practical information when you are an active tutor.

Happy Fall!

Dear Healthy Cities Volunteers,

We are now almost a full month into the fall, and we can certainly feel the weather changing. Have you asked your students if they have observed these changes?

We have had a very productive start to the school year with 220 tutoring pairs matched and started! Thank you to our wonderful Volunteer Site Coordinators for all your help, and thank you to our tutors for helping us work out the days and times.

One especially exciting item of news we would like to share is that we are now supporting a new school in Redwood City – Hawes Elementary. We are enjoying getting to know the school and staff, and we have already kicked off some tutoring pairs there as well.

As always, please let us know if anything changes regarding your schedule or if you need any assistance. Thank you for a great start to the school year!

Sincerely,

The Healthy Cities Tutoring Team

Important Dates

Oct 9: Schools closed (except SCCLC)
Oct 18: Tutor Orientation and Training
Oct 23: No school Charter Learning Center
Nov 8: Tutor Orientation and Training
Nov 10: Veterans Day Holiday – all schools closed
Nov 20-24: Thanksgiving break

Thank you for being role models!

One of the many important aspects of Healthy Cities is our work to help build a community we all want to live in. In our establishing intergenerational connections, even high school to elementary school, we show our young children that our community supports them. These children will carry this knowledge with them, and studies have shown that they are more likely to go on and be future volunteers in their communities. Click here to link to an article about encouraging our youngest community members to become future volunteers too. Thank you for your help in teaching them this lesson!

Our first tutor pairing at Hawes Elementary in Redwood City!

Tutor Training on October 18 and November 8

Our annual training and orientation for new volunteers is coming up! If you are new to our program or have not attended a fall training session in the past, we strongly advise you to attend one of the training sessions being offered on October 18 or November 8.

On October 18, you may choose between a morning session from 8:30-10:30am or an evening session from 6:30-8:30pm. The training will be in the Multi Use Room at White Oaks School, 1901 White Oak Way in San Carlos.

On November 8, the training session will be from 6:30-8:00pm in the Clifford School Library at Clifford School, 225 Clifford Ave in Redwood City.

No RSVP required.

Parent-Teacher Conferences can impact your tutoring sessions!

Each school has different dates and times for parent-teacher conferences. During a school’s conference week, students are dismissed earlier than usual. As such, unless you tutor in the morning, your tutoring session will be cancelled during a school’s conference week. Please check in with your student’s teacher, family or our office if you are not sure about your tutoring schedule that week. In most cases, afternoon tutoring sessions are canceled when school is out, though some tutors may prefer to try and schedule a make-up time with parents.

We will send school-specific reminders as dates approach.

Arroyo – Oct 23-27 (1:10pm dismissal)

Arundel – Nov 13-17 (12:25pm dismissal

Brittan Acres – Nov 13-17 (12:25pm dismissal)

Central – Oct 23-27 (1:17pm dismissal)

Clifford – Nov 20-21 (No school Thanksgiving week)

Hawes – Nov 20-21 (No school Thanksgiving week)

Heather – Nov 13-17 (12:25pm dismissal)

Tierra Linda – Oct 23-27 (1:20pm dismissal)

White Oaks – Oct 23-27 (12:35pm dismissal)

Bonus Points!

Math game to play with your tutees: How Close to 100?

Click here to read an article on why teachers allow spelling mistakes.

Healthy Cities Tutoring Training and Workshop calendar – in progress

School calendars

video resources

Math games with cards and dice

useful websites/articles

School calendars

Find the school calendar for the whole year to find out when schools are closed and no tutoring will take place.

San Carlos School District calendar (Arundel, Brittan Acres, Heather, White Oaks, Arroyo, Central and Tierra Linda)
San Carlos Charter Learning Center calendar
Clifford School calendar
Connect Community Charter School calendar
Fair Oaks Community School calendar
Hawes Elementary School calendar

Video resources

Video of “Training and Orientation for New Tutors” (held 10/19/16 )
Video of workshop “Learning Styles, everyone learns differently” (held 4/7/14). Missed the workshop on Learning Styles? No worries! You can catch up on this very interesting topic by clicking on the link. What type of learner are you?
Video of workshop “Supporting Your Student in Math” (held on 3/4/14). If you weren’t able to attend this workshop, led by two teachers from the San Carlos School District, check out the video links. Part 1 is about the “Everyday Day Math” curriculum that is being used in the elementary schools in San Carlos and Part 2 delves into the aspects of a math class in middle school.
1. Part 1:“Supporting Your Student in Math”: elementary school part of math workshop
2. Part 2: “Supporting Your Student in Math”: middle school part of math workshop