Reading Partner Volunteers

Open Opportunity

About

Reading Partners is an education nonprofit that mobilizes community volunteers to provide one-on-one literacy tutoring to aspiring elementary-aged readers. Becoming a volunteer tutor requires no experience, as we provide an easy-to-follow curriculum that includes all of the books, worksheets, and set-by-step lesson plans to teach an effective lesson.

As Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, we have many skills that are needed today: cross-cultural understanding, language skills, flexibility, and understanding of others. Partnerships like these, allow RPCVs to channel the expertise and passion we bring into the projects and initiatives of organizations that need our experience, cross-cultural fluency, advanced language abilities, and technical competencies that we have gained and they enhance our capacity to create meaningful change here in the US, much as we have done since Sargent Shriver first called us to ‘Serve, Serve, Serve’.

VOLUNTEER COMMITMENT:

Volunteer in-person.
Work one-on-one with an elementary
school student(s) at one of our partner schools.
Follow Reading Partners' structured curriculum.
Attend a tutor orientation.
Complete a background check.
Commit to as little as one hour per week for a school year.
Follow the guidelines in our Tutor Code of Conduct.
Communicate with Reading Partners should any issues or concerns regarding students arise.
Assist the Reading Partners team in maintaining safe and effective tutoring sessions.

OUR COMMITMENT:

Provide a deeply meaningful way to get involved in your local community.
Provide a data driven, evidence-based program. Regular assessments and rigorous studies prove our curriculum is highly effective at improving reading skills.
Train and empower volunteers to effectively support students' academic progress.
Offer ongoing support to volunteers through coaching, regular check-ins, and debriefing sessions.
Create a warm, welcoming, and inclusive in-person and/or virtual environment conducive to learning.
Respond promptly to volunteer questions. Inform volunteers of upcoming events, calendar or schedule changes, and relevant program updates.

What we look for in a reading partner:

A positive attitude toward learning, diversity, and students.
Open to feedback and coaching.
Patience and empathy for students while holding high expectations.
An ability to interact effectively with diverse student populations.
Commitment to your student and tutoring Schedule.
Provide a deeply meaningful way to geT involved in your local community.
Provide a data driven, evidence-based program.
Regular assessments and rigorous studies prove our curriculum is highly effective at improving reading skills.
Train and empower volunteers to effectively support students' academic progress.
Offer ongoing support to volunteers through coaching, regular check-ins, and debriefing sessions.
Create a warm, welcoming, and inclusive in-person and/or virtual environment conducive to learning.
Respond promptly to volunteer questions.
Inform volunteers of upcoming events, calendar or schedule changes, and relevant program updates.