Are you a high school student looking to give back to your community? Do you enjoy working with kids and want to grow as a mentor? Would you like to make or learn leadership skills?
Volunteering for Healthy Cities Tutoring accomplishes all that and more! When you volunteer, you can:
- Get valuable service hours
- Enter into our high school student College Scholarship lottery when you tutor for two years.
- Ask us for letters of reference for jobs or other opportunities, we love telling other people how much we appreciate you and the good you’re doing to support your community!
- Volunteering with HCT shows a sustained level of commitment that is highly valued by colleges and employers!
When you volunteer to be a tutor, let us know what days and times work best for you, and we’ll try to match your schedule. We’re in touch with you every step of the way!
- Tutoring is 1 hour per week, during the school year — no tutoring during school breaks.
- Most tutoring takes place at the school library especially if it’s during school or right after school. Tutoring can also happen at a local public library if the school library is closed for the day.
- Tell us which schools or sites work best for you — we’re at all San Carlos public schools including San Carlos Charter and many Redwood City public schools (Clifford Elementary School, Henry Ford Elementary School, McKinley Middle School (MIT), Taft Elementary School, and Siena Youth Center serving students from multiple students at this site)
- Tutoring usually happens on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays.
- We provide guidance, support, and feedback. The student’s teacher provides work for you to do together and often students themselves (especially middle school students!) take ownership of tutoring success and will come to each session with school work you can help them with.
Complete the volunteer application form here or email Alex Otis, alex@healthycitiestutoring.org for more information.
Teen Tutor Training – RSVP Now!
Join us for an upcoming Teen Tutor Training and learn more about what it takes to be an effective tutor and mentor to students in our program.
RSVP here
- Multiple sessions to choose from, all teens must attend one.
- Review best practices for volunteering for HCT.
- Share tutoring tips with others and learn from peers about how to connect with your tutee.
- Meet other teen volunteers and HCT staff.
- Review HCT resources and tools for supporting your student even when they say they have no work to do!
- If you can’t attend one of these sessions let us know so we can make other arrangements to give you your tutoring packet.
- Teens who are “returning” tutors (have tutored for HCT previously) can choose to attend a Zoom session instead. Dates and details below and at the RSVP link.
RSVP here
Help us recruit your High School friends!
Download these high school volunteer flyers to hang up at your school or hand out to friends.
