Alexandria Tutoring Consortium

It Takes Two to Tutor

What could be sweeter than a volunteer devoting their time to helping a child learn to read? Doing so with loved ones! This Valentine's Day, we are highlighting a few sweet families among our tutors who share the love between them with others.

Rick and Sarah Glassco

Married

Loyd and Eve LaMois

Married

Anna and Sandy Davis

Married

Diana and Walt Jarrett

Married

Sada and Elizabeth Dahouk

Stepmother-daughter

Personal relationships drive the work we do at ATC. We are grateful for the bonds each tutor forms with their Buddy, coordinator, and fellow tutors.

You all are the HEART of this organization.

Thank you!

2nd Quarter Update:

Book Buddies are Making Great Progress

ATC is currently serving 12 of 14 elementary schools in Alexandria City Public Schools (86%) including ALL of the elementaries with a Title I (high poverty) designation. With help from gracious donors and our brigade of 220 volunteer tutors, we are providing tutoring to 24 more children than last year. Our Book Buddies have completed over 3,154 tutoring sessions so far this year. As a result, students have progressed an average of 2.7 reading levels, when the expected growth at this point in the year is 2 levels. Amazing work all around!

Book Buddies LOVE Their Tutors

Sue Woodruff, a tutor at William Ramsay (pictured above with her Book Buddy), got a sweet surprise this week. Her buddy wrote her a note that will melt any heart.

The note, pictured to the right, reads:

"Dear Book Buddy, I know that every first time of school we can get a new Book Buddy, but I don't want you to leave me. You are my best friend and my best Book Buddy. I love, love, love you."

Community Partner Spotlight

Every year the Dr. Scholl Foundation graciously donates to ATC to help fund the Book Buddies program at James K. Polk Elementary School. This year their donation is giving 20 Polk students access to the one-on-one tutoring they need to be better readers. We are incredibly appreciative of their perennial giving and belief in the power of reading.

Polk Book Buddies and their tutors (Carol Becker, Maureen McNulty, and Ashley Simpson Baird) hard at work in several different tutoring spaces at the school.

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