Education-Elementary and Middle Schools
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BAM! Brown Arts Mentoring
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Brown Arts Mentoring places Brown students in after school programs at two underserved local elementary schools. BAM! provides classes in both visual and performance arts and the year culminates in a showcase of student work. BAM! seeks to build mentorships, encourage confidence, inspire learning and foster creativity within all participants. Classes include art, dance, music and theater.
Contact:
Grace Dalrymple
Dilania Inoa -
Brown Language Arts Program
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The Language Arts Program provides writing support for children at the William D'Abate Elementary School in Olneyville and Asa Messer Elementary School in the West End. The program works with children at the third, fourth and fifth grade levels.
Contact:
Brian Lin
Dilania Inoa -
BRYTE (Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment)
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Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment (BRYTE) is an in-home tutoring and mentoring program that helps refugees acquire crucial language skills as well as cultural fluency in a time of difficult transition. It also fosters meaningful relationships and promotes cross-cultural understanding. Through BRYTE, Brown volunteers spend threehours a week working one-on-one with students on homework, literacy skills, and English skills; they also do activities with refugee students that help build their confidence in a new culture and city. BRYTE is a student-led organization that runs in collaboration with the International Institute of Rhode Island (IIRI) and the Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University. For more information, visit www.refugeetutoring.com.
Contact:
Jesse McGleughlin
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John Hope Mentoring Program
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The John Hope Mentoring Program is a partnership with the John Hope Settlement House, an agency that offers a variety of services to culturally diverse children and families in Providence. The program pairs Brown volunteers with youths who participate in the John Hope After-School Program, or whose families are involved in the John Hope Department of Social Services. Mentors provide educational, social, and emotional support for children through weekly tutoring sessions and youth development activities. While much of the work in this program happens in individual tutoring sessions, special events also bring youth and mentors together as a community. There are also a number of events in which parents join the mentors and mentees, creating a stronger system of support for these youth.
Contact:
Mikel Wiggins
Zahra Merchant -
Math Club
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Brown students teach the ever-important skills of logic, memory, numbers, and pattern recognition, to students at William D'Abate and Asa Messer Elementary Schools.
For more information, email Sidney_Kushner@brown.edu or Kayla_Rosen@brown.edu
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MET Family Literacy Program
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MET Family Literacy Program, a partnership with the Met School, offers classes two evenings per week to parents and children. Classes include ESOL, computer literacy, and Spanish language. Volunteers work with learners to encourage language and community development, and to assist learners in meeting their self-defined goals.
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Providence Science Outreach (PSO)
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Providence Science Outreach (PSO) sends Brown students into Providence elementary schools to organize hands-on science projects with kids. Volunteers try to ignite interest in science by showing children that science is exciting, fun and useful. By serving as role models and organizing simple experiments, volunteers show children that anyone, regardless of gender, ethnicity, or age, can succeed in science. Projects have included building bridges, growing plants, testing electricity, and making ice cream. Volunteers teach in teams of four or five, going to the same site weekly.
Contact:
Caitlin Naureckas
Dilania Inoa -
Swearer Classroom Program
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The Swearer Classroom Program provides hands-on literacy training to student volunteer tutors at the William D'Abate Elementary School and Asa Messer Elementary School in Providence. Brown student volunteers work, one-on-one, with elementary school students on their reading.