Agency Details:

Tutoring Program At Hawthorne Elementary

Our project's goal is to help close the racial achievement gap in Madison Schools through the use of 1:1 literacy or math tutors.

Description:
The Schools of Hope Project at Hawthorne Elementary recruits community volunteers to act as one-on-one literacy or math tutors for kids in Kindergarten to 5th grades. An AmeriCorps Volunteer Coordinator provides volunteers with basic training and access to other district-wide trainings that will benefit them in their roles as volunteer tutors.

Hawthorne is a K-5 school that serves an area on the east side of Madison near East Washington and Fair Oaks Aves. and around N. Thompson Dr. It is located just behind Gardner Bakery, off of E. Washington. Hawthorne has a student population of about 300 students with diverse abilities, ethnic backgrounds, and economic situations.

Hawthorne Elementary is located just a couple blocks from the #6 bus line.

History:
The Schools of Hope Literacy Project began in 1995 as a civic journalism project by the Wisconsin State Journal and WISC-TV that studied the ways that active community engagement could address critical needs. Educational issues quickly emerged as a community priority. A Leadership Team comprised of community leaders was convened by United Way of Dane County. They reported the achievement gap between students of color and their white peers as a growing concern. Upon further study they identified tutoring as a method of addressing this challenge, and in 1998 the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) awarded a grant to provide AmeriCorps*VISTA members who would serve as volunteer coordinators in Madison elementary schools. Since then the project has been expanded to include Sun Prairie and Verona school districts.

When the CNCS grand ended in 2004, United Way of Dane County allocated funding to continue Schools of Hope. RSVP of Dane County was asked to serve as the Lead Agency for the project. At that time, the project partners applied for and received a CNCS AmeriCorps*VISTA grant to support early learning activities for preschool children, and the Preschools of Hope Project was launched.

In 2007, the project was awarded an AmeriCorps*State grant through the Corporation for National and Community Service. This grant provided for the Schools of Hope and the Preschools of Hope efforts to combine in order to provide a seamless approach to providing literacy and math support for students in preschool through fifth grade.

Contact people:

Jane Moy, Volunteer Coordinator, (608) 204-2516, (email) Patty Hoppe, School Psychologist, (608) 204-2551, (email)

Office fax number: (608)204-0423

Address:

3344 Concorde Ave Madison, WI 53714 (See a map)

Web Site: http://www.madison.k12.wi.us

Directions:

By car: East Washington Ave. to Fair Oaks Ave. -- south on. . . (more)   Nearest Bus Stop: Route 6/E. Washington and Lexington (eastbound); E. Wash and Wright St. (westbound), <5 minute walk

Miscellaneous Information

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Last updated on February 18, 2009