New Haven Tutoring Initiative
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Mission: The New Haven Tutoring Initiative is dedicated to increasing reading and math skills among New Haven students through high-quality tutoring, community engagement, and family support.
About the initiative: This initiative was founded by the City of New Haven, and several youth-serving agencies, including New Haven Reads, with the support of New Haven Public Schools, to address the challenges facing our students’ education. We are committed to providing equitable access to educational opportunities for all children in our community.
Program Details
The Tutoring Initiative, launched in the Summer of 2023, has 3 strategic focus areas:
After School & Summer Programming
- NHTI partners implement high quality reading and math enrichment and tutoring, based on scientifically proven instructional methods, into their existing programming for a minimum of
- 60 minutes per day
- 2 times a week
- Participating partners use one of the following tutoring methods:
- Infusion Model – students work in larger group settings on essential reading and math skills
- Tutoring Model – students work one-or-one or in a small group on foundational reading and math skills
Community Events
- Build a culture of commitment to literacy and math across our city
- Recruit volunteers and facilitate reading and math focused events engaging civic organizations, academic institutions, libraries, the business community, older students, seniors, faith institutions, and other partners
Parents
Supply parents with information and materials to support them in providing reading and math activities for their children at home
Program Components
Youth agency partners will integrate literacy and/or math tutoring activities into their traditional summer and/or after school programming a minimum of 2 days per week for 60 minutes per day. Literacy coaches from New Haven Reads and math tutors from New Haven Counts will work with youth agency staff to plan and facilitate activities, as well as to support implementation.
Students registered for after school programs with the listed NHTI Partners may be eligible to participate in the Tutoring Initiative. Parents can also visit the websites of the listed partners directly to register for after school programs.
There will also be community-wide events open to all families to spark a love for reading and math at home and to support families to build their own libraries and skills. Sign up to receive announcements about these citywide family events.
Volunteers are needed to support literacy and math tutoring this summer and during the academic school year. There is also a need for volunteers to help support community literacy & math events and to donate gently used books. To volunteer click here.
Another way to contribute to this initiative is by helping to expand the home libraries of families by donating your gently used children’s books. You can make an appointment to drop off your donations to the New Haven Reads Book Bank by emailing books@newhavenreads.org or calling (203) 752-1923.
Reading Partners
Students registered for after school programs with the listed NHTI Partners may be eligible to participate in the Tutoring Initiative. Parents can also visit the websites of the listed partners directly to register for after school programs.
There will also be community-wide events open to all families to spark a love for reading and math at home and to support families to build their own libraries and skills. Sign up to receive announcements about these citywide family events.
Volunteers are needed to support literacy and math tutoring this summer and during the academic school year. There is also a need for volunteers to help support community literacy & math events and to donate gently used books. To volunteer click here.
Another way to contribute to this initiative is by helping to expand the home libraries of families by donating your gently used children’s books. You can make an appointment to drop off your donations to the New Haven Reads Book Bank by emailing books@newhavenreads.org or calling (203) 752-1923.
Reading Partners
Another way to contribute to this initiative is by helping to expand the home libraries of families by donating your gently used children’s books. You can make an appointment to drop off your donations to the New Haven Reads Book Bank by emailing books@newhavenreads.org or calling (203) 752-1923.
Reading Partners
City of New Haven, the office of Mayor Justin Elicker
This project is being supported, in whole or in part,
by Federal Award Identification Number SLFRP3212 awarded
to the City of New Haven by the U.S. Department of the Treasury.
