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, New Haven Public Schools, and several youth-serving agencies 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 a pilot program in the summer of 2023, and there was an official launch for the academic school year in the fall of 2023. The Tutoring Initiative will have three strategic focus areas:

1. After School & Summer Programming: Implement high quality literacy and math enrichment and tutoring, based on scientifically proven instruction methods, through after school and summer programs.

2. Community Engagement: Build a culture of commitment to literacy and math across our city through broad community engagement and a powerful communication initiative. Use these tools to recruit volunteers and facilitate literacy and math focused events engaging civic organizations, academic institutions, libraries, the business community, older students, seniors, faith institutions, arts organizations, and other partners.

3. Parents & Families: Supply parents with information, training, and materials to support them in providing literacy and math activities for their children at home. This will be inclusive of those for whom English is not their first language.

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.

For Parents

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.

For Volunteers

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.

For Book Donations

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.