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Heart Math Tutoring Featured in Charlotte Observer

Heart Math Tutoring was featured in the South Charlotte News section of the Charlotte Observer. The article featured Cate Rogers, a first year Heart Tutor who lives in south Charlotte and is a retired teacher and school principal.

Rogers said she found the curriculum well-designed for volunteers and easy to wok with. Cate and her husband spent an hour a week at Piney Grove Elementary, each tutoring two children for half an hour each.

Read the full story here.

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2016 NC End of Grade Test Results Announced

This month, the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (DPI) released school-level and district-level results of End of Grade Tests (EOGs) from May 2016. Congratulations to Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) on increasing graduation rates and on topping state averages in math, reading, and science tests! Additionally, 86% of CMS schools met or exceeded growth expectations. Across the state, science and math scores increased while third grade reading had a slight setback from prior years.

In CMS, about 48% of students are performing at reading levels deemed “college … continue reading

Heart Math Tutoring’s Funding Initiative Grows Program to Include 12 CMS School Partners

Heart Math Tutoring has completed its Spring Funding Initiative and raised $630K, which will enable Heart to grow from eight to 12 school sites during the 2016/17 school year.

Funds raised were from grants, corporation donations and from community support. Individual donors contributed $220K. Several local and state-wide foundations have made commitments to Heart at the “School Sponsorship” level ($25K – $50K): Sisters of Mercy of North Carolina Foundation, Social Venture Partners, The Charlotte Mecklenburg Community Foundation at Foundation For The Carolinas, the Belk Foundation, … continue reading

Heart Math Tutoring Featured on TWC News

TWC News anchor Rob Boisvert talks with Heart Math Tutoring executive director Emily Elliott about the need for volunteers to help elementary school children build math skills and confidence. “We know that the foundational building block skills in math have long term consequences on students’ ability to be successful in middle school, high school, and make it through college. With the career field leaning toward STEM, going forward we know that math is very important.” See the full in depth interview here.

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Heart Math Tutoring Featured on Good Day Charlotte

“Our job is to make tutoring easy so that kids who are below grade level in elementary school math can catch up… Volunteers just give one hour per week to help kids pick up the skills that they don’t have yet,” says Emily Elliott, Executive Director of Heart Math Tutoring. “What matters is the kids are sitting in their classrooms waiting for this special person to pick them up every week to help them both with their skills and their confidence.” See the full … continue reading