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Hands-On Learning More Effective, Hands Down

A recent post on Parent Toolkit echoes HEART Tutoring’s curriculum that encourages students to learn through hands-on experience with the numbers rather than memorizing procedures or facts. HEART uses all seven tips that Parent Toolkit suggests.
One of our favorites on the list:

“… Play math games and point out math relationships in real life. For instance, while your child is racing toy cars, you might show him that each car has 4 tires and ask how he could quickly figure out how many tires … continue reading

Support HEART with AmazonSmile

Do you shop regularly, or even occasionally, on Amazon.com?

The online retailer’s foundation, AmazonSmile, created a great, easy way to support HEART Tutoring when you make purchases. By linking your Amazon account to HEART’s AmazonSmile account, a portion of the price of your eligible purchases will be donated to help local students.

To designate HEART as your AmazonSmile nonprofit of choice, click this link http://smile.amazon.com/ch/26-2354082 or search “Amazon Smile” on your Amazon account and then search for “HEART Tutoring.”

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Holiday Parent Events

What a fun past two weeks, as tutors, parents, and students gathered to learn card games students can play at home to practice their math skills during Winter Break.

Parents, you can download card game instructions in English or instructions in Spanish.

Here’s a recap of the fun:

Thanks so much to our partner schools, parents, and tutors for coming out to celebrate the students work … continue reading

Stories to Inspire on Stage

HEART got to be interviewed alongside four other great organizations last Friday night at Wingate University.  Huge thank you to Sarah Batista and Stories to Inspire for the chance to share the story!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vXM-hB-i74A

https://www.flickr.com/photos/127704340@N04/sets/72157647481708362/?fb_action_ids=10152697019112258&fb_action_types=flickr_photos%3Aadd&fb_ref=w&fb_source=aggregation&fb_aggregation_id=288381481237582

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Volunteers – An Untapped Resource

Volunteers can be a powerful source of academic support for struggling students – on a widespread scale.  Here are some programs doing it well, and the work is still ahead of us.

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/an-untapped-force-in-the-fight-for-literacy/?_php=true&_type=blogs&smid=nytcore-ipad-share&smprod=nytcore-ipad&_r=0

“Slavin believes that community volunteers should be a part of a tiered system of tutoring that employs volunteers, paraprofessionals and, for kids who need the most help, certified teachers. “But … You’d need an army of volunteers to work with the number of kids struggling in schools.”

That army exists, said Lombardo. … continue reading