Category Archives: Blog

Volunteer Spotlight: Sara Reynolds

With the recent end of the 2022-23 school year, we want to celebrate another year of tutoring by highlighting one of the many Heart Tutors that play an essential role in supporting Charlotte students. This Volunteer Spotlight focuses on Sara Reynolds, who just finished her third year as a Heart Tutor. Sara discovered Heart Math Tutoring through her church, Carmel Baptist, during the peak of the pandemic, and given the isolation the pandemic produced, “I wanted to do something to connect with and serve others,” … continue reading

Heart Math Tutoring’s New Partnership with Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools Featured on Local News Station

Heart Math Tutoring is excited to be partnering with Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools (WS/FCS) for the 2023/24 school year after unanimous approval from the WS/FCS School Board. The new partnership was recently featured on Winston-Salem’s WXII 12 News.

WS/FCS K-12 Mathematics Director, Velvet Simington, told WXII 12 that “teachers in WS/FCS work extremely hard every day to deliver high quality and equitable mathematics instruction to all students, but we do know that as a result of the pandemic, we’ve got some gaps that were exacerbated. So … continue reading

Heart Math Tutoring Receives $250,000 Grant from Accelerate and Participates in Tutoring Evaluation Accelerator

We are excited to announce that Heart Math Tutoring will receive $250,000 from Accelerate, a national nonprofit working to make high-impact tutoring a standard feature of the American school day!

In addition to being a grant recipient, from May to December 2023, Heart Math Tutoring will join a cohort of ten tutoring providers to participate in Accelerate’s new Tutoring Evaluation Accelerator (TEA). Partnering with J-PAL North America, Accelerate intends to “support tutoring providers across the United States to implement data-driven programs and generate … continue reading

Student Spotlight- KIPP Change Academy

We are shining the spotlight on Heart’s wonderful, individual students and their hard work during tutoring! For this edition of Heart’s Student Spotlight, we sat down with KIPP Change Academy Student Jack*! Jack is a sports fan and his favorite teams are Manchester United and the Buffalo Bills. He loves his two brothers, his mom, and his dad.

Jack’s teacher nominated him to participate in HMT, and he was pre-assessed to determine individual areas of growth before being matched with volunteers, who tutor him virtually … continue reading

Volunteer Spotlight: Recognizing Freedom School Partners

At Heart Math Tutoring, we know that supporting Charlotte’s youth and providing equitable education opportunities is a community effort. For this reason, we would like to highlight the work of Necole Watts and Alexis Young, two of Heart’s volunteer tutors that are employees of our community partner, Freedom School Partners (FSP). Read below to learn more about how Necole and Alexis came to tutor at Heart and how their volunteer experiences support the values and mission of Freedom School Partners.

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