Category Archives: Heart News

Students, Parents and Tutors Celebrate Holiday and Progress

Through Dec. 20, parents, tutors, and students will gather to celebrate students’ progress in Heart with food and fun. Parents will learn math games to play at home, and students will receive goodie bags that include a deck of cards and game directions. All will celebrate students’ accomplishments in Heart so far!

See slideshows of each celebration with our twelve Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools partners. The current slideshows (from top to bottom): Piney Grove Elementary, Pinewood Elementary, Montclaire Elementary, Sedgefield Elementary, Westerly Hills Academy, Highland Renaissance Academy, Merry … continue reading

Heart Math Tutoring Featured in Charlotte Five

Heart Math Tutoring was featured in Charlotte Five as we work to find tutors for 600 Charlotte-Mecklenburg students. The article dispels five myths about tutoring, including “I have to be a math pro,” and “I won’t know what to do.” Read the full article here!

http://www.charlottefive.com/ready-volunteer-heart-math-tutoring-makes-easy/

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Heart Math Tutoring Celebrates Successful Volunteer Drive!

Many thanks to our volunteers and partner organizations throughout our community for your amazing support to make our volunteer drive a big success! To date we have secured tutors for 550 elementary school students at 12 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools during the 2016/17 school year.

We are in great shape to kick off the school year, but we still need additional volunteers to serve 600 students. There’s still time to sign up to volunteer, but we encourage you to sign up sooner than later since students are … continue reading

Heart Math Tutoring Thanks Charlotte-Area Media

As part of our volunteer recruitment drive to secure volunteer tutors to serve 600 students during the 2016/17 school year, we have been busy spreading the word. We are very grateful to our Charlotte-area media for helping raise awareness about Heart and our recruitment drive for volunteer tutors!

The following are media outlets and links where we have made recent appearances. Happy watching!

• WCNC – “Charlotte Today”
• FOX 46 Charlotte – “Good Day”
• Time Warner Cable News Charlotte – “In Depth”
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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