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Heart Receives Education Grant From Charlotte Hornets Foundation, Lowe’s

The Charlotte Hornets Foundation and Lowe’s Education Grant program awarded a total of $50,000 to Heart Math Tutoring and five other local organizations to support high-need education-related projects.

Heart Math Tutoring received a $5,000 grant in support of its math intervention program in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools for 2016-17. Executive Director Emily Elliott and a second grade Heart student from Billingsville Leadership Academy accepted the grant during the check presentation ceremony during halftime at the Charlotte Hornets game Nov. 20 against the Philadelphia 76ers.

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Heart Math Tutoring Featured On Charlotte Talks

Charlotte Talks, one of the region’s top news talk programs, featured Heart Math Tutoring and other innovative math programs in Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools in its Nov. 3 broadcast.

The hourlong show featured Emily Elliott, Heart’s Executive Director, host Mike Collins and guests Tim Chartier, associate professor of mathematics and computer science at Davidson College, and Kaneka Turner, an elementary math specialist at Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.

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Heart Math Tutoring Receives $20,000 From Wells Fargo For Billingsville Leadership Academy

Heart Math Tutoring is happy to share that for the second consecutive year, a grant of $20,000 from Wells Fargo will allow us to partner with Billingsville Leadership Academy. Starting later this month, around 75 Billingsville students will be seen one-on-one by a tutor twice per week through early May.

“We are proud to support an organization like Heart Math Tutoring where their focus is to eliminate the achievement gap and provide a quality education for all students,” said Kristi Thomas, Community Affairs Officer for … continue reading

WBTV News: Math Skills Can Boost Student Confidence

John Carter of WBTV News interviewed Heart team member Padgett Sullivan about how the research-based curriculum works and improves student confidence.

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Heart Math Tutoring is recruiting volunteer tutors for the 2015-16 school year and is asking for the community’s support. The goal is to recruit volunteers to be tutors for 350 elementary school students.

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Volunteer Tutor Shares Rewarding Experience On ‘Charlotte Today’

Heart Executive Director Emily Elliott and volunteer tutor LouAnn Vaughn talked about our volunteer drive Monday, Aug. 17, on “Charlotte Today.” Colleen Odegaard and Eugene Robinson host the weekday morning news/lifestyle show on NBC Charlotte (WCNC-TV).

Vaughn explained that Heart’s research-based, structured curriculum is easy to tutor, interactive and engaging. Students use real-life situations and games so that “instead of memorizing math facts, (they’re) understanding how numbers work and understanding in their bones that 3 and 4 together make 7,” Vaughn said during … continue reading