Category Archives: Volunteer Resources

Seek First to Understand…

Seek First to Understand…

In Stephen Covey’s “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, Habit #5 is “Seek First to Understand, Then to Be Understood”. Heart Tutoring’s Program team recently spent the weekly training time seeking to understand more about our students, most of whom are growing up in various levels of poverty.

“Locate a resilient kid and you will also find a caring adult—or several—who has guided them.”- Invincible Kids, U.S. News & World Report

“School is the single context within which the … continue reading

Volunteer Recruitment Tools

Tutors and Partners,

Please help spread the word about volunteering with Heart! The tools below may be useful.

• Heart Recruitment Kit – This Word doc includes newsletter blurbs and email templates suitable for publicizing to your contacts or within an organization.
• Heart Math Tutoring – Volunteer Flyer – This downloadable flyer shows the who, what, when, where, and why of volunteering.
• Volunteer Videos – Share the 11 minute overview or 90 second clips with volunteer, donor, and general information.
• Include Heart in your

CMS Releases “Breaking the Link” Equity Report

By Heart Staff

Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools released Breaking the Link, a 70-page equity report on school demographics, teacher qualifications, test results, attendance data, and more. This kicks off the district’s strategic planning process for 2018-2024.

We applaud and thank the CMS Accountability Office for this endeavor.

“Any challenging effort for meaningful change must begin with acknowledgement of hard truths,” the report says. “Thus, this report… seeks to provide a solid, data-based picture of our schools with the most recent data available.”

While some of the … continue reading

Heart Math Tutoring Featured on Spectrum News for Giving Tuesday

Emily Elliott from Heart Math Tutoring was featured on Spectrum News Charlotte to discuss how community members can give back on Giving Tuesday by signing up to tutor students in high-poverty schools. 

“Our program solely runs on volunteer time. We’ve been so fortunate that 950 people have signed up to be volunteer tutors but there are 45 more students who need volunteer tutors. That one hour a week means so much to students who just need an adult to give them one on one attention … continue reading

Heart Math Tutoring Featured on WBTV

Emily Elliott from Heart Math Tutoring was on WBTV News to discuss Heart’s annual Volunteer Recruitment Drive.

“We are going to need about 1,000 volunteers this fall, growing from 750 last year. The tutors do a great job helping kids build skills and confidence,” says Elliott. “In Charlotte, 56% of economically disadvantaged students are not performing on grade level and that number grows as the course level gets more difficult. Algebra is a high school graduation requirement and to be able to access any post-secondary … continue reading