HIGH SCHOOL | Grades 9–12
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Tutoring Center
Trained volunteers serve as one-to-one tutors and mentors with students of all levels and needs, providing individualized help to improve students’ skills and knowledge in specific subjects. The Tutoring Center is open Monday through Friday before school from 8:00 to 8:30 a.m. and after school from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. in the CRLS library. To be matched with a tutor, a student should complete CSV’s online request form. Students may also be referred by a teacher, guidance counselor, or caregiver.
Drop-in math or science tutoring is available before school, Monday through Friday, from 8:00 to 8:30 a.m. in the CRLS library. Tutors are available to work with students either individually or in small groups during this time.
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Classroom Collaborators
CSV partners with individual educators to recruit and place classroom volunteers.
Volunteers provide assistance with individual and small group instruction. The role of a classroom volunteer includes helping students stay on task, monitoring classwork, and facilitating discussions. As a result, many classroom volunteers become an integral part of the classroom community.
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College & Career Mentoring Program (CCMP)
In the fall, volunteers help high school seniors with post-secondary preparation, including the college application process, job readiness, and gap year program research. During the winter scholarship season, volunteers help students identify and complete scholarship applications in collaboration with Workforce and other partners. The program shifts to assist juniors with their post-secondary plans in the spring. Throughout the year, SAT and ACT prep are offered to juniors and seniors. The program meets in the College and Career Resource Center on Wednesdays from 3:15 to 4:15 pm. Students may also request to have a mentor work with them before or after school in the Tutoring Center.
Luz-Margarita’s Story
A few years ago, college sophomore Luz-Margarita came back to her alma mater, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS), the city’s public high school, to speak to CRLS seniors about the college admissions process. She emphasized the importance of asking for help, and in particular, she highlighted the role of a mentor who helped her every step of the way through the admissions maze. She worked with her mentor—a volunteer in CSV’s College & Career Mentoring Program—over a period of months, once or twice a week, after school at CRLS. Luz-Margarita applied for and earned three different scholarships with the help of her mentor, Anne. You can see Luz-Margarita talk here about how Anne made a difference for her.
With Anne’s support, Luz-Margarita wrote her college essays about her cultural tradition celebrating a girl’s transition to womanhood through an event known as a quinceañera. Another essay described how she found her passion for a career in Information Technology thanks to the Rindge School of Technical Arts Program. She also wrote supplemental scholarship essays explaining her growth during her high school career and how she managed to balance a demanding practice schedule as a student athlete with maintaining her grades. Luz-Margarita achieved honor roll or high honor roll every quarter at CRLS.
She is thriving, majoring in Information Systems and Analytics with a minor in Sociology. She is also now giving back herself as a mentor to incoming freshmen students at Bryant as an Orientation Leader.