More than forty peer tutors will provide much-needed support in CSV's upper school Learning Centers and the Tutoring Center at CRLS.

The 2024 Volunteer Recognition Awards were held on Thursday, April 4. We honored our network of more than 650 volunteers, including the university and corporate partners that send teams of volunteers into Cambridge classrooms. The evening consisted of amazing student performances and speakers, as well as delicious food provided by students in the culinary program of the Rindge School of Technical Arts at CRLS! Check out our award winners…

Thanks to the intrepid teams of Kendall Square companies and to the Kendall Square Association for making the Kendall Square Challenge a benefit for organizations like Cambridge School Volunteers. See you next year!

Cambridge School Volunteers (CSV) is one of 150 local nonprofits that will share in $30 million through Cummings Foundation’s major annual grants program. The Cambridge-based organization was selected from a total of 630 applicants during a competitive review process. CSV will receive $25,000 annually for the next three years.

You can still help CSV meet its year-end fundraising goals by visiting the auction and placing a bid, or by a donation made securely on our web site.

DJ Beshkan provides the music. Philips provides the fantastic terrace view. You and your friends who attend help make CSV’s work possible.

Two MIT graduate students were the winners of this year’s Mack I. Davis II awards. Volunteers marking milestones included Sarah May of Volpe US Dot, a 25-year volunteer in Cambridge School Volunteers’ Reading Buddies program at Kennedy-Longfellow School in East Cambridge.

Dr. Joanna Christodoulou studied “Summer Slide” earlier in her career. Her focus is on on brain plasticity. The factors that lead to gaps in reading scores among children prior to the pandemic are many of the same ones that have contributed to “Covid Slide.” She gave CSV volunteers a peek into what researchers know at our workshop in January 2023.

This fall, eight members of Harvard University's women's golf team tutored students at CSV's Learning Centers at Putnam Ave Upper School and Rindge Ave Upper School.

Researchers who study math anxiety know that it interferes with learning. But what is the cause of math anxiety, and why does it affect some people more than others? What can tip the balance for a math learner towards success?