Contact: Phone: (408) 874-3200, Fax: (408) 379-3726

Need -Teacher's assistant and before and after school tutors. Interested parties should send a fax or email (bstark@moreland.k12.ca.us) the principal, Bitsey Stark, with volunteer interests. Offers will be posted on a bulletin and volunteers will be contacted by the teachers.

Contact: Phone: (408) 928-7100, Fax (408) 928-7101 Dr. Frances A. Ridgley, Principal

Need -Strong need for volunteers to tutor illiterate kids, and also for math tutors. Tutoring hours held before and after school (7:30am-8:15am &2:15pm - 4pm). Volunteers will first be assessed in their ability to tutor, and if necessary will be trained (2 - 4hr sessions held on the weekend). Interested volunteers should contact the principal directly.

Each of the Redwood City Schools listed below would welcome mentors and tutors... and the new McKinley Institute of Technology now called MIT, would be overjoyed to have real MIT alumnae come to assist students with learning. The principals of schools with mostly Spanish populations, said they would be delighted to have adults join them in any capacity -- to play pick-up basketball at lunchtime, to read with students, to explore science with them, to work with small groups of children, whether remedial or gifted. All the schools would appreciate guest speakers for Career Day, volunteers to teach after school and intercession enrichment classes (science, inventorship - whatever you love), Adelante School needs help organizing/mentoring a science fair and volunteers to help them enter the Lego Robotics Competition next year. If you have a passion -- with technology, without it, anything with educational value -- the principals would like to hear from you! The the website ! to read more information about each school is: http://www.rcsd.k12.ca.us/schools.htm

The schools include (name, magnet theme, contact info):

Contact: 650-366-8415

Contact: website http:\\www.friendsforyouth.org, or call Elsy Arevalo, (650) 482-2867.

Notes: The program matches adults with kids from South San Francisco to Sunnyvale on the peninsula. The program involves a 4-hour training program for new mentors. Each mentor will then be assigned a Counselor, who monitors the relationship throughout the program. The people running the program will also help set up one-time events if people don't have time to mentor, e.g. a Science Day Workshop. They ask for a12-month relationship for new tutors. Some kids need specific tutoring help, but many are just looking for friends/mentors without a tutoring component.

Boys & Girls Club of the Peninsula, 3 separate facilities respectively serving lower economic areas of Redwood City, Menlo Park, and East Palo Alto.

Contact: Dinnie Petrosian, Phone: (650)322-6255

After school program Monday-Friday:

You can volunteer to tutor at any time slot you choose of at least 90 minutes, 2 days/week within the above time ranges. They will arrange for the kids to be there at whatever time works for you. A 4th program for the brightest students in grades 2-8 is called "Center for a New Generation" and meets at Menlo Oaks School. Most kids currently are middle and elementary school age. Dinnie would be happy to start a tutoring program for high school kids if a couple of us volunteer.

Menlo Park/ East Palo Alto
Menlo-Atherton High School Serves East Palo Alto and Menlo Park

Several distinct programs need tutors. For general questions, call Sue Kayton
650-853-1711 kayton@alum.mit.edu

AVID:
Contact Marei Kane, office 650-322-5311 x8672, mkane@seq.org
Marei has 22 10-th graders who want to be the first in their families
to go to college. She has two tutors and could use 2 or 3 more on a regular
once-a-week basis. The class meets Thursday 8:00 - 9:20 and Tuesday 7:50 - 8:45.

AFTER-SCHOOL TUTORING:
Contact Jeff Chin-Sell 650-322-5311 x8682, jsell@seq.org
The drop-in center hours are Mon and Tues 2:30 - 4:30, Wed and Thurs 1:30 - 4:15.
No commitment needed - just show up when you can. Especially need help in math
at all levels.

ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE
Wednesday morning 8:00 - 9:15. Work one-on-one with English learners.
Semester commitment preferred.

TUTORS AND MENTORS FOR AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDENTS
Contact Irene St. Roseman, riseirene@hotmail.com,
One-year commitment preferred.
Tutoring is Tuesday 1:25-2:15 and Wednesday 2:30-3:30.
RISE tutoring web page (below the section on Mentoring):
http://www.mabears.org and go to Parents/RISE

Eastside College Preparatory

Contact: Chris Bischof, Director Eastside School, 2101 Pulgas Avenue, East Palo Alto, CA 94303
Phone: (650) 688-0850, Fax: (650) 688-0859 , website: http:\\www.eastside.org

Notes: Chris is a great guy and we were impressed at both his devotion to what he does and his efficacy at doing a good job with it.

Public school districts and their info are available on their respective websites. It's probably easiest for an interested party to call the school directly to inquire about possible tutoring opportunities.

Contact: www.backontracksf.org

Notes:

Contact: Marianne Seiki or Jerry Pelletier (415)291-7900

Notes: Have "Career Days" when they ask mentors to speak about career choices, etc. Also have a need for one-on-one tutoring.

Contact: Eve Gorton (415) 442-7201

Notes: Already have an after school tutoring program in place, urgent need for more one-on-one mentoring. The current program runs every day from 3:15 to 4:45 except Wed.

Contact: Karen Law (415) 291-7924