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Announcements brought to you by Cultural Bridges of St. Joseph, a committee of Central Minnesota Community Empowerment Organization. We are dedicated to ease your transition into our community.
by Dave Leitzman
Not long ago I overheard one of our Homework Helper tutors working with a kindergartner during one of our after-school help sessions.
“Should we begin with the alphabet? Can you remember the letters we worked on?”
“A…B…C…mmm…D…uh…”
“What comes after D?”
“Umm…A?”
“Are you sure? A…B…C…D…and…?”
“Umm…B?”
“Let’s look at the alphabet cards again to see if we can find what comes after D.”
Conversations like this take place from 4:30-6 p.m on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday afternoons in a classroom at the College of St. Benedict. Homework Helpers was developed by St. Joseph’s Cultural Bridges and is supported by the College of St. Benedict and the CSB/SJU Education Department.
College students join volunteers from the larger community to support the work of classroom teachers by helping children enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade understand and complete their homework assignments. While most of the children we work with are enrolled at Kennedy Community School, others join us from area middle and high schools.
Serving as a tutor provides unique opportunities to help a child acquire important knowledge, skills and values that will support and perhaps enhance school success in the years ahead. Those who serve as tutors also enable children to learn more about the people who together form our larger community.
Marlys Pennertz, a member of Cultural Bridges, found that tutoring for Homework Helpers “is a wonderful opportunity to get to work with students and to make a positive difference in their lives. It’s a lot of fun and the kids are wonderful. I also like that you can work one, two, or three afternoons a week depending upon your schedule.”
Community members seeking to make a difference in the lives of our children as a Homework Helper may learn more about our efforts by contacting David Leitzman via email at dleitzman@csbsju.edu.
If you have any questions, please contact Juliana Howard at 715-791-8976 or Jamal Elmi at 320-310-2351.
College of St. Benedict student Megan Youngstrom helps a student during a Homework Helpers session.
