BECOME AN ACADEMIC TUTOR

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Tutoring opportunities now are available for the winter and spring months of 2023 in NORTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

Instructions on how to select opportunities appear at left. Find out how to become a tutor is available when you click on the boxes at right.

You can take the first steps in becoming ether a Northfield Community Volunteer or a college work-study tutor by completing ACCELERATE NORTHFIELD‘s tutor questionnaire, which can be assessed by clicking on the “Step 1” buttton.

Once you complete the questionnaire, go the the Northfield district’s criminal background check form, which can be assessed by clicking on the “Step 2” button. All volunteers are required to complete a backkground check before entering district schools.

TUTOR OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE

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Members of the Northfield community, as well as students at Carleton and St. Olaf colleges, are invited to serve as academic tutors in NORTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS is underway.

Here is a partial list of academic support tutor opportunities available in NORTHFIELD SCHOOLS.

K-5 (ELEMENTARY SCHOOL) OPPORTUNITIES

  • Online tutor for Portage Online School
  • Math and reading stations tutor
  • Math, reading and writing support
  • Challenge Math tutor
  • Small group tutor in math and reading
  • One-on-one math and reading tutors
  • Community School tutors 

MIDDLE SCHOOL OPPORTUNITIES

  • Middle School Youth Center tutor
  • Study hall tutor

 

ACCELERATE NORTHFIELD FAQ

WHO WE ARE
ACCELERATE NORTHFIELD is a collaboration among parents, community members and organizations dedicated to improving the academic performance of local students. In other words, we help transform students into LEARNING SUPERHEROES! Its community volunteer and college work-study tutors work with students primarily in the three elementary schools in the NORTHFIELD PUBLIC SCHOOLS (Bridgewater, Greenvale Park and Spring Creek) and Northfield Middle School. 

WHAT WE DO
ACCELERATE NORTHFIELD’s job is to recruit community members to become volunteer tutors and to partner with work-study students from Carleton and St. Olaf colleges. No experience is necessary, except for a passion to help transform Northfield elementary students into LEARNING SUPERHEROES! Our tutors meet with students on an individual basis or in small groups. Tutors are asked to help out at least one hour a week.

WHY WE DO IT
The mission of ACCELERATE and its volunteers to work toward the success for ALL students, regardless of color, ethnicity, economic status, belief system or gender. We were established to help Northfield’s achievement gap. The achievement gap is the differences in academic performance between groups of students. (CLICK HERE to read more about the achievement gap in Minnesota.)

HOW WERE WE FOUNDED
ACCELERATE — brainchild of longtime Northfield education advocates Fritz Bogott and Rachel Matney — was founded during the 2011-2012 school year. Relying on the partners like the Reads and Counts program at Carleton and St. Olaf colleges and from community tutors, ACCELERATE and its volunteers contributed more than 24,000 volunteer hours that first year. The program started with a three-prong educational philosophy: intensive one-one reading, reading support and enrichment challenge for high-achieving students. The following year, ACCELERATE began focusing on tutoring students at risk of falling into the achievement gap. Its efforts got a boost from a three-year VISTA grant, which provided funding for a staff member to help administer the program. In subsequent years, ACCELERATE tutors have annually contributed thousands of hours of volunteer tutoring.