A Symposium on Peer Tutoring - March 7th 2013, Oakland CA
Using Peer Tutoring to Build Literacy and School Community
Thursday March 7th, 3:00pm - 6:00pm
Bender Room, Carnegie Hall, Mills College
I. Outcomes
- Understand impact of peer tutoring on literacy and school climate
- Understand promising practices and strategies for peer tutoring
- Learn how to apply practices and strategies at your site or in your classroom
- Collect tools (materials, curricula, models) to use at your site or in your classroom
- Identify practices and tools that will help you use peer tutoring at your site/classroom
- Welcome and Introduction
- Alison Feldman, Education Program Associate, Urban Strategies Council
II. The Power of Peer Tutoring as an Instructional and Community Building Strategy
- Mary Hurley, Social Emotional Learning Coordinator, OUSD
III. Promising Practices & Methodologies for Peer Tutoring
- Janie Naranjo-Hall, Bilingual class teacher, former literacy coach, Brookfield Elementary School, OUSD
- Robbie Torney, Kindergarten teacher, Lighthouse Community Charter School, OUSD
IV. Training Peer Tutors to Impact Literacy
V. Peer Tutoring Table Topics
- Using peer tutoring to support students who struggle academically – Barbara Pearl
- Using peer tutoring to impact social-emotional outcomes – Matthew Hulse, Rany Ath
- Using peer tutoring to impact literacy in school day and after school settings –Janie Naranjo-Hall
- Using peer tutoring to improve school climate – Robbie Torney, Demetria Huntsmen, Youth Alive Program Manager; Youth Alive leaders Jennifer Almendarez and Maira Lopez
This event is sponsored by the R.A.D. Schwartz Foundation and is a collaboration of the Schwartz Foundation, Urban Strategies Council, and the Oakland Unified School District.