Your Tutor S.F.

SPRING UPDATE: Your Tutor SF is happy to report that our tutoring scholarships have been going to good use!

Of the 188 hours of tutoring raised during our Fall 2013 fundraising campaign, 117 hours (or 62% of funds) have gone towards providing our services to low-income families this year. At the current schedule of 7 client sessions per week, we expect to fulfill all 188 hours by mid-May. Thank you again to everyone who has made this possible!

Great idea in Tennessee - free community college education. Let's hope the Bay Area follows suit!

Tennessee Weighs The Cost Of A Free College Education

“Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control ... They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child’s control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure.”

http://nymag.com/news/features/27840/

How Not to Talk to Your Kids The inverse power of praise.

Teaching Resolutions for the New Year, from Education Week: http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/teaching_for_triumph/2014/01/new_years_teaching_resolutions.html

New Year's Teaching Resolutions 2014 My top five teaching resolutions for 2014, including why more men should teach pre-K and why using war metaphors to describe teaching is offensive to both professions.

Did you know that TED talks also has "TED Ed"? Free video lessons for a flipped classroom, in all subjects! http://ed.ted.com/lessons

Lessons Use engaging videos on TED-Ed to create customized lessons. You can use, tweak, or completely redo any lesson featured on TED-Ed, or create lessons from scratch based on any video from YouTube.

Good news for students who struggle in math! Contrary to popular belief, some people are not "born" math/science people. Instead, success is primarily a function of exposure.

Work with Your Tutor S.F. to improve your students' math skills! We are here to help.

http://m.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/the-myth-of-im-bad-at-math/280914/

The Myth of 'I'm Bad at Math' Basic math ability isn't the product of good genes, but hard work.

Great work by all our supporters: We have one week left and we've already tipped our ultimate fundraising goal. What an inspiration!

http://startsomegood.com/Venture/your_tutor_sf/Campaigns/Show/knowledge_is_power_tutoring_for_success

Knowledge is Power: Tutoring for Success Help us provide high quality tutoring and educational opportunities for struggling students and their families!

Expanding outdoor education in SFUSD:

San Francisco schools expanding outdoor classroom program Thousands of students in 22 San Francisco elementary schools will return to class this fall with a new piece of curriculum: outdoor education. The San Francisco Unified School District began a partnership in the 2010-11 school year with Education Outside to provide instructors and curriculum at scho...

Dear Your Tutor SF supporters: we will be beginning our official fundraising campaign for the 2013-2014 school year on WEDNESDAY 8/28!

Here is a teaser video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eft3Rbke0dY

Start Some Good: Your Tutor SF 2013 Fundraising Fundraising campaign for Your Tutor SF (www.yourtutorsf.com) to provide FREE private tutoring sessions to low-income students in the San Francisco Bay Area d...

For the bookshelf! Great book recommendations from TED contributors

Top "hacks" for a successful classroom

My top 3 classroom hacks Hello Khan Academy Teachers! I’m Suney Park, Khan Academy’s Teacher-in-Residence and 6th grade teacher at Eastside College Prep. As summer ends every year, I always think about one change or ‘hack’ I...

Where does your state rank on educational policy and performance? It looks like the West Coast could use a little help.

http://www.edweek.org/ew/qc/2013/state_report_cards.html

Quality Counts 2013 - State Report Cards This interactive map offers a quick way to examine State-by-State grades and summary data. The breakdown includes Chance for Success, K-12 Achievement and other indicators.