HIGH SCHOOL | Grades 9–12
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Tutoring Center
Trained volunteers serve as one-to-one tutors and mentors with students of all levels and needs, providing individualized help to improve students’ skills and knowledge in specific subjects. The Tutoring Center is open Monday through Friday before school from 8:00 to 8:30 a.m. in room 2403 and after school from 3:15 to 4:30 p.m. in room 2407. Students may request tutoring by filling out an online form or may be referred by a teacher, guidance counselor, or caregiver.
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Academic Support Classes
Teachers and guidance counselors at CRLS assign a small number of students to academic support classes in the CSV Tutoring Center at CRLS during the school day for credit-bearing individualized academic support services, based on their needs in particular subjects, for one or more semesters.
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Classroom Assistants
CSV partners with individual educators to recruit and place classroom volunteers.
Volunteers provide assistance with individual and small group instruction. The role of a classroom volunteer includes helping students stay on task, monitoring classwork, and facilitating discussions. As a result, many classroom volunteers become an integral part of the classroom community.
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College & Career Mentoring Program (CCMP)
In the fall, volunteers help high school seniors with post-secondary preparation, including the college application process, job readiness, and gap year program research. During the winter scholarship season, volunteers help students identify and complete scholarship applications in collaboration with Workforce and other partners. The program shifts to assist juniors with their post-secondary plans in the spring. Throughout the year, SAT and ACT prep are offered to juniors and seniors. The program meets in the College and Career Resource Center on Wednesdays from 3:15 to 4:15 pm. Students may also request to have a mentor work with them before or after school in the Tutoring Center.
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Drop-In Math
Any CRLS or HSEP student may come for drop-in math or science support before school, Monday through Friday, between 8:00 and 8:30 a.m. in room 2403. Tutors are available to work with students either individually or in small groups during this time.
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Science Olympiad
Volunteer scientists and engineers advise groups of two or three students who are part of the high school student team in the statewide Science Olympiad competition. These mentors help students with research and problem-solving, serve as a sounding board during the team’s preparation period, and help foster careers and promote the educational goals of STEM. The Science Olympiad team meets from November through mid-March, after school.
Luz-Margarita’s Story
A few years ago, college sophomore Luz-Margarita came back to her alma mater, Cambridge Rindge and Latin School (CRLS), the city’s public high school, to speak to CRLS seniors about the college admissions process. She emphasized the importance of asking for help, and in particular, she highlighted the role of a mentor who helped her every step of the way through the admissions maze. She worked with her mentor—a volunteer in CSV’s College & Career Mentoring Program—over a period of months, once or twice a week, after school at CRLS. Luz-Margarita applied for and earned three different scholarships with the help of her mentor, Anne. You can see Luz-Margarita talk here about how Anne made a difference for her.
With Anne’s support, Luz-Margarita wrote her college essays about her cultural tradition celebrating a girl’s transition to womanhood through an event known as a quinceañera. Another essay described how she found her passion for a career in Information Technology thanks to the Rindge School of Technical Arts Program. She also wrote supplemental scholarship essays explaining her growth during her high school career and how she managed to balance a demanding practice schedule as a student athlete with maintaining her grades. Luz-Margarita achieved honor roll or high honor roll every quarter at CRLS.
She is thriving, majoring in Information Systems and Analytics with a minor in Sociology. She is also now giving back herself as a mentor to incoming freshmen students at Bryant as an Orientation Leader.