Community Office Hours, Zoom/Dusk Edition
Cambridge School Volunteers welcomes members of the public to a series of community office hours in November. The virtual sessions will be offered on Sundays from 4:30 to 5:00 on Zoom. The sessions will coincide with the end of daylight saving time, which begins with clocks turned back one hour at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday, November 1. On that day, the sun will set
Information Session
Join our director of recruitment and communications for a Zoom primer on what Cambridge School Volunteers does, whom we serve, and how you can be a part of successful school experience for the city’s children and young people. There will be time for questions. Zoom information will be sent 24-48 hours in advance when you sign up on our Google form at the link.
Information Session
Join our director of recruitment and communications for a Zoom primer on what Cambridge School Volunteers does, whom we serve, and how you can be a part of successful school experience for the city’s children and young people. There will be time for questions. Zoom information will be sent 24-48 hours in advance to those who sign up on our Google form at the
Information Session
Join our director of recruitment and communications for a Zoom primer on what Cambridge School Volunteers does, whom we serve, and how you can be a part of successful school experience for the city’s children and young people. There will be time for questions. Zoom information will be sent 24-48 hours in advance when you sign up on our Google form at the link.
Information Session
Join our director of recruitment and communications for a Zoom primer on what Cambridge School Volunteers does, whom we serve, and how you can be a part of successful school experience for the city’s children and young people. There will be time for questions. Zoom information will be sent 24-48 hours in advance when you sign up on our Google form at the link.
Kickoff Orientation
Please pre-register for our kickoff orientation to be come a volunteer this school year. Additional orientations will be scheduled after Sept. 24th.
Volunteers on Volunteering
Does volunteering have a positive impact on volunteers themselves? Numerous health research studies have given more and more weight to the beneficial effects of volunteering on mental and physical health, life satisfaction, social well-being and depression. How do Cambridge School Volunteers perceive their experience? CSV’s volunteers range from engineers, young professionals, retired teachers, and STEM doctoral candidates to members of local undergraduate athletic teams
A New NetPals Director
Having taught middle school immediately after leaving college and parenting four students in the Cambridge Public Schools, Cambridge School Volunteers’ new NetPals director is thoroughly steeped in experience with these critical years of adolescence. Meg Ramsdell accepted the position as director of CSV’s NetPals program in early October, after serving for two years as a program coordinator for NetPals and Learning Centers, another upper
K-8 Volunteer Orientation
Come to an orientation to learn about volunteering in a Cambridge Public School in any grade from Kindergarten to Grade 8. We need classroom assistants, literacy volunteers, library assistants, and especially after-school tutors (Grades 6–8). Pre-registration required.
Cultural Humility Workshop for CSV Volunteers (Evening)
Learn from the field of social work! Our graduate student interns from the BU School of Social work will lead this workshop on cultural humility, a practice of increasing self-awareness of biases and perceptions, and how this practice can affect your volunteer work with students. Gender, age, and race will be discussed.