Tutoring is ON!

Guess what?

The Champlain College Work-Study Each One Reach One tutors started yesterday, which means 2 things:

1. The kids are psyched.

and

2. My office looks like this right now:

Don't worry, though. This is what the kids and tutors saw when they entered the board room for their match-up meeting:

Doesn't it look super-organized? Each tutoring pair keeps track of their work in a journal - that's what the colorful journals are for. Many of the youth have been in the tutoring program for three years now, and since their journals follow them, they have these great documents of all their hard work for three years.

The blue binders have phonics and math work in them. Each binder is different, set up to match that youth's reading level and math level. The tutoring pairs work on homework completion first, and then afterwards, they use the binder to help develop reading and math skills.

And, that stack of papers? That's the contract that the kids sign. It pretty much says, "I will be prepared for tutoring, and I will work hard while I'm at tutoring."

But, organized-schmorganized! What does the room look like when it gets fun because the youth and tutors are in there? Here it is:

And, after we had our snack (if you've never had rice cakes with cream cheese, you totally need to try it), here's what tutoring looked like:

And that's why yesterday was one of my favorite days of the year.