On June 2nd, 2016, Tutors for Kids was honored to receive the Florida Education Foundation’s 2016 Commissioner’s  Business Recognition Award for their volunteer efforts in Sumter County with Wildwood Elementary and Middle Schools. Accepting on behalf of Tutors for Kids were Tutor, Marie Elston, as well as Board Member and School Tutor Coordinator, Rhonda Casey. Also pictured is Pam Stewart, Commissioner of Education and Richard Shirley, Superintendent of Sumter County School District.

The Commissioner’s Business Recognition Awards (CBRA) program was established in 1987 by the Florida Commissioner of Education. This program recognizes businesses from around the state of Florida that have shown the most commitment, creativity and innovation in bringing about positive change to schools and school districts. The honorees are selected by each County, based on the significant impact the business partnership had on the students in a particular K-12 public school or district wide.

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Our tutors come from every walk of life. Some are educators, some are professionals, some are homemakers, some are electricians, etc. Some are retired. Some are still at work. All are volunteers.

All tutors share the same goal – to ensure that our future citizens are the best educated members of their communities. To achieve this end, each volunteer tutor makes a commitment for one school year to tutor students a minimum of once a week for a 90-minute period – many tutors do more than one 90-minute period.

During this time our tutors work with students that teachers identify as struggling in certain areas. Currently tutors work in Grades K through 5 and in one middle school Grades 6,7,8.

Primarily tutors provide help to students in reading, writing, arithmetic, and science. Often a tutor may identify that a child is having trouble in math because the student cannot read the problem. As a result this student will get tutoring in both reading and math.

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