By Taylar Berry Staff Writer
Leadership is a program at East English Village Preparatory Academy (EEVPA) that allow students from East English to tutor students at Clark Elementary/Middle School.
Three years ago Lear Corporation CEO Matthew Simoncini, an alums of Clark, wanted to do something to improve the test scores at Clark. Since EEVPA was the closest school it was picked to participate.
“This is the only program of its kind,” said business teacher Mark Gniewek. “It allows the student tutors to get certified by The National Tutoring Association while still in high school.”
There are currently 140 students in this program. Students chosen to be a part of the program must have excellent math scores, a 2.8 GPA, good behavior, good attendance, and must undergo an interview process. Students selected for this program are often considered the leaders of the school.
They tutor grades 4-8 grade in mathematics. This program has helped the students at Clark, as well as the students at EEVPA the intense training in math and writing has also improved the scores of the student tutors.
They are improving the training of the tutoring as well as looking at data to see where the kids are less then proficient. They are hoping this method will improve the students a lot.
“This year we are training the new people harder,” said student tutor Jada Matthews. “They will be more then prepared this year.”
This is the third year this program has been at EEVPA. There has been a lot of planning behind the scenes. Lear provides support through paying for educational programs for the students such as: Buzzmath, IXL and ALEKS.
However, this is the final year of the three-year agreement unless the students at Clark show improvement. The staff has faith that the program will continue and are working extra hard to see that it does.
