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NORTH STAR TUTOR/MENTOR PROGRAM
CORE VALUES and OBJECTIVES
Objectives:
1. To increase the number of students on grade-level academically.
2. To increase the number of students who continue school.
3. To increase the percentage of students who graduate from high school.
4. To keep the students safe, in an after-school program, on-site.
Core Values:
1. Helping children catch up or stay up with their peers academically is
the best drop-out prevention.
2. Correcting children's academic deficits is most effective in the earliest
years of schooling.
3. Using older students as tutors expands the assistance available to students,
and helps both student and tutor.
4. Using a teacher from the student's elementary school as a coach is essential
for an effective program.
5. Engaging active management is essential to keep quality and focus high.
6. Raising tutor's self-image through helping others academically contributes
to the tutor's involvement in education, graduation rate and likelihood of
going to college.
7. Using well-trained tutors raise the students' success in academics and
increase their likelihood of graduating and going to college.
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