Category: Life at Saga

When 9th grader Siraye Maximin first walked into a Saga math tutorial, a class during the school day, she didn’t know what to expect. “I was nervous and excited.” She admitted that while she got good grades in math in grade school, somehow, she got lost along the way.

As a Saga Fellow, we go through an extensive training program focused on the best ways to teach and build relationships with our students. What I didn’t expect was that I would learn four key life lessons from them.

For many tutors and aspiring teachers, becoming the best educator is a top priority. While there are many avenues to their tutoring skills, a service year with Saga Education gives an in-depth, hands-on experience that will set them up for a lifetime success in their teaching career. Saga fellows can be part of the fight for educational inequality by helping  underserved students who need critical math support.

In June, The COVID Collaborative and Walton Family Foundation launched the #TurnThePageProject, an initiative to explore what the future of education looks like with the doers, thinkers and learners at the heart of it.

Over the last 7 years, together we have shown what is possible with high-dose, in-school tutoring. Moreover, we have shown that for historically underrepresented youth, high-school is not too late.

Saga Education is pleased to announce three new members of its national governing board—Karin Apollon, Kassie Davis and Julia Quinn--bringing the Board’s total size to 10 voting members and four senior advisors.