Category: Life at Saga

Geontay Wise takes his lunch break (his favorite is sausage pizza) with a side of Algebra. The 11th grade student from Bogan High School in Chicago, IL has been a part of Saga Education’s high-impact tutoring program for two years, and now gets tutored on his own time—during lunch—just because he likes it.

Wendy Haines is a Partner at New Profit, a venture philanthropy organization that invests in breakthrough social entrepreneurs.

Saga Education sat down with Lindsay Lopez, an AmeriCorps member in Broward County (FL), to talk about what it's really like to serve with 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.