Category: Life at Saga

With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Walton Family Foundation, and Comcast NBCUniversal, Saga Education adds innovative software company, Woot Math to serve thousands more students

Saga Education, a nonprofit that provides consistent, personalized, in-school-day math tutoring and mentoring, today announced the expansion of its tutoring program in New York City and Chicago.

We are writing to you in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the continuing Black Lives Matter protests against racial injustice and police brutality. We are saddened by the unconscionable acts of violence that have occurred against the Black community. The most recent killings of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery and Breonna Taylor have only exacerbated the historical injustices faced by Black Americans for over 400 years.

During the 2019-2020 school year, Saga AmeriCorps member, Jazmin Hernandez, served students at Little Village High School, the same school she attended while growing up in the Little Village neighborhood in Chicago. Her service experience with Saga Education gave her the opportunity to see her community through a new lens.

At Saga, we are especially grateful for many things, including the astonishing amount of work that goes on behind the scenes to replicate our work with fidelity and deliver high quality supplemental instruction. We have entire teams dedicated to improving and developing our training, curriculum and assessments, and data analysis--all so that the AmeriCorps members who serve at our school sites have the resources and the skills they will need to thrive as academic coaches and mentors.

Do you remember your first day of high school? As many of us know, it can be intimidating (i.e. walking into a new environment, attempting new challenging curriculum, introducing yourself to entirely new groups of classmates and teachers).