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.

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).

In the United States, there is enormous potential to close longstanding opportunity gaps through the scale-up of evidence-based programs. We are grateful for organizations like J-PAL North America and the University of Chicago Urban Education Labs for helping us to understand our impact.