Job Opportunities

In order to realize our dream of Closing the Academic Gap, we need the support of community members who have the ability and the drive to guide our students to bright and successful futures.

As an Academic Coach or Volunteer Coordinator you will receive a $240 stipend each week for 16 hours of direct service and 4 hours of training each week. At the end of your service you will have the opportunity to receive a $2,300 education award that you can apply to your own education.

Interviews for Academic Coaches and Volunteer Coordinators are scheduled various times throughout April, May and June.

Blueprint for the Beloved Community:
Change the Future

In 2002, 475 students from the Ravenswood City School District entered ninth grade in the Sequoia Union High School District. Of those, only 27 percent passed the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) and graduated with the class of 2006. By contrast, the Sequoia Union High School District has a much higher graduation rate. This reveals deep educational inequities between students from the Ravenswood District and the Sequoia District's more affluent feeder school districts.

Help Close the Academic Gap

The Built to Last Collaborative in Menlo Park, CA was awarded a three-year AmeriCorps grant by the California Volunteer Commission to develop a strategy for Closing the Academic Gap. Through surveys and phone interviews with members of the 2006 graduating class, the Collaborative has identified academic coaching and tutoring as a viable means of boosting the graduation rate.

The core values of the Built to Last Collaborative are based on what Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. called the "beloved community." The Built to Last Collaborative will create, support and work within a beloved community in which people from all walks of life work together, side by side to increase high school graduation rates of young people at risk of failing to graduate from high school.

Description of Service Activities
& Academic Coaches/Tutors Roles

The Built to Last Collaborative will recruit and train 36 BTLC Academic Coaches and four Volunteer Coordinators. BTLC/AmeriCorps Academic Coaches will be trained to work in direct service as tutors and provide academic coaching to targeted students. Each Academic Coach will be responsible for reinforcing classroom instruction for up to 10 high school students at one of four Sequoia Union High School sites. The High Schools are Carlmont H.S., Woodside H.S., Sequoia H.S., and Menlo/Atherton H.S.

BTLC will recruit and train four BTLC/AmeriCorps Volunteer Coordinators. BTLC Volunteer Coordinators will recruit and manage a team of volunteers who will supplement the core tutoring program with additional services, such as organizing parent involvement and providing translation services for parents.

More Information

Contact Us

Phone: (650) 330-2259
BTLC @ Onetta Harris Community Center
100 Terminal Avenue
Menlo Park, CA 94025

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