Jenks+Tutoring

Jenks Tutoring Community Service
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 The Jenks School community service is committed to enhancing the reading experience of students in kindergarten, who attend the John Story Jenks School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Each week, students from The Crefeld School, who range in age from thirteen to eighteen, meet with Jenks students and read with them. The hope is that the reading scores of the younger students will improve as the year progresses. This year we will be choosing specific books, geared to the ability level of each student and tracking the student's progress with each of these books.
 * About Jenks Tutoring**

** Goals **
 * To help kindergartner's of The Jenks School develop reading skills and a passion for reading
 * To teach the students of The Crefeld School leadership skills
 * To form meaningful relationships among all of the students
 * To research reading levels at different schools

** Our Two Schools **

 **About the Jenks School:** The John Story Jenks School i s is a K-8 elementary school located in Philadelphia's historic garden district of Chestnut Hill. The diverse group of 57 staff and 500 students form a community recognized for excellence in scholarship and true opportunity. **Here is a link to The Jenks School website:** [|John S. Jenks School]

 **About The Crefeld School:** The Crefeld School’s mission is to pioneer a progressive, alternative learning community for secondary school students. Crefeld’s primary strategies for student success are its small size and personal attention, its flexible and creative approaches to problem solving, its focus on demonstration of essential skills and knowledge, and its respect for individuals and community values. The Crefeld School strives to create a diverse community in which all members are safe, respected, and valued. Crefeld assumes that all students can learn and that all people learn differently; therefore all students must work to discover their own learning styles, build on their strengths, develop compensation strategies for their weaknesses, and become advocates for themselves as learners. **Here is a link to The Crefeld School's website:** [|The Crefeld School]

** Activities ** This year we will be developing an awareness of the reasons for and the benefits of what we are doing each week at The Jenks School. Each week Crefeld students will choose grade specific books to be read with their tutees. They will take notes about the story itself, how the tutee responded to the story, and what worked in helping the youngsters to read and what didn't. These notes will be recorded in a journal each week and, on days we don't travel to Jenks, we will record video summaries or podcasts of the experience to be displayed on this wiki. In addition, students will complete a research project about reading and the public schools as well as respond to questions posted on the Jenks School Wiki Blog

**Student Reflections** Click on one of the files below to listen to students reflections.

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**Resources** [|Philadelphia Schools]