L’Oreal Woman of Worth Award 2012
L’Oreal Paris’ Women of Worth Awards honored our Executive Director, Catherine Meek, for her work with a $10,000 donation to School On Wheels in December 2012. Click here to view …
Tutoring Solutions: Advice and Tips to Suit your Student’s Needs #1
This workshop served as a question and answer session for tutors seeking assistance in helping their student. We shared ideas, strategies, methods and accommodations for students in varying grades and …
Taking the Struggle out of Teaching Basic Math
This workshop reviewed some basic strategies for School on Wheels tutors to help their student understand the concepts behind the four basic operations of adding, subtracting, long division, multi-digit multiplication, …
Building Connections with Group Foster Home and Runaway Teens
Tutors learned how to help students at group homes feel safe and build a stronger connection as well as advocate for the needs of their students. The presentation covers the …
A Positive Approach to Tutoring
Educational Psychologist and School on Wheels tutor, Michael Geisser, provided many practical strategies to encourage positive behavior during tutoring. At the workshop, School on Wheels tutors were able to share …
Turning Obstacles into Opportunities
This workshop was an open discussion where School on Wheels tutors could discuss problems, learn from mistakes, and work towards solutions. Many common obstacles like teacher and parent communication, motivating …
How to Motivate the Unmotivated
All students are born with the internal desire to learn . . . through conditioning, many have learned to become unmotivated. It is our job as tutors to get them …
Empowering Students Towards Success
This online workshop hosted by School on Wheels and former tutor and PhD candidate Jason Rarick presented an opportunity for tutors to engage in an informal discussion on the value …
Workshop Library
Every month, School on Wheels hosts educational workshops for tutors on topics varying from tutoring tips and techniques to behavior and motivation. You can browse our previous workshop recordings and …
Minerva Award 2009
In 2009, our founder, Agnes Stevens, received the Minerva Award which has become the country’s most prestigious award given to women “who serve on the front-lines of humanity.”