Saturday, September 4, 2010

Surrogate Room Parents Help Teacher and Kids

August 7, 2009 by Rob  
Filed under Uncategorized

A group of friends from Bay Light Community Church decided to “adopt” a classroom at Castro Elementary School in Mountain View and partner with the teacher to support her students.  95% of this teacher’s 5th Grade students were English language learners from low income families. Various friends helped students in morning math club, they chaperoned field trips, [...]

Luther Burbank Middle to Archbishop Mitty High School

August 7, 2009 by Rob  
Filed under BLOG, Mentoring News

The impossible is possible when catalysts and “impossible” situations collide.  One of our board members (aka—RP Mover) teaches at Luther Burbank Middle School in San Jose.  After seeing many of his brightest students transition to the local gang impacted high schools, he had an idea.  A few weeks later, four of his students summoned their [...]