MTC conducted an essay contest open to all high school senior mentees. It was a very difficult decision as there were many excellent essays submitted. The winner is….Scarlette who won a MacBook Pro laptop. In her winning essay, she shared how her mentor, Midge, supported her throughout high school and helped her prepare for this…
“Being a mentee this year has been a great experience! This is the first time I’ve ever had a mentor and I’ve loved it so far. My whole life I’ve always been scared to talk to adults who weren’t in my immediate family, but this experience has really helped open me up and improved my…
Forty years ago Silke Gulrich opened a school with the goal of helping adults learn English as a second language. Now, recently retired, she’s focusing on helping young readers as a volunteer tutor with MTC. “I’m so grateful to have students to work with,” said Silke when asked about her busy schedule tutoring three local…
Relationships lead to academic growth and so much more We’ve been having internal conversations here at MTC about the upcoming year. What is the role of tutors and mentors as students return from an extraordinarily disruptive year? We are challenging the idea of ‘making up for lost time.’ Instead of putting even more pressure on…
MTC is now on the social media map thanks to former mentee Andrea Halsted. Andrea graduated from MVHS in 2018 and is currently a communications major at Foothill College. Eager to apply her social media skills to a local nonprofit, she was challenged with finding the right fit. Fortunately, her search included a regular meet-up with her former…
The pandemic and its corollary, social isolation, has literally arrested the development of adolescents, explained Kathy Hartley, retired LASD school psychologist, at a recent roundtable for MTC tutors. This is the time when middle schoolers should start to break away from parents and connect with their peers, a process that has been drastically impacted over…
