Linda Grace Fisher
BA ’16, Organizational Studies
This project will provide resources for tutors in Proyecto Avance: Latino Mentoring Association, a free tutoring program for members of Washtenaw County’s Latino community. The purpose of this project is to find and provide access to academic, ESL, and culturally-specific resources for our tutors. Our tutors have demonstrated the need for more resources by making many requests for support relating to questions such as how to tutor students learning Common Core Math (because our generation of tutors never learned Common Core). Since our organization serves around 100 Latino students and has more than 50 tutors, this project will provide a huge benefit by enabling us to make valuable resources available to everyone in our organization. This project is unique in that it will provide students not only with basic tutoring resources but will also focus on helping tutors understand multicultural tutoring strategies they can apply when working with Latino students. Our tutoring program operates at the Ann Arbor District Library, so this program will allow us to collaborate with and combine the resources of both AADL and U-M Libraries in order to provide tutors with access to the greatest possible number of resources.
Library Mentor: Angie Oehrli