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Empowering students to succeed in school and life by providing them with trusted relationships, tutoring, and mentoring by inspired community members

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Empowering students to succeed. Inspiring Minds is a non-profit education agency founded in 1963 to provide academic support for the…

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Background Inspiring Minds focuses much of its efforts on our youngest students because reading proficiently by the end of third…

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Inspiring Minds4 days ago

In celebration of National Mentor Month, we’d like to highlight some of our amazing volunteers and the work that they do! First up is Anne Gould, pictured after virtually tutoring and mentoring in Ms. Dastoli’s 2nd Grade class in the PVLA! Anne has been volunteering with IM since Fall 2018.

Anne says, “I always wanted to work with children. I’d see them in the daycare of the Nickerson Community Center, where I worked, but I was too busy in the office. After a couple of years being retired, I decided to volunteer with Inspiring Minds because I liked the name and the way it’s structured—how you can get into a classroom and all of the arranging is done by the organization.”

As for her favorite part of volunteering? Anne says, “I like helping students with their academic assignments, any sort of little breakthrough: spelling, english verbal communication, sentence structure. It’s just great! When I see myself on the virtual screen, I’m always smiling more than usual when I’m with the kids.”

Anne also shares: “In my first year, a student was really behind in reading and other things. We’d help him every week and I got to know him and his personality, and he would respond by writing little notes to me like, ‘Hi Miss Anne, thank you for helping me!’ What’s better than that?”

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Inspiring Minds6 days ago

So many coats for Virtual Learning Students! Parents, stop by PCTA to pick up a coat. Today until 12:30 and tomorrow 2:30-6:30.

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Inspiring Minds1 week ago

Inspiring Minds volunteers are helping Providence Public Schools distribute coats to PVLA students today, tomorrow, and Thursday!

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