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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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Inspiring Minds4 days ago

Thank you to all of our volunteers for helping provide students with extra support during the first 100 days of this crazy school year! You’re amazing!

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Inspiring Minds1 week ago

Our Volunteer of the Month is…drum roll, please…Beth Fay! Beth was nominated by Ms. Chek, a 2nd grade ESL teacher, who she has been volunteering with for multiple years.

Beth shares: “Ms. Chek is an ESL teacher, so her students often don’t speak English. They are wonderful kids—they’re happy, they want to learn, and they come from a variety of backgrounds… In a normal year, within 6 months they’re speaking English and it’s amazing to see that.”

“If one child doesn’t understand something, another will explain in Spanish what’s going on. So they really help each other, they’re very supportive, and they love being in school. And it’s such a joy to be around them.”

Beth says, “Everyone remembers a teacher that was supportive or friendly or instrumental in inspiring you to push yourself and to learn. For me, I think it was my second grade teacher. She was older, she was tiny, she was ancient! But she was kind and generous and she really cared. And I remember her distinctly.”

As for beginning her volunteer experience with Inspiring Minds, Beth says, “I’ll admit I was a little nervous and even scared at first. I didn’t know how to tutor or how it would be, but it’s been really great.”

If you’d like to make a meaningful impact on children’s lives, volunteer with us! We will support you the whole way.

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Inspiring Minds is at Alfred Lima Sr.ElementarySchool.2 weeks ago

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Alfred Lima Sr.ElementarySchool

Our volunteers are working hard to distribute Creativity Kits to PVLA elementary students! Make sure to stop by tomorrow from 9am-12pm to grab your kits if you haven’t already (snow permitting)!

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