Scholarships

Tutorpedia Foundation Scholarship Applications are now being accepted!  The deadline is September 1, 2012.  Our committee will set up interviews with students for the month of September, and award scholarships for the 2011-2012 school year this October; tutoring will start no later than November 1, 2012.

Tutorpedia has given away over 20 individual tutoring scholarships since 2009, providing over 500 hours of free one-on-one tutoring to youth in San Francisco, Berkeley, Oakland, and East Palo Alto.

To be eligible for a Tutorpedia Scholarship, students must:

  • Demonstrate an academic need for tutoring (either by their latest report card, teacher recommendation, or STAR scores)
  • Demonstrate a financial need for free tutoring (either by verification of financial aid or receiving free/reduced lunch)
  • Complete the Scholarship Application Form
  • Write an essay answering the question: Why do you want a tutor?
  • Provide a letter of recommendation from a teacher, counselor, or principal, as evidence for academic need
  • Provide a letter of recommendation from a parent/guardian, as evidence for financial need
  • Be able to commit to approximately one hour every week to tutoring from October to June (three unexcused absences will result in the revocation of your scholarship).

Students apply to receive one hour of free tutoring every week throughout the school year – approximately 30 hours of one-on-one academic support. Tutors help with homework, test preparation, study skills, and organizational strategies. All tutoring is aligned with California State Standards and grounded in the latest cognitive research about how we learn best. Most importantly, all tutoring is student-centered: Our tutors focus each session on the individual needs and goals of each student.

While raising grades and test scores are common goals of the tutoring experience, they are not the only goals. Tutorpedia’s tutors emphasize the intrinsic value of learning and help students find meaning and relevance in their education. Tutorpedia believes that if students are focused on the journey, rather than the end product, improved grades, test scores, and college acceptance letters will naturally follow.

Download the Tutorpedia Foundation Scholarship Application*


*Please note that the Workshop proposal form and the Workshop Lesson Plan template utilize fillable forms in an Adobe PDF document.  You'll need the latest version of Adobe reader in order to use this document, which you can download using hte link above. Mac Users: Please do NOT fill this form out in Mac's Preview. Preview will cause some data to be lost. Use Adobe Reader instead. Thanks!