VOICE Mentoring
Through the Issaquah Schools Foundation, the Volunteers of Issaquah Changing Education (VOICE) is an in-school volunteer program, pairs caring community members with Issaquah School District students in need of extra support.
VOICE volunteers work as a mentor/tutor one-on-one with a student for one-hour-per-week throughout the school year. Emphasis has been placed on mentors’ understanding of confidentiality. Mentors meet with students on the school campus during school hours or during other school-authorized activities ONLY. The district does not authorize out-or-school contact.
In this mentoring process, students come to know new role models who care enough to volunteer time to help someone they’ve never met. Also, through the mentoring process, VOICE students’ learning improves. Some students became better readers or more successful in math. Mentors and students alike come away enriched by this shared experience. Mentors know they have made a positive difference in the life of an Issaquah student, and the student’s academic skills not only improve but they welcome the bond created with their mentor. Schools staff also report how mentors are truly making a difference in the lives of the students academically and socially with their weekly contact.
Mentors would work with Mentees at the Elementary level.
Here is the link to the online application process.
http://voicementorprogram.org/become-a-mentor/
VOICE Director, Susan Gierke at 425-837-6801 or [email protected]
VOICE Coordinator at Liberty: Vicki Kenney, LHS Counselor, [email protected]
VOICE volunteers work as a mentor/tutor one-on-one with a student for one-hour-per-week throughout the school year. Emphasis has been placed on mentors’ understanding of confidentiality. Mentors meet with students on the school campus during school hours or during other school-authorized activities ONLY. The district does not authorize out-or-school contact.
In this mentoring process, students come to know new role models who care enough to volunteer time to help someone they’ve never met. Also, through the mentoring process, VOICE students’ learning improves. Some students became better readers or more successful in math. Mentors and students alike come away enriched by this shared experience. Mentors know they have made a positive difference in the life of an Issaquah student, and the student’s academic skills not only improve but they welcome the bond created with their mentor. Schools staff also report how mentors are truly making a difference in the lives of the students academically and socially with their weekly contact.
Mentors would work with Mentees at the Elementary level.
Here is the link to the online application process.
http://voicementorprogram.org/become-a-mentor/
VOICE Director, Susan Gierke at 425-837-6801 or [email protected]
VOICE Coordinator at Liberty: Vicki Kenney, LHS Counselor, [email protected]