For the past seven years and counting, Judy and Morgan have been meeting up for Cluster Tutoring every week during the school year. Their friendship formed when Morgan was in the third grade and their bond has only grown since. Morgan and Judy say they always look forward to Cluster each week. “I like seeing […]
Spotlight: Volunteers, Students, & Staff
Tutor-Student Spotlight: Kristen and Avani
Kristen Steinglen and Avani started working together at the Cluster Tutoring Program’s new location – Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church in Oak Park – on Monday nights at the start of the school year. Both Kristen (tutor) and Avani (student) were new to the Cluster Tutoring Program. Kristen found out about the Cluster Tutoring Program from […]
Tutor-Student Spotlight: Ron Haas and Keishon
In September of 2021, Ron Haas and Keishon began meeting weekly at Fair Oaks Presbyterian Church, Cluster’s new location for Monday evenings. Though the pair were new to each other at the time, neither of them were new to Cluster Tutoring. Ron first began volunteering with the Cluster Tutoring Program back in 2004. Initially, Ron […]
Staff spotlight: Joseph Price: tutoring student and program assistant
Joseph Price has been attending Cluster Tutoring as a student since the 4th grade. But this year, he received a bonus as well as homework help — he’s now working as Cluster’s program assistant on Tuesday nights. Joseph has had multiple tutors over the years and has worked with tutor Louis Schorr since Joseph was […]
Staff spotlight: Aliyah Washington, program assistant and future police officer
Aliyah Washington hopes her years at Cluster Tutoring serve her in her chosen future profession working in a police department. Aliyah, the Thursday night program assistant, has attended tutoring in several roles: First as a student, starting when she was in 6th grade, working with tutor Andrew Reed; then as a student assistant in Cluster’s […]
Staff spotlight: Julia Schroeder, program assistant and budding writer
Julia Schroeder is definitely in the right place to achieve some of her lifetime goals of growing as a writer and a teacher. But those are just some of her interests and activities, which include everything from hosting a podcast to hula-hooping. “I feel grown-ups can learn just as much from kids as kids learn […]