Tag: SmartTalk

  • Campus & Community

    Harvard helping the helpers

    Harvard’s SmartTALK is offering a three-session training to teens chosen as homework mentors through the Boston Public Library’s Homework Help program. The teens will assist children in kindergarten through eighth grade.

  • Campus & Community

    Gardner reaps the rewards

    A crowd of more than 100 teachers, school leaders, children, parents, Allston-Brighton residents, and Harvard University officials recently gathered at the Harvard Business School to encourage support for the Gardner Pilot Academy (GPA) and honor Lisa Moellman, the recipient of the second annual Gardner Champion Award.

  • Campus & Community

    A Boston school turnaround

    The Boston Public Schools’ Greenwood Academy has shown major improvement in two years, aided by the HASI program and Step UP, the five-university initiative that provides resources for 10 underperforming Boston public schools.

  • Campus & Community

    HASI lends a hand

    As the Boston Public Schools launched a new year of learning at back-to-school nights, the Harvard Achievement Support Initiative (HASI) helped by providing 11 local schools with 3,000 bags filled with homework enrichment materials.

  • Campus & Community

    Minds in the making

    The Harvard Achievement Support Initiative is arming teachers, parents, and community partners with techniques and resources that boost student achievement.

  • Campus & Community

    Extra help

    Harvard is making sure that approximately 3,000 bags of homework support materials for grades K-5 will be distributed to family members attending Boston Public Schools’ Back-to-School Night sessions beginning in mid-September.

  • Campus & Community

    Helping outside the classroom

    HASI organizes spring series of Family Events tutorial sessions.

  • Campus & Community

    SmartTALK Family Night

    Harvard-assisted SmartTALK evening at Dorchester school helps students to develop homework skills, with family participation.