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Help Students in Need Achieve More

Care for Students seeks to improve learning outcomes for driven public school students through virtual small-group tutoring

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Our Four Pillars

Here’s how we set ourselves apart

Virtual Tutoring Sessions

Our typical weekly tutoring session consist of 2 volunteers and 2-4 students reviewing material from those students' class curriculums. Our volunteers are full-time employees at Microsoft and have 4-year college degrees. Most of our volunteers also have previous tutoring experience or hold advanced degrees (Masters, PhDs).

Feedback for Teachers

After each tutoring session, volunteers complete a qualitative reflection on their students' learning and share it with the teachers. We provide this as an extra data point for educators to use as they understand and gauge where students are excelling and where some may need more help.

Measured Outcomes

We aspire to create an impact on students that can measured both qualitatively and quantitatively. Qualitatively, we look to affect students academic confidence as measured through surveys. Where applicable we also measure in-class performance including test scores and attendance.

Targeted Philanthropy

Using the Microsoft Employee volunteer match, we are able to provide sizable financial grants to our partner schools at the end of each academic year. With the help of our educators, we earmark this funding to support students and existing programs at the school.

What We've Accomplished So Far

Care for Students started as a three month pilot in the Spring of 2020. Here are some of our numbers to date*:

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Schools We Have Partnered With

We’re based in Seattle and have partnered with the following schools*.

Tacoma Public School District

  • Manitou Park Elementary
  • Oakland Alternative High School

Seattle Public School District

  • Franklin High School
  • The Center School
  • Aki Kurose Middle School
  • Nathan Hale High School
  • Rainier Beach High School
  • West Seattle Elementary

Bellevue Public School District

  • Highland Middle School
  • Sammamish Senior High School

Kent Public School District

  • Kentwood High School

Renton Public School District

  • Talley High School

Yakima School District

  • Wilson Middle School

*This does not include schools from the F2022-SP2023 school year, which is currently in progress.

See What Our Students, Tutors, & Teachers Have to Say....​

"Thank you for helping me with math work. You guys are the best at explaining things."
- 9th Grade Student
"Volunteering with Care for Students was such an awesome opportunity that allowed me to give back to the community through something as simple as getting students excited about math! Our students had such a fun time working through challenging, multi-step math puzzles and it was so rewarding to see each students further develop the crucial problem solving skills that we use as Microsoft Employees every day!"
- Hadley, Program Manager, Microsoft
"Some of our students reported getting improved grades on their progress checks since starting tutoring, while others are saying how proud of themselves they are for even attempting it after gaining confidence from tutoring."
- Franklin HS Math Interventionist