[YEP-DC] Volunteer Opportunity: Become a Posse D.C. Writing Coach!

The Posse Foundation is looking for volunteers to work one-on-one with our recently selected scholars!

 

Our coaches are an essential part of our Writing Program and play such a critical role in helping promote academic excellence to our Posse Scholars.   If you are interested in volunteering during this exciting time of the year, please consider being a writing coach. A full list of responsibilities is included below.

 

 Individual Writing Coach (61 coaches needed) 

 Detailed responsibilities include: 

· Meet with a Scholar once a month for one hour from Late February to July, 2015 at the Posse D.C. office or other public places.

· Help Scholars identify their writing strengths and weaknesses.

· Provide tailored feedback on how Scholars can improve their writing.

· Issue a final "report" of a Scholar's strengths and areas for improvement.

· Help deepen Scholar understanding of the ways writing promotes leadership.

· Provide formal feedback on research paper development, citations, structure and thesis. 

· Writing coaches will also attend a 60 minute orientation, at which the Posse Writing Program manual, as well as, monthly breakdown of six formal writing workshops, will be provided.

 

If you are interested, please fill out the application by going to http://goo.gl/forms/RZVm4OtAUX and submit it by Monday, February 2^nd.  Please note that there is a mandatory Writing Coach Orientation for all new coaches taking place at our office on Thursday, February 12, 2015 (1319 F Street NW Suite 604) from 5:00pm-6:30pm.

 

If you have any questions please contact Program Coordinator-Jomaira Salas at Jomairas@possefoundation.org

 

 

About Posse:

 

Founded in 1989, Posse identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential who may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes. Posse extends to these students the opportunity to pursue personal and academic excellence by placing them in supportive, multicultural teams—Posses—of 10 students. Posse partner colleges and universities award Posse Scholars four-year, full-tuition leadership scholarships.

 

Today Posse is national initiative with chapters in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York and Washington, D.C. Since 1989, 6,264 Scholars have been selected to attend top-tier colleges and universities throughout the country. Nationally, Posse Scholars have won $804 million in scholarships from Posse's partner institutions and are persisting and graduating at a rate of 90 percent—significantly above the national average.

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