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Provide powerful, self-help training and certification
for students at all grades and levels to gain higher academic standing
and personal self-sufficiency by:
- Providing a training program for tutors
- Granting certificates to successful participants
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We
gratefully acknowledge the following sponsors
for their help and support:
The Harbinger
Foundation
The Ontario Trillum Foundation
The South East Michigan Community
Foundation
The McLean Foundation
The Palonek Family
The Paloma Foundation
The Rogan Foundation
The J.P. Bickell Foundation
HydroOne
TAXI Advertising
Sharpe Blackmore Advertising
The Raptors Kids Foundation
The J.P. Bickell Foundation
and many individuals and kind donors.
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The Mission:
To train and certify student tutors to provide informed
academic help not otherwise available to large
numbers of students who are academically at risk, and to do so
in a cost effective
and easily replicable manner.
The Tenets:
L2L is open to all students. Priority is given
to where the need is greatest.
L2L is language and culture free.
L2L provides communities with leadership and self-help
in a unique and fundamental way.
L2L adds productivity to society as a whole. Canada’s productivity depends
on its people’s knowledge and skills.
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If you are interested in volunteer work with L2L, please send an e-mail including your background and the areas in which you would like to help. All people associated with L2L who have contact with the students must be cleared through the police check. L2l provides the papers and fee. |
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Licensed to Learn Inc. (L2L) is a
charitable, not-for-profit enterprise dedicated
to helping students to help themselves and
others in creative and productive ways.
Patron:
- The Honourable Lincoln Alexander, PC, OC, BA, LLD
Honourary Chair:
- The Honourable Coulter A. Osborne, QC
Board:
- Robin Campbell, BA, LLB
- Daria Hadziewicz, Student
- Nancy Hamm, BComm
- Steve Paikin, MSc
- Sandy Mitchell MScEd
- Carol McCabe, MEd
- Michaele Robertson, MA(T)
- Daniel Shearer, BA
- Chris Sherk, MBA, LLB
Advisors:
Volunteer:
- Catherine Newell, LLB, Registrar
Administration:
- Barry Wansbrough, MEd, Headmaster Emeritus, Hillfield-Strathallan
College, Hamilton, ON, President and CEO.
- Kathy Timmins, BA, Executive Assistant
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For Students
There are big advantages for both the tutors and those they tutor. The tutors receive very practical training about the tactics and processes of helping others to improve their grades, and most improve their own grades, too. By almost universal agreement, they get serious personal satisfaction and respect from helping others, their school and community. Earning the certificate is an appropriate reward for this volunteer activity, and it is very well-received by the tutors.
The peers who are tutored receive help in a unique and individual environment and with tutors who have only their success to concentrate on. Feedback from the students, parents and teachers is very positive about the impact on the students' morale, attendance, completion of work and better achievement.
For Schools
The schools benefit from a buzz of very positive activity that is focused on the point of schooling: hitting a higher mark! - in all respects. Principals and teachers have been very supportive in this program. Because there are academic and character qualifications for acceptance into the tutoring program, and there is very positive recognition for the tutors. Also, there is much demand to join.
GTA Schools of L2L
- Winona Drive Senior Public School and McMurrich Public School
- Willowdale Middle School
- Glenview Public School
- Nelson Mandela Park PS
- Humber Summit MS
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic School
- St. Nicolas of Bari Catholic School
- Oakwood Collegiate Institute
- Western Technical-Commercial School
- West Toronto CI
- Forest Hill CI
Special Partners
- Schools Without Borders: Shree Mangal DVIP
School, Katmandu, Nepal
- Bennetto Public School, Hamilton, (Summer, 2004)
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