The Spirit of Excellence Tutorial Program is a multifaceted academic enrichment program designed to improve performance of participating Guilford County School students in grades one through twelve. It seeks to improve academic performance, bolster self-esteem, and revitalize the spirit of volunteerism in the African American community. The program recruits, screens, and trains adults as volunteer academic tutors. Utilizing a training manual designed to improve overall skills with an emphasis on reading, volunteers are trained to provide such assistance.

Spirit of Excellence operates ten tutorial sites throughout Greensboro, all located in public places including churches, public housing communities, branches of the Greensboro Public Library, the campus of North Carolina A & T State University, and the Hayes Taylor YMCA. A trained adult site monitor supervises each tutorial site and serves as the liaison between the Institute and the site participants, parents, and community.

A special component of the tutorial program is "The Algebra Project," a tutorial site devoted to meeting the needs of students in higher math courses such as algebra, geometry, and trigonometry.


For more information, please contact tutor@BlackChildDevelopment.org