Posts by Melissa Phillips

Here’s what motivates this committed tutor to keep coming back as a volunteer at SDRT. Written By: Stephen Gilmour I first heard about SDRT in the summer of 2017. A friend and coworker told me about a tutoring program that he had joined. He told me about a boy from Syria with whom he had…

One of our goals at SDRT is to give our kids wonderful childhood memories. This weekend, 75 students and volunteers took our third trip to the ice skating rink and accomplished our goal! We were prepared with gloves, long socks, hot cocoa and plenty of volunteers to help our students on the ice this past…

This weekend, we remember Martin Luther King, Jr. who over 60 years ago, fought relentlessly for the issues we still fight for in this country today: social justice, equality, and peace. As our city, state and nation become more and more polarized, the question of how we will meet folks who are different from us…

In addition to tutoring our students twice a week, SDRT takes multiple field trips outside of City Heights throughout the year. These field trips make our kids smarter in more ways than one. Up until yesterday, climbing up a steep hill, admiring a shiny lake from a distance and spotting a red-tailed hawk soaring through…

Our last night of tutoring in 2019 was surprisingly quiet despite the exciting festivities. We stepped out of our routine so we could celebrate the holidays with our students. Each student/tutor pair got a ticket to visit three rooms during their tutoring session. We tried to keep the rooms a secret and it worked. The…

San Diego Refugee Tutoring exists to support our students and their academic growth. When parents cannot show up to celebrate their kids, we do. And, if parents do show up, we congratulate them as well. At each End-of-Trimester Award Ceremony at Ibarra Elementary, San Diego Refugee Tutoring celebrates each SDRT student recognized with a rose…

The holidays are in full swing at San Diego Refugee Tutoring. We hope that you will join us this week for our last tutoring session on 12/17. San Diego Refugee Tutoring supports over 150 refugee students. We want to see our kids thrive academically. We also want them to have typical American experiences that they…