Please visit our Volunteer Opportunities page for more details on the
Bank of America/Springfield School Volunteers
Read Aloud School Program.
Springfield School Volunteers Mission
The Mission of Springfield School Volunteers is to promote and facilitate learning-focused community involvement in support of the Springfield Public Schools' goal of ensuring that every child attain a high level of academic achievement in a safe and supportive environment.
What is Springfield School Volunteers?
Springfield School Volunteers is a non-profit organization dedicated for 39 years to marshalling the resources of the community to benefit the children, teachers and principals of the Springfield Public Schools. In alignment with Step Up Springfield, our focus is to provide academic support for students in grades k-12 to promote academic proficiency among Springfield Public School students.
Who is a School Volunteer?
A Springfield School Volunteer is a high school or college student, a parent or grandparent, a corporate employee, a retiree or any other individual, who gives freely of his or her time to make a difference in the lives of students in the Springfield Public Schools.
Springfield School Volunteers welcomes people who care about children and have an hour a week to help children learn.
There are approximately 26,000 students in the Springfield Public School System.
Each year more than 2,000 people enrich the lives of these students by volunteering in the schools. Why not join them?
Some Ways That You Can Help
An hour or more a week:
Mentor/Tutor - help a child with an academic subject and character development
Enrichment - share an interest or talent with a gifted student
Tutor in a family homeless shelter - "be there" for a child in transition
After school tutor - help a student with homework
Be a "Lunch Buddy" - have lunch and talk with a student once a week
Three times a school year:
Bank of America/Springfield School Volunteers Read Aloud - read aloud to an elementary classroom once in October, November and December
Six times a year:
Read Aloud Continued - Read aloud to an elementary classroom monthly, January through June