Swearer Center workshops
Throughout the semester, the Swearer Center will be offering workshops and brown bag lunch talks to support your engagement with K-12 local students. Please check our events page for up-to-date info.
In addition, the Swearer Center offers an asynchronous training module on TopHat that provides an Orientation to Brown and Providence History. This 1-hour workshop focuses on how the themes of power, privilege, historical context, race, and identity might impact students’ community experience.
Swearer Center and Annenberg Institute Staff, BTC Learning Communities
We are here for you! Whether you need additional tutoring guidance or want to learn more community engagement, education-related careers or research, or anything else, we can schedule one-on-one time with you.
Each BTC site will also have bi-weekly learning community meetings. Generally held virtually, these are opportunities to connect with fellow Brown students engaging with BTC at your site, to share experiences, tips, questions, and general reflections.
Curriculum resources
The following resources have been created for BTC, or provided by our site partners:
- Grade level standards matrix
- Tutoring session tips
- English language arts tips prepared by Alexis Campbell, Brown UEP '26
- Dual Language Essentials
Site Profiles
BTC Site Profiles are intended to provide a summary of some publicly-available data about our various sites. Tutors can read these for broad, contextual understanding, and we encourage you to recognize the countless, dynamic qualities that are not easily represented or quantified in site profiles. As you get to know your students, school/site leaders and staff, and your fellow BTC tutors, you’ll grow a more robust understanding of what each of these learning communities hold.
Saga Education
Saga Coach Self-Paced Online Tutor Training- Covers the essential components of effective tutoring. Completion time is about 10 hours, and is organized into three main sections: relationships, ratio and rigor. You can save your progress within the training, so we recommend completing it at a pace that best suits your learning style. Tutors can earn BTC points for completing this!