William D’Abate Elementary School is in Olneyville, which is around a 30 minute RIPTA from College Hill. As a part of Brown Elementary Afterschool Mentoring (BEAM), you help run an afterschool program for students at D’Abate where you design interactive activities for a group of elementary students with your fellow Brown University volunteers to help support neighborhood parents and provide much needed mentorship to these students. William D’Abate students consistently score below the state average in math and reading and its enrollment is 87% economically disadvantaged students, so providing kids with mentorship, homework help, and everything in between is incredibly important. The D’Abate students make BEAM what it is. Some of them have been in the afterschool program for the entirety of their time in elementary school. They are funny, full of energy, and worth getting to know, so we hope you’ll consider joining BEAM :)
School day volunteers work to help improve students’ literacy and mathematical skills. Brown student volunteers provide D'Abate students in grades K-5 with individualized attention and in-depth focus on reading, writing and mathematics. Volunteers make a weekly commitment for a full semester or academic year. As classroom tutors for D'Abate teachers, Brown student volunteers work one-on-one, or with smaller groups, on the daily lesson or specific areas of teacher concern. Volunteers commit to two hour sessions, once per week, Monday - Friday. The final weekly schedule is determined by the teacher to whom the volunteer is assigned.
D’Abate is located at 60 Kossuth St, Providence, 02909.