National Volunteer Week Spotlight: Charlie Corchero

FINDING A SENSE OF PRIDE — AND SECOND CAREER — THROUGH VOLUNTEERING By Charlie Corchero, Boston Partners in Education academic mentor After 20 years as an electrical engineer, you might think I’ve learned all that I could. A man in my position, with grown children and...

National Book Month

31 Books for National Book Month by Amy Hahn, Boston Partners in Education AmeriCorps VISTA     During the month of October we celebrated National Book Month, tweeting about one of our favorite books each day. The books ranged in reading level from Pre-K to...

Darryl Walton, The O’Bryant School

Darryl Walton, Associate Clinical Professor and Director of Community Business Clinic at Northeastern University School of Law, visited Laura Rosenfield’s advisory group at the John D. O’Bryant School of Math and Science as our final Pathfinders visit for the academic...

Reflections From our 2018 MLK Scholars

Boston Partners was joined by three incredibly bright and talented Boston Public Schools students this summer through the John Hancock MLK Scholars Program. For two months, Kledion, Sitnour, and Steeven led an outreach project to help recruit more academic mentors for...

An Eventful Summer Experience: By Sitnour Elamin

An Eventful Summer Experience By Sitnour Elamin On my first day of work as an MLK Scholar, a combination of me entering a new environment, it being my first job, and not knowing my co-workers left me as a nervous wreck. But the people I’ve gotten to know over the last...