By: Justin Ramos
Senn Alumnus

Nicholas Senn High School’s VLT (VOYCE Leadership Team) successfully campaigned to create a school-wide tutoring program for the students of Senn. The proposal to add tutors was presented to Principal Richard Norman and Assistant Principal Carter Carey, and was approved after a meeting held between Mr. Norman and a sophomore at Senn.

Effective immediately, soon-to-be teachers from Universities around Chicago including DePaul, Loyola, and Northeastern will volunteer as tutors to aid Senn students who need extra help. In exchange the tutors will receive hands on experience working with students and a certificate of completion that will help them when applying for teaching positions in the future.

Senn’s VLT is now developing workshops to build strong teacher-student relationships in hopes to raise the overall academic progress of the school as well as lower the unnecessary disciplinary action such as suspensions and detentions.