Be a volunteer tutor!

Raise Your Hand connects students performing below the state standard with volunteer tutors to boost reading and math skills.

As a volunteer tutor, you can help a child while adding skills to your resume. Tutoring is extremely flexible and works around your availability.

Volunteers commit to one hour per week for up to 10 weeks, assisting teachers with reading assignments and tutoring students individually or in small-group sessions. In partnership with each of the school districts, teachers guide volunteers through the tutoring process. No teaching experience is required, and training is provided. Get started!

Partnering with Schools

Raise Your Hand partners with administrators and teachers to implement tutoring sessions in participating schools. Our volunteer tutors work in the classroom after school helping teachers with first- through eighth-grade students who are struggling with reading and math. Teachers and volunteers partner to listen to and coach each child to success. Participation is completely free for students and includes snacks and transportation home.

For the 2024-2025 school year, Raise Your Hand is serving students in Clarksville and Cheatham, Montgomery, Dickson, Robertson, and Williamson counties. We appreciate the support provided by TN ALL Corps throughout the 2022 and 2023 academic years.

Youth Volunteers

The Raise Your Hand Youth Advisory Council (YAC) is dedicated to empowering volunteers to share engaging STEM activities with students in first- through fifth-grade throughout our community.  YAC is a platform for high school and college students to promote collaboration, learning and advocacy. Members are not assigned to one school but will rotate locations and meet virtually each month.