Our plan
We conducted computer training at an underperforming elementary school by creating a skills-based volunteer program for local young professionals. During a pro-bono consulting session with the school’s principal, we learned that the school had a computer lab full of equipment, but the school’s resources lacked the skills and availability to teach the students how to use it. We decided to design a volunteer program for skilled professionals who would donate their time to teach students basic computer and word processing skills. After identifying the opportunity to help the school, we designed a proposal that outlined our vision and met with school administrators to begin planning the program. We developed a proposal that we submitted to the principal for her approval. For the pilot, we targeted third grade students and planned to host weekly live training sessions with one class per week until all of the third graders at the school had received computer training. Each class would be taught by multiple volunteers to give students more access to one-on-one instruction. We developed volunteer training materials, created teaching tools, and identified volunteers.
What we did
The program officially launched in the fall of 2006. Volunteers from a local management consulting firm signed up to teach the weekly courses. By winter break, all of the third grade students in the school had received hands-on computer training. The response from students, teachers, and administrators was so positive that we planned to extend the program into the spring. This time, we targeted fourth grade students, including an English-as-a-second-language (ESL) class, for which we provided bilingual volunteers.
Our results
Within one academic year, all of the third and fourth grade students at the elementary school had received hands-on computer and word processing training. The program also provided young professionals with an opportunity to donate their intellectual capital and talents to a worthy cause and act as role models for local youth. Feedback from the principal was overwhelmingly positive and she requested that the program be extended to the following academic year. The program has been formally adopted as an annual commitment by the supporting management consulting firm, and the scope has expanded to other area elementary schools as well.





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