Educational Engagement Programs provides UD students with paid opportunities to partner with community and education leaders to tutor, mentor and assist in community-driven capacity building. UD students are provided educational formation on pedagogy, advocacy and best practices of community engagement. Additionally, this experience is meant to broaden the scope of educational attainment through partnerships with nonprofit and government agencies outside of the education sector to improve the quality and depth of community engagement and fulfill our commitment to two-generation/whole family engagement. The program also creates professional opportunities for UD students that enhance student knowledge of culturally responsive strategies and community impact, thus helping to shape the next generation of urban teachers, community leaders and education advocates.

UD students can become an Education Impact Partner, Summer Impact Partner, Flyer Coach or participate through federal work study as a Neighborhood School Center Tutor.

Through the cultivation of Education Impact Partners and other University of Dayton Students, Educational Engagement Programs addresses educational barriers through partnerships with local schools and organizations to advance quality education for all.

Catalyzing robust and reciprocal community-driven partnerships to advance educational attainment.

Education Impact Partners collaborate with local schools, nonprofits and government agencies to encourage student learning and development, connect with families and support educational attainment while also gaining professional skills and learning experience necessary to thrive in future careers.

Weekly Commitment: Six hours per week, which includes a two hour mini-course and four placement hours in a local school or nonprofit
$2,000 scholarship

Summer Impact Partners provide continued daily support to Dayton Public School’s Neighborhood Schools Centers (NSC’S) and local nonprofits through June and July. NSC’s are supported by local nonprofit organizations. The nonprofit organizations provide summer programming for k-8 students from East and West Dayton neighborhoods.

The Summer Impact Program is a 10-week program focused on providing engaging educational enrichment activities for Dayton's youth
$6,300 summer scholarship/funding

Flyer Coaches provide small group literacy tutoring to students who attend Dayton Public Elementary Schools. Flyer Coaches engage with a consistent set of students and use critical thinking to apply the provided tutoring curriculum in ways that maximize students’ achievement of literacy learning goals.

Weekly commitment of approximately six hours per week (minimum of four hours/maximum of eight hours)
$15 per hour

Education Impact Partner: Neighborhood School Center Tutors are federal work study funded UD students that support community schools and education based organizations by assisting site coordinators and supervisors with in-school and/or out-of-school programming, math and literacy tutoring, and educational/mentoring support of students.