An Award for Jack Neale, an OCRI JUMP Math Tutor
OCRI’s JUMP Math Tutoring Program matches volunteers from the Ottawa Community with participating schools to work one-on-one with students who are struggling in Math class.
We were thrilled to hear that Mr. Jack Neale won the 2008 Cognos Volunteer of the Year award for JUMP Math tutoring at nearby Carleton Heights Public School. IBM Cognos partners with OCRI and Carleton Heights P S in recruiting volunteer JUMP tutors. This year the OCRI program placed over one hundred volunteers (including 14 from IBM Cognos) in participating schools. Jack Neale who has been a JUMP tutor at Carleton Heights Public School for three years was surprised and honoured to receive the award.
Tutoring mathematics once per week to a child is wonderfully rewarding in itself because it is focused on overcoming challenges—both for the child and the tutor. The JUMP Math Tutoring Program is based on the belief that every child can succeed in Math and that it is the tutor’s job to find the key to the child’s success. Achieving results as a team is very satisfying. The award from Cognos represents a big shout-out from all people who believe in getting together to help one another solve problems. We want to join in the cheering for Jack Neale. Bravo, Jack.
