What are the responsibilities and job description for the Help as a START Literacy Tutor this Spring (2026) position at Goodman Community Center?
The Goodman Community Center is not your average community center. As I get to talking with people about Goodman, they inevitably end up surprised. They’re surprised by how many programs and resources we offer, how beautiful our facilities are, or how many people we serve. Every year more than 30,000 people use the Center - some who come to one event, others who are very familiar faces here.
Thanks to our generous community, we just built and moved into a second beautiful facility across the street, the Brassworks building. We’re now reconfiguring and refreshing the Center’s first home on Waubesa Street, the Ironworks building. During this past ten years, we’ve nearly doubled in size.
Our staff are committed to learning and continually improving, too. That’s why each program uses a variety of tools to measure impacts for both the program overall, and for each individual participant. We use that data to constantly fine-tune what we do - and how we do it.
We’re glad Goodman is one of many organizations in the Madison area who are pouring themselves into making our community great - for us all. We hope you’ll join us. Because we know that every good thing that happens here is made possible by people like you.
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Learn how to teach elementary-age youth to read as a trained tutor. Goodman Community Center is offering a tutoring program that teams adult tutors with elementary youth. Teams of adults and youth will work to improve the young person‘s reading skills, with support from our Goodman Literacy Specialist.
This program runs for a total of 13 weeks, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3-5pm. Spring semester runs January 27- April 30th, 2026.
Sessions are broken into two chapters (see below)
Chapter 1 For the first 5 weeks, all new tutors attend a Science of Reading evidence-based training where they learn to use toolboxes of literacy resources and activities (before tutor sessions begin).
Chapter 2 The next 8 weeks (following the training) volunteers tutor elementary students in an after school "Lit Club."
All tutors are assigned to a tutor team that provides continued coaching and support.
Ideal tutors and enthusiastic about reading and literacy and are available for the listed 6 hours per week.
If interested, please indicate interest on this link AND either call 608-204-8048 OR email abigail@goodmancenter.org.
Thanks to our generous community, we just built and moved into a second beautiful facility across the street, the Brassworks building. We’re now reconfiguring and refreshing the Center’s first home on Waubesa Street, the Ironworks building. During this past ten years, we’ve nearly doubled in size.
Our staff are committed to learning and continually improving, too. That’s why each program uses a variety of tools to measure impacts for both the program overall, and for each individual participant. We use that data to constantly fine-tune what we do - and how we do it.
We’re glad Goodman is one of many organizations in the Madison area who are pouring themselves into making our community great - for us all. We hope you’ll join us. Because we know that every good thing that happens here is made possible by people like you.
,
Learn how to teach elementary-age youth to read as a trained tutor. Goodman Community Center is offering a tutoring program that teams adult tutors with elementary youth. Teams of adults and youth will work to improve the young person‘s reading skills, with support from our Goodman Literacy Specialist.
This program runs for a total of 13 weeks, Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays from 3-5pm. Spring semester runs January 27- April 30th, 2026.
Sessions are broken into two chapters (see below)
Chapter 1 For the first 5 weeks, all new tutors attend a Science of Reading evidence-based training where they learn to use toolboxes of literacy resources and activities (before tutor sessions begin).
Chapter 2 The next 8 weeks (following the training) volunteers tutor elementary students in an after school "Lit Club."
All tutors are assigned to a tutor team that provides continued coaching and support.
Ideal tutors and enthusiastic about reading and literacy and are available for the listed 6 hours per week.
If interested, please indicate interest on this link AND either call 608-204-8048 OR email abigail@goodmancenter.org.