Community Services

	Peer Mentorship
	Student Leadership
	College Financial Planning
	Community & Global Partnerships

Peer Mentorship
We encourage gifted and mature students to participate in the broader operations of Washington Community Education. While adult professional advisors and mentors are necessary for excellence in secondary school and college preparation, we recognize that many students feel more comfortable interacting with their peers. Our high-achieving and mature students, thus, have the opportunity to take an active role in educating their fellow students through supervised, peer-mentor sessions.

We believe that making friends with students from different schools and diverse backgrounds is a necessary adjunct to an academic program of secondary school and college preparation. We want our students to enter the secondary schools and colleges of their choice, but we also encourage social enrichment and confidence building that will aid their future endeavors.

Student Volunteers who have demonstrated excellent commitment to helping other young students and contributed more than 500 hours of tutoring service are appointed by the President of W.C.E. as Student Tutors. Thus far, from the beginning of W.C.E.’s inception, only a few Student Volunteers have been appointed and granted the prestigious title of Student Tutors.

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Student Leadership
A few select, gifted, and mature students are nominated and elected by other Student Volunteers and Tutors to serve as Student Leaders and Officers. Before these students officially start serving as Student Leaders, the adult Directors must approve and confirm their Student Leadership assignments. These peer-elected students assist with the tutoring and mentoring programs in leadership roles. The Student Leaders also assist in developing, coordinating, and implementing various fundraising, community outreach, and global vision strategies and activities.

Student Leaders learn that they serve as leaders of our educational organization as well as leaders of our community. Through various community and global educational experiences, they learn critical real-life skills that will help them grow intellectually and personally as outstanding future leaders of our community and our world.

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College Financial Planning
Our students are our paramount concern at Washington Community Education. Ensuring that students have the requisite skills and knowledge to attend college is not enough, however. Our responsibility to our students extends to their parents, who also require an education, albeit of a different nature than that of their children. Consequently, we hold ongoing college financial planning conferences to inform parents of the private and public financial aid that is available. We do no one a favor by sending children to college who are prepared academically and socially but whose families are unprepared to shoulder the major financial burden of obtaining a college degree. Often parents and children alike do not fully realize the increasing financial challenges of obtaining higher education.

College financial planning is no one’s favorite subject, but it must not be ignored. At Washington Community Education, we strive to ensure that the whole family is informed and ready to meet the future demands on its collective pocketbook as well as the personal demands made on its children.

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Community & Global Partnerships
To provide the most comprehensive support to our youth, it will be critical to partner with other community organizations in the greater Washington, D.C. area and global organizations abroad that are also committed to our youth and to their healthy advancement. We will not discriminate against any educational, community, religious, or cultural organizations. We will, however, be extremely selective in choosing the community and global partners who will help us ensure our youth achieve their fullest potential.

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