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Resolution adopted by the Board of Directors on June 30, 2020:
About Us
Our Story
The Embudo Valley Tutoring Association (EVTA) was incorporated, as Embudo Valley Tutoring (EVTA), in 2004 as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization to support New Mexico's Dixon Elementary School, and strengthen the educational opportunities for children in the rural area surrounding the Rio Grande of Rio Arriba County in northern New Mexico. EVTA has provided continuous free tutoring and mentoring to children and youth of the Rio Grande and surrounding villages for 12 years. We provide free tutoring during the school day, after school, and during the summer. Beginning in 2010, EVTA began to stretch its resources and staff to serve children in other schools who needed reading interventionists, such as Velarde Elementary, and later, La Jicarita Community School in Penasco (now closed), Penasco Independent Schools, and Taos's Enos Garcia Community School and Anansi Charter School. It is our goal to extend our service offerings to as many children as we can reach with the resources available to us. During the COVID-19 crisis, EVTA has continued to serve its students by offering remote and socially distanced tutoring.
Please click on the link below (it will take you to Santa Fe Community Foundation's website) to read about the Embudo Valley Library, our oldest partner. Embudo Valley Library and Community Center (santafecf.org)
Our Mission
- Provide children and youth in the rural communities along the Northern Rio Grande from Velarde to Taos with an equal chance to achieve academic success by providing free tutoring in any subject for as long as the student needs it.
- Strengthen the quality of education in underfunded rural schools in our area by providing qualified tutors to work in the schools during the school day, as well as after school and in the summer.
- Help children with dyslexia and other reading disabilities succeed by providing them with specialized multisensory phonetic language learning interventions when they cannot learn by traditional teaching methods.
- Reduce the local high school drop-out rate of 15% by helping students achieve proficiency in language arts and math in the early primary years.
Our Values
- Commitment: EVTA's staff of experienced teachers is committed to providing the best possible tutoring support to the children of our rural communities so that they have an equal chance to succeed in an increasingly technical, competitive world.
- High quality of service: EVTA is dedicated to providing the best possible training to our tutors so that they may be able to meet any student's academic needs.
- Empowerment: Our goal is to empower local children so they can achieve their full potential as human beings, responsible parents, and leaders of society.
- Community: EVTA works closely with local families, schools, and the Rio Grande Library to increase the literacy of local children.
- Flexibility: EVTA remains flexible in its service offerings so the organization can adapt itself to the changing needs of the schools and community.
