About Us
TAG accomplishes its mission through six program components which provide comprehensive academic, personal, and social support to Latino youth and English Language Learners (ELL). In each component TAG integrates leadership development and community building, thereby creating the next generation of Latino leaders that will uplift the Boston community. The six components of TAG are:
- Intensive academic tutoring;
- School vacation and Saturday academies that combine academic support and enrichment/recreation programming;
- Intensive one-to-one or two-to-one mentoring with volunteer adult Latino mentors;
- Student-led, school-based TAG Clubs which offer leadership development and a vehicle for community involvement and support;
- College awareness activities and scholarship fund; and
- An intensive summer program onsite at UMass Boston.
Reaching out to families and increasing their involvement in their child's education is a key component of our strategy. Bilingual family events at schools and UMass Boston, home visits, meetings with parents, and frequent family phone contact are a regular part of our programs.
Although the TAG program is open to all students in BPS, its services are geared towards Latino and ELL students, with strong partnerships with Boston International High School, Boston Latin Academy, Boston Latin School, Brighton High School, Burke High School, English High School, and the John D. O'Bryant School of Math and Science. Students who participate in TAG and successfully complete high school are guaranteed admission to UMass Boston, thereby opening the doors to an excellent four-year college education to Latino students and English Language Learners.
TAG now has a long list of alumni, many of whom have since obtained postgraduate degrees and are now working professionals. Many of these alumni return to the program as TAG Club guest speakers, mentors, TAG tutors, teaching assistants, and teachers in the summer program. Such is the commitment that TAG students develop to the program and its population that the past two program coordinators both began as TAG students in their 7th grade at Boston Latin School.
