Tutors helping students

The Catholic Tutor Corps is a grass roots organization of predominately Catholic lay people that had its beginnings 20 years ago.  The CTC grew out of the understanding that many of the students attending the inner city Catholic Schools come from families experiencing a number of educational disadvantages.  This resulted in many of these students working below grade level in school. 

The socioeconomic conditions that many of these students faced left them at a huge disadvantage compared with many of their peers.  In an effort to address this inequity the CTC began recruiting tutors from area parishes, the University of St. Thomas Law School, as well as local businesses, and making those tutors available to a number of the inner city Catholic Schools. 

The CTC has placed 80 tutors each year in 12 different Minneapolis and St. Paul schools.  The tutors have worked with students in grades one through eight, primarily on their reading and math skills.  This work has helped hundreds of students over the years improve their academic achievement and better prepare them for high school.

Board of Directors

Athena Novack

Athena is a professional educator with more than 20 years of experience teaching learners at a variety of levels from elementary aged students through graduate students. She has been preparing future educators at Concordia since 2014 first as an adjunct instructor and now as a full-time faculty of practice. Athena directed a number of tutors while on the faculty of Community of the Saints School in West St. Paul.

Tom Letscher

Tom is Co-Chair of the medical technology practice at Fox Rothschild Law Firm.   Tom is a veteran MedTech counselor and transaction attorney who has represented early stage and middle market public companies in dozens of financing, acquisition and sale transactions for more than 20 years. Tom has tutored with the Catholic Tutor Corps for several years.

Richard McGuire

Richard was one of the founders of the Catholic Tutor Corps eighteen years ago. Richard spent most of his career working in the railroad industry in the areas of finance and law.  He has spent time tutoring every year for the past twenty-two years.