LA Schools Feature: “An LA tutoring program includes fun to empower LAUSD students’ writing”

When 826LA development manager Alma Carillo finished a recent tutoring session with an LA Unified student, she was met with an unexpected surprise.

“I remember after we bound his book and handed it to him, he stared at it, and then he looked up at me, and then he stared back and was like, ‘I wrote this?’ and I was like, “Ya! You’re a published author!” and he was like, ‘I didn’t know we were gonna do this today; this is really cool!,’ said Carillo.