Reveley Fellowship course launches tutoring partnership with WJCC Schools
Summary
As part of a new Reveley Interdisciplinary Fellowship course, 23 William & Mary undergraduates recently completed tutoring orientation to begin supporting multilingual learners in Williamsburg-James City County (WJCC) high schools.
Full Description
Developed by Reveley Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellows Associate Professor Katherine Barko-Alva and Sociology Professor Jennifer Bickham Mendez, “Immigrant Communities and Education in the U.S.,” has launched to support a partnership between the university and WJCC Schools. Twenty-three William & Mary undergraduate students attended a tutoring orientation at James Blair Middle School on Feb. 5, 2026, to learn about supporting multilingual learners.
WJCC ESL teacher Ryan Babcock M.Ed. ’20 and WJCC ESL Specialist Lyn Whitt M.Ed. ’20 are collaborating with Barko-Alva and Bickham Mendez to provide meaningful learning opportunities for students to work with and learn from multilingual learners in the district’s three high schools. After a second tutor orientation on Feb. 9 for the Aprendiendo Juntos project, Barko-Alva expects to have 35 W&M undergrads working with WJCC Schools.
The Reveley Fellows program supports interdisciplinary work at William & Mary. Its goal is to stimulate intellectual creativity across the campus by facilitating faculty commitment to interdisciplinary teaching and research, taking greater advantage of our existing intellectual resources in novel combinations.