Agenda

8:00 - 8:45 AM Breakfast / Registration
8:45 - 9:00 AM Welcome
Susanna Loeb, National Student Support Accelerator (NSSA) & Stanford University

Location: McCaw Hall
9:00 - 9:45 AM Sustaining Intensive, Relationship-based, Individualized Instruction: Federal and State Perspectives

Why We Must Sustain High-Impact Tutoring
Roberto Rodríguez, Assistant Secretary, US Department of Education

Fireside Chat: The Critical Role States Play in Sustaining High-Impact Tutoring
Arsenio Romero, New Mexico Secretary of Public Education
Susanna Loeb, National Student Support Accelerator (NSSA) & Stanford University

Location: McCaw Hall
9:45 - 10:30 AM Sustaining High-Impact Tutoring: District Examples of Success

Panelists:
Tamara Acevedo, Chief Academic Officer, Colorado Springs School District 11
Matt Barrow, Director of Differentiated Learning, Baltimore City Public Schools
Dana Talley, Chief Academic Officer, Lincoln Parish Schools

Moderator: Christina Grant, State Superintendent of Education, Washington, D.C., Incoming Executive Director, Center for Education Policy Research, Harvard University

Location: McCaw Hall
10:30 - 11:00 AM Break/Transition

11:00 - 12:00 PM

Learning Communities
Researchers State/District Leaders Tutoring Providers
Current Research: Key Questions and Lessons Learned

Location: Barnes/McDowell/Cranston
Strategies for Sustainable Programs

Location: Lane/Lyons/Lodato
Cultivating Strong Partnerships

Location: McCaw Hall
12:00 - 12:45 PM Lunch
12:45 - 2:00 PM Research Lightning Rounds
12:45 - 1:15 PM

Design Features Spotlight:
Group Size + In-Person vs. Virtual


"The Effects of a Virtual Tutoring Program with Young Students: Does Group Size Matter?"
Carly Robinson, Stanford University

"Experimental Evidence on the Impact of Tutoring Format and Tutors: Findings from an Early Literacy Tutoring Program"
Shirin Hasham, Harvard University

Location: Barnes/McDowell/Cranston

How Can AI Tools Support High-Impact Tutoring?

"The Effect of Tutor CoPilot for Virtual Tutoring Sessions: Testing an AI Intervention to Improve Tutor Instruction"
Rose Wang, Stanford University

"PLUS: Lessons from a Highly Scalable, AI-powered Hybrid Tutoring Program."
Shivang Gupta, Carnegie Mellon University

Location: Lane/Lyons/Lodato
The Big Picture Effects of Tutoring

"Generalizing about Effect Sizes when Education Interventions are Taken to Scale: A Meta-Analytic Exploration of the Experimental Evidence on K-12 Tutoring"
Beth Schueler, University of Virginia

"Impacts of Academic Recovery Interventions on Student Achievement in ESSER Year 3 (2022-23)"
Emily Morton, CALDER

Location: McCaw Hall
1:15 - 1:30 PM Transition
1:30 - 2:00 PM Big Bets on Tutoring: The Local Perspective

"A State-Level Initiative for Increasing Access to High-Impact Tutoring"
Carly Robinson, Stanford University

"Scaling High-Impact Tutoring: School Level Perspectives on Implementation Challenges and Strategies"
Alvin Makori, University of Southern California

Location: Barnes/McDowell/Cranston
How Can AI Tools Support High-Impact Tutoring?

"The Effect of Tutor CoPilot for Virtual Tutoring Sessions: Testing an AI Intervention to Improve Tutor Instruction"
Rose Wang, Stanford University

"PLUS: Lessons from a Highly Scalable, AI-powered Hybrid Tutoring Program."
Shivang Gupta, Carnegie Mellon University

Location: Lane/Lyons/Lodato

Recent Effectiveness Evidence
from the Frontlines


"Taking Tutoring to Scale: Program Dynamics, Causal Effects, and Lessons Learned."
Danielle Edwards, Old Dominion University & Grace Bailey, Metro Nashville Public Schools

"Realizing the Promise of High Dosage Tutoring At Scale: Preliminary Evidence for the Field"
Jon Guryan, Northwestern University

Location: McCaw Hall

2:00 - 2:15 PM Break/Transition
2:15 - 3:00 PM Sustaining High-Impact Tutoring: Ensuring Quality

Panelists:
Jennifer Rosenbaum, Deputy Chief, DC Public Schools
Gregory Mott, Assistant Superintendent of Schools, Poughkeepsie City School District
Shawn Walker, Student Success Coordinator, Lenoir City Schools

Moderator: Liz Cohen, Policy Director, FutureEd

Location: McCaw Hall
3:00 - 3:30 PM Break/Transition

3:30 - 4:30 PM

Break-Out Sessions: Foundations of Sustainability

Sustainably Sourcing Tutors

Ann Argo, Tutoring Services Coordinator, LAUSD
Wesley Jacques, former ED of Academics and Instruction, OUSD
Sam Olivieri, CEO, Step Up Tutoring
Safonya Ray, Academic Tutoring Coordinator, Baltimore City Schools
Lakisha Young, Founder, The Oakland REACH

Moderator: Maurice Telesford, Teacher, Ferndale High School 

Location: Barnes/McDowell/Cranston

Quality Data for Sustaining Quality Programs: Examples from the Field

Location: Lane/Lyons/Lodato
Family and Community Partnerships

Jennifer Cisneros, Director of Expanded Learning Programs, Santa Ana Unified School District
Alejandro Gibes de Gac, Chief Executive Officer, Springboard Collaborative
Michelle Vilchez, Chief Executive Officer, Innovate Public Schools

Moderator: Brittany Miller, Managing Director, Outcomes-Based Contracting, Southern Education Foundation

Location: McCaw Hall
4:30 - 4:45 PM Transition
4:45 - 5:30 PM Closing & End of Day Reflections

Location: McCaw Hall
5:30 - 8:00 PM Evening Reception

Location: Ford Gardens
  Questions? Please email info@studentsupportaccelerator.org