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03/03/2021. Organization
The GO Foundation runs the GO Fellowship, an AmeriCorps national service program providing students in grades 3-12 with high-dosage tutoring in ELA and/or math and near-peer mentoring in an embedded model – from morning arrival through the end of the school day. Our tutors (“GO Fellows”) are typically recent college or high school graduates serving as AmeriCorps members who are trained to provide a year of hands-on service in schools. GO Fellows, who undergo a rigorous selection process, develop the communities they serve, mentor for leadership, and instruct for mastery.
03/03/2021. Organization
10,000 college students are available to tutor K-12 students in over 153 subjects.
03/03/2021. Organization
Future Forward is an early literacy intervention that provides individualized one-on-one tutoring and family engagement for kindergarten through 3rd grade struggling readers. The program is traditionally implemented embedded in schools, though we have piloted both virtual and hybrid implementation models for distance intervention (please note: These models have not yet been rigorously evaluated).
03/03/2021. Organization
Enhanced Core Reading Instruction is a multi-tiered program (Tier 1 and Tier 2) featuring a series of teaching routines designed to increase the efficiency and effectiveness of reading instruction in kindergarten, first and second grade.
03/03/2021. Organization
Cignition delivers high-impact K-12 tutoring, led by experienced educators who produce proven, repeatable results in student success. Our research-based approach focuses on data-informed instruction and collaborative learning, encouraging student-to-student interaction to build deep conceptual understanding.
03/03/2021. Organization
BookNook’s synchronous online learning platform is designed to help schools easily implement high-impact tutoring for K–8 students. Choose between our In-house Delivery option—where your teachers tap into our platform to deliver small-group reading instruction, or our Virtual Tutor Service option—where our highly trained tutors provide expert instruction at scale. With BookNook’s standards-aligned lessons and engaging content, we accelerate learning as students become confident readers.
03/03/2021. Organization
Air Tutors is your district’s online partner in academic achievement. Our interactive experience developed long before the pandemic and, within the prestigious private school and boarding school arena, we polished research driven tutoring and mentoring service with the goal of helping all students reach their full potential with high quality, personalized instruction.
03/02/2021. Organization
BEAM runs summer math programs for underserved students with proclivity towards mathematics. After our summer programs, BEAM continues to provide enrichment classes, high school and college advising, and other wraparound support.
03/02/2021. Organization
The College Advising Corps is the nation's largest college access program working through 31 universities in 17 states. Within each chapter (including the University of Texas at Austin chapter) recent college graduates are selected for specific high schools to be imbedded in the school full-time to work with students daily to increase the number of low-income, first-generation, and underrepresented students entering and completing higher education.
03/01/2021. Article
There is near unanimous, bipartisan agreement that tutoring is among the most promising, evidence-based strategies to help students struggling with learning loss.
03/01/2021. Article
The COVID-19 pandemic has set back learning for millions of students and compounded educational inequities in our nation’s schools. Data suggest that the pandemic is disproportionately harming Black, Latinx, and low-income students.
02/24/2021. Tool
Integration of Safety, Equity and Cohesion
The overarching principles of high-impact tutoring are safety, equity, and cohesion. These themes have been woven in throughout all components of the toolkit.
02/23/2021. Tool
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Overview
Critical Questions
Why and for whom is this tutoring program needed?
How will this tutoring program increase equity?
Program Focus
02/23/2021. Tool
Purpose
Use the tool below to reflect on the strengths and areas of opportunities of your program aligned to the Actions and Practices of High-Impact Tutoring. Actions and Practices are the routine implementation processes that programs can improve regardless of their Model Dimensions, like “tutor recruitment and selection” or “session facilitation” (i.e. what the program does).
02/21/2021. Tool
Implementation Checklist
Define measures of success in alignment with your logic model, including non-academic measures of impact.
Develop tools to collect data on the identified measures, including both quantitative and qualitative data.
Set benchmarks to monitor progress towards outcomes.
Put systems in place for collecting data that can be disaggregated by race, gender, IEP statues, home language, and other important factors to ensure equity of se
02/17/2021. Tool
Purpose
One-on-one goal setting conferences between tutors and students empower each student to take ownership over their education. Tutor coaching can help students clarify their goals and codify their plans of action, making it easier to communicate students’ progress to their families and other stakeholders such as teachers. Tutors can use the agenda below collaboratively with students to analyze academic growth and mastery, reflect on overall progress towards goals, and create a new action plan to keep moving forward.
02/17/2021. Tool
Why should tutors/tutoring programs continually update students’ families?
Continual updates make student progress (and the value of the tutoring program) visible and tangible for families.
02/17/2021. Tool
Click here to view a sample introduction letter/program permission slip that can be adapted.
02/16/2021. Tool
Why does In-Service Training, Oversight and Support Matter?
Training, providing oversight and supporting your tutors are the most effective ways to ensure they are building and maintaining the skills and mindsets required to tutor successfully in your program.
02/16/2021. Tool
Why is tutor training important?
Training your tutors is the most effective way to ensure they are building and maintaining the skills and mindsets required to successfully tutor in your program. There are two main methods of training: Pre-Service Training, which takes place before tutoring sessions begin, and In-Service Training, which is an integral part of a tutor’s ongoing support.
02/16/2021. Tool
This tool is not legal advice
Consult an attorney to ensure program compliance with all federal, state, and local laws.
02/16/2021. Tool
This tool is not legal advice
Consult an attorney to ensure program compliance with all federal, state, and local laws.
02/16/2021. Tool
Your candidate pool should reflect the backgrounds of the students being served. Also, when developing selection criteria, consider how advanced you need tutors to be when it comes to understanding systemic oppression and being anti-racist. Some programs look for an openness to learning and an acknowledgement of intrinsic bias as this sets the foundation for future training.
02/16/2021. Tool
Why build an intentional recruitment plan?
The more applicants your program can recruit, the more selective you can be when choosing tutors. If your program cannot recruit enough qualified tutors, it must either serve fewer students or provide each student with less support. Poor recruitment can make it harder for your program to serve its mission, starting a downward spiral of lower impact, less funding, and fewer high-quality tutors.
02/16/2021. Tool
Why create a tutor job description?
If your program plans to recruit tutors from outside the community, you will need a job description to post online or otherwise circulate. If your program plans to rely on teachers at partner schools, students’ families, or peer tutors, you should still create a job description internally for selection purposes. The checklist and the examples below will help you make sure your job description gets read, attracts applicants, and targets the specific kind of candidates you think would make ideal tutors in your program.
02/16/2021. Tool
Implementation Checklist
Delineate training content based on Model Dimensions and selection criteria for tutors
Establish a clear structure for pre-service and in-service training, including frequency, format, facilitator, etc.
Ensure inservice training is responsive to performance evaluations, stakeholder feedback, and student performance data
Collect feedback from tutors on trainings and incorporate insights and lessons from feedback to improve training effectivene
02/16/2021. Tool
Implementation Checklist
Outline and implement all pre-entry legal requirements based on district, state, and institutional regulations
Outline a clear support and management structure for tutors, including who will observe and evaluate tutors
Clearly delineate and communicate all expectations, policies, and procedures to tutors prior to the start of tutoring
Articulate a performance evaluation process to ensure tutors meet performance expectations