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This database includes an initial set of organizations that offer tutoring, technology platforms or academic interventions along with relevant information if available.  This is not meant to be an inclusive list, but a starting point. We welcome additional organizations to join the database by completing this form

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  • Tutoring programs are those organizations that offer one-on-one and/or small group tutoring directly to students, either in-person, virtually, or through both modes of delivery. 
  • Technology platforms are technology platforms that facilitate tutoring programs.
  • Interventions offer materials (e.g., an instructional scope and sequence, placement assessment, progress monitoring tools) that are used by a tutoring program, but do not offer tutoring directly.  

This database is intended for Districts, States or nonprofits to identify potential tutoring partners, for potential tutors to identify potential employers and for tutoring organizations to have a clearer understanding of the landscape and to identify interventions that might be useful to their programs, if needed.

Please note that some of these programs are also listed on ProvenTutoring.org where you can find additional information on relevant research studies and costs.


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Characteristics of the Typical Low-Achieving Learner: Literacy-based programming for participants offers hope for reversing the trend of poor student achievement. It hails from cognitive science and reading development research which connects learning and reading as a route to higher-than-expected achievement among participants with poor comprehension skills and competence. Typically, the low-achieving student can be described broadly as a typical novice learner; for him or her, traditional approaches to learning do not work. Oftentimes, he (or she) is a student having trouble constructing meaning from text, the primary mechanism traditional schools use to teach Participants content and skill. These are Participants who are unable to connect the dots and construct meaning from text and they lack the critical capabilities to engage as thinkers while in the process of reading or learning. For them the experience is a once over unfocused activity with little emerging as more important than anything else. 


Despite targeted efforts in the classroom and schoolwide learning interventions in school, low-achieving participants make limited or stagnant progress as learners and as readers. Cognitive science research indicates that such a learner lacks metacognition, a capability to monitor and regulate a person's thinking processes. Lacking in metacognition, the learner is also lacking in two critically important sub-skills: (a) comprehension monitoring and (b) comprehension fostering capabilities, skills that more capable learners take for granted and that are critical to constructing meaning and thereby comprehension. The importance of students' developing meta-cognitive awareness is paramount to their development as readers and as writers. Why? Because metacognition is the critical BUT missing ingredient among most low performing participants that is required to transform them into better learners, more aware learners, more capable learners. 
 


We provide an individualized approach catered to each student’s academic needs, learning style, and personality. Our flexible tutoring approach maximizes students’ results and improves confidence.


OpenLiteracy partners with school districts, non-profit organizations, and families across the United States to provide 1:1 tutoring for students in grades K-6. OpenLiteracy Tutoring can be implemented during the school day, for instance, during an intervention block or independent reading time, as well as before or after school. Students receive one-on-one instruction from a certified teacher for 30 minutes, three times per week, via OpenLiteracy's virtual classroom. Our COPPA compliant virtual classroom, similar to Zoom, makes it easy to conduct tutoring sessions whenever and wherever needed. OpenLiteracy cares deeply about working in partnership and we regularly communicate baseline and ongoing progress monitoring data as well as attendance.

In addition to providing 1:1 tutoring, OpenLiteracy’s curriculum is available for purchase to use in small group or 1:1 instruction. All lessons are turnkey and ready to use with no additional planning or prep required.


Tutoring using the Orton Gillingham method to help improve student's reading and spelling skills.


Families looking for individualized attention to help their learner excel often face multiple hoops to jump through and limited choices that don't match their needs. Outschool is one of the most trusted names in education because we put families in control of their tutoring journey, offering them a flexible way to find and book an experienced tutor within their budget and schedule. We equip highly rated tutors with tools to give learners undivided attention, support, and care in a seamless, hassle-free online platform that ensures quality instruction anywhere, anytime.


Peer Power recruits and trains high-performing college students, called Success Coaches, to tutor in public classrooms and mentor high school students to encourage active learning, valuing education, and being personally accountable for their futures.


PeerSquared helps those serving K-12 students build peer tutoring programs, so all their students can have accessible, effective, and relatable academic support for better grades and engagement. Unlike other companies serving tutoring needs, we deliver a comprehensive solution by helping our partners train and manage the program's high school tutors, working with all stakeholders to increase utilization, and deploying a tutoring platform to facilitate 1-on-1 tutoring sessions in-person or virtually.


Started as a student club at Cornell to provide summer enrichment for urban youth in NYC, now partners with K-12 schools to provide many programs including tutoring.


Pre-Med Tutors is a service that matches students with tutors. These tutors are what we call "pre-meds"--either undergraduate students, recent graduates, or medical students who desire to work as doctors, dentists, nurses, physical therapists, etc. As such, we have a passion for science, math, learning, teaching, and mentoring. We want to make a difference and strive for perfection.

Prep For Success provides 1-on-1 tutoring in SAT, ACT, LSAT, GRE, GMAT, college applications, etc. We differ from other tutoring companies since our tutors scored in the 99th percentile, if not perfect, and we have over one hundred 5 star reviews on google. Also, the founders are fully invested in the company, giving a small mom-and-pop feel.


We provide an end-to-end solution for high impact tutoring and virtual alternative provision by hiring, training, deploying, quality-assuring, and retraining professional tutoring staff to ensure that over 80% of our enrolled students increase a minimum of one grade in a 15-week period.


With 10+ years in education, the QTI approach is 100% student centered, with a coaching and teaching philosophy that guarantees results though a dynamic, knowledgeable, and enthusiastic approach to the main tenets of literacy and math instruction, executive functioning, Spanish language, plus the self confidence that comes along with excelling in academics.


Rally Reader is an AI-powered e-reading platform for K-12 schools that distributes, supports, and tracks independent reading data along with one-to-one tutoring. We have an array of oral and silent reading features embedded into 120,000+ popular ebooks. Students and teachers can track progress in the dashboard, practice trip words, warm-up with future predicted challenge words, and work towards conquering the 1,000 high frequency words in our word wiz game.

 


Research-based literacy intervention programs designed to accelerate student's reading growth through small-group and one-on-one tutoring in foundational reading skills. Primary focus is on foundational reading skills including phonemic awareness, explicit systematic phonics, fluency, and comprehension.


Reading Assist is a nonprofit organization that provides year-round high-dosage tutoring services to children across Delaware and Pennsylvania with the most significant reading challenges, prioritizing support to low-income students, students of color, and English Language Learners. Since its inception, Reading Assist has helped thousands of readers acquire critical reading skills, changing the trajectory of these learners' lives. To empower students to reach reading proficiency, Reading Assist recruits and trains tutors in its accredited intervention program, equipping them with the skills needed to enhance student literacy in Delaware's and Pennsylvania’s most underserved schools.

Reading Assist tutors work with students performing in the lowest 25% of their peers in reading. School-year tutors consistently bring over 80% of their students to benchmark in early measures of reading ability, such as first sound fluency. 


Evidence-based program that recruits, trains, and supports community volunteers to provide individualized reading instruction to K-4 students


Short-term intervention for first graders in reading and writing. Specially trained teachers tutor 1:1 in daily 30-minute lessons lasting 12-20 weeks.

Reconstruction is a Black owned and Black operated curriculum company that provides small group, live, K-12 supplemental and enrichment courses through an online platform that situates Black people, Black culture and Black heritage and contributions to America and the world in an authentic, identity-affirming manner. These interactive courses are designed to bring joy to students with a blend of academic intensives and cultural exploration curriculum.

We offer in-person and virtual small group tutoring in evidence based reading and writing programs at accessible pricing.


Remind currently provides k-12 math tutoring in alignment with state standards (Common Core or, i.e,. TEKS) and evidence based practice in the areas of math including pre-algebra, algebra 1 and 2, geometry, trig, calculus, stats, and test prep. Remind works with certified and retired teachers and relationships are our focus.


Revolution Prep serves schools, school districts, and community based organizations to provide virtual high availabilty, high impact tutoring and test prep programs. Revolution Prep's faculty members are full-time employees and receive 100+ hours of professional development and training every year, both in content and student engagement "growth mindset" strategies and techniques. Since 2002 Revolution Prep has provided academic success and tutoring programs to nearly 1,000 schools and districts and over 1 million students.


Saga embeds algebra (or geometry) math tutors as a class within the school day. Our tutor teams can serve 20-40 students per period, and the tutors can work in person or online. Tutors work in ratios of 1:2 to 1:4, and we offer four models.


We provide one-to-one tutoring for adult education and high school equivalency preparation (GED/TASC/HiSET) at two Cleveland-area locations, as well as nationally in our Virtual Classroom, conducted through Zoom. Our tutors are all volunteers. Unlike other programs, tutors may work with a different student each day. Because our adult learners did not succeed in more traditional classroom settings, our program offers the ultimate flexibility. 


Our core services include offering comprehensive high impact tutoring which includes building, training, monitoring and being held accountable for a team of tutors for your school as well as providing high impact tutoring directly both virtually and in-person. We also help districts build their own math teacher pipeline by training and supporting para educators and community members to love math, addressing their anxiety and focusing on inclusive math environments for all learners. Our training focuses on building conceptual understanding, problem-solving, and number sense with students. In our five years of business, our virtual and in-person tutoring teams have supported over 3,600 students and over 500,000 student tutoring sessions. We have worked with over 30 schools with a focus on math, namely grades 2-12. With the rising teacher shortage especially in secondary mathematics, our company has evolved to support schools in building math capacity not only within their students, but with their support staff, existing tutors, para educators, substitutes and teachers.


SiSTEM offers online or in-person tutoring sessions in a group or privately. Students age 4 and up can get academic help in science, math, english and foreign language subjects. Our online tutoring sessions are accessible through your smartphone, tablet, or computer right here on our website.


SmartStart provides one-on-one and small-group tutoring services in all levels of mathematics and ELA. SmartStart has provided tutoring services for over 35,000 students, attending hundreds of schools, in over 100 districts. Over 95% of SmartStart’s students come from ethnic/racial minorities. Nearly 25% of SmartStart’s students are English Language Learners, and nearly 15% of our students are designated as having special needs.

SmartStart is flexible and accommodating to school, district, and student needs, and can provide tutoring 7-days per week, in-person or virtually, in school or out, and between the hours of 8:00am and 8:00pm, year-round. SmartStart provides a diverse group of tutors, who work collaboratively to support students. SmartStart can provide either push-in or pull-out tutoring, during school hours or outside of school hours. SmartStart can provide tutor-only programs, or full-implementation programs, which include tutor, curriculum and assessment materials, progress monitoring, and so forth.


Spivey Education is a collection of math educators dedicated to adapting real classroom experience in order to make online math tutoring personalized and effective.


Startup Reading rebalances the resources a teacher employs to deliver reading lessons to the individual student with the appropriate level of personal engagement.

Our approach uses digital reading lessons developed and tested in the classroom and in tutoring sessions to deliver individual reading lessons to the student.

A reading coach oversees the student's assignment, progress, and engagement. The reading coach spends 4-7 minutes with the individual student at the completion of the digital lesson. This reading coach engagement is critical to validating the student's understanding of the lesson and use of the lesson skills to read the content. But the reading coach also provides that essential human connection to the student, developing the student's confidence to read and to progress to more complex content.

The curriculum employs a phonics strategy and is fully aligned with the Science of Reading principles.

The program uses digital reading lessons in a tutoring style format. Each page in the student workbook has a digital lesson explaining a specific reading skill with directions for the student to follow in the examples. The lessons are designed to be presented to a class, a small group, or in a tutoring session.

The curriculum deploys a phonics approach in learning to decode words, aligned with the Science of Reading, by combining the sounds of consonants and vowels to read words followed by phrases and stories.

As a student completes their assigned digital lesson, a reading coach will spend time with the individual student on the following activities:
a) Review the student's completion of notations in the workbook as directed in the lesson.
b) Review the student's understanding of the content and reading skill in the lesson
c) Review the student's comfort in reading the content in the accompanying exercises.

The reading coach acknowledges the student's effort and expresses confidence that the student is making progress in learning to read. A reading coach will develop a mentor relationship with the student, and this individual relationship is a key aspect in successfully implementing the literacy foundation. of the program. We recommend a reading coach can work with 4 to 7 students over a 45-minute to one-hour reading lesson, spending 4-7 minutes with each student.


SuccessMaker is a learning program that functions much like a personal tutor for students. It has a reading and a math component. Your school could be using reading or math or both.


Identify gaps in learning (*focusing on reading intervention) that are preventing student success; and address the gaps in a highly efficient manner, using high-quality phonics curriculum.


The information contained in the Tutoring Database is a compilation of publicly available information and information voluntarily provided by the identified organizations. THIS DATABASE AND ALL ITS CONTENTS ARE PROVIDED AS IS and are for informational purposes only. Neither Brown University nor the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University nor the National Student Support Accelerator make any guarantees, warranties, or representations as to the accuracy or completeness of the database or the information it contains, and none assume any responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that the database may contain. Use of this database is at the sole and exclusive risk of the user, and neither Brown University, nor the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, nor the National Student Support Accelerator shall have any liability for any claim, act, or omission arising out of or in connection with the use of the database.

The inclusion of an organization's information in the Tutoring Database does not indicate that Brown University, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, the National Student Support Accelerator, or any individual associated with these entities endorse or support that organization. The National Student Support Accelerator includes all tutoring programs it is aware of in the Tutoring Database. In contrast, the Accelerator uses the following inclusion criteria for academic intervention materials. To be included, interventions must: 1) have a randomized control trial or quasi-experimental study, 2) that produced an effect size of +0.20 or greater OR 3) have particularly high-quality instructional materials but do not yet have RCT or QES research.