High-Impact Tutoring for the Long-Term through MTSS

Date
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 03:00pm-04:00pm

Live Webinar
Wednesday, November 15, 2023 - 03:00pm-04:00pm (ET)

Join this webinar to learn the benefits of and action steps for integrating intensive, relationship-based, individualized instruction – or high-impact tutoring – into multi-tiered systems of support (MTSS) from experts from research and practice in the field.

Speakers include:

  • Matthew Barrow
    Director of Differentiated Learning, Baltimore City Public Schools

    Matt Barrow is the Coordinator of Academic Tutoring for Baltimore City Public Schools, where he has been an educator for over twelve years. As a middle school teacher, he had the opportunity to teach both ELA and Social Studies for seven years. Since 2018, he has served as the district’s MTSS Coordinator in the Office of Teaching and Learning, where he has applied his passion for building a better system for supporting all students. His work has focused on proactively and systematically empowering educators to collaborate around professional decisions that result in accelerated achievement outcomes for all students, centered on the core belief that by ensuring all students will learn, we will transform the future of Baltimore City. In his current role, Mr. Barrow is working to coordinate the district’s ambitious high-dosage tutoring initiative which connected over 12,000 students with this type of support. They are working to expand their reach to nearly 18,000 students across 129 schools by the end of the 2022-2023 school year.

  • Breckan Duckworth
    Director of Student Acceleration, Hamilton County Schools (TN)

    Breckan Duckworth is the Director of Opportunity & Gap Closure at Hamilton County Schools in Tennessee, where she has been working in various roles since 2018. Prior to joining Hamilton County Schools, she served in various school leadership roles with the Dallas Independent School District, Uplift Education, and Breakthrough Collaborative. Duckworth earned a master’s degree in Educational Leadership from the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

  • Susanna Loeb
    Executive Director, National Student Support Accelerator

    Susanna Loeb is a Professor and Faculty Director of the education policy initiative at the Graduate School of Education at Stanford University. She is also the founder and executive director of the National Student Support Accelerator, which aims to expand access to high-impact tutoring to address inequities in educational opportunities. Prior to returning to Stanford in 2023, Susanna led the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, where she was also Professor of Education and International and Public Affairs. Susanna’s research focuses broadly on education policy and its role in improving educational opportunities for students. Her work has addressed issues of educator career choices and professional development, of school finance and governance, and of early childhood systems. Before moving to Brown, Susanna was the Barnett Family Professor of Education at Stanford. She was the founding director of the Center for Education Policy at Stanford and co-director of Policy Analysis for California Education. Susanna led the research for both Getting Down to Facts projects for California schools. She is an affiliate of NBER and JPAL and a member of the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

  • Lauren Rhim
    Executive Director, Center for Learner Equity

    Lauren Morando Rhim is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of The Center for Learner Equity (CLE). She provides CLE strategic vision and oversees a variety of research, advocacy, coalition developing, and field-based capacity building projects. Lauren’s recent work includes conducting secondary analyses of the federal Civil Rights Data Collection, examining the challenges associated with developing equitable special education funding formulas, and developing a strategic city-based framework for effectively and efficiently educating students with disabilities. Lauren comes to this work out of a passion for and commitment to social justice and an optimist’s belief that we can make public schools work for all learners.

  • Estefania Rios
    Educator, Rahway High School (NJ)

    Estefania Rios is an inclusive educator who strives to create a learning environment that is equitable and accessible for all students. Making an impact on education and the lives of her students is her driving force.

Specifically, integrating high-impact tutoring and MTSS has the potential to:

  • Improve effectiveness of MTSS, and equitable access of high-impact tutoring
  • Reduce challenges of implementing both separately
  • Increase instructional coherence if tutoring is aligned with Tier 1 instruction
  • Streamline operations by including high-impact tutoring in existing schedules and staffing structures

Examples from Maryland, Tennessee, and New Jersey will inspire and provide concrete action steps for education leaders to explore how MTSS and high-impact tutoring might be integrated, creating a cohesive approach with tiered support for students in-need during the school day. 

Register below and mark your calendar for Wednesday, November 15th at 3:00 p.m. ET. 

Thank you for your commitment to improving equitable outcomes for students!