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06/29/2023. Article
To assist schools in delivering a multi-tiered system of support for all students, Tutor.com and its affiliate company, education services giant The Princeton Review®, are launching High-Dosage Tutoring, which will provide small group tutoring in algebra to accelerate student learning. Developed by education experts and based on the Brown University Annenberg Institute's research-based design principles, High-Dosage Tutoring provides a way for students to make rapid, significant learning gains in algebra, and for teachers to track their progress through Tutor.com's award-winning LEO™ platform. "Every student deserves the opportunity to succeed," said White. "With the relational, frequent, curriculum-based High-Dosage Tutoring model, algebra students who had previously struggled will gain the support they need to overcome interrupted learning and pursue ambitious academic and postsecondary goals."

06/21/2023. Article
We need your help to provide an open-access Tutor Training Resource Library and develop new tutor training materials! Would you be interested in making your tutor training publicly accessible through NSSA’s website? If so, please complete this Tutor Training Resource Library Interest Form. Sharing your training materials is a great way to build awareness of your tutoring program and contribute to the field. You can also indicate interest in setting up a call to discuss this project further through this form.

04/24/2023. Event
Join this invitation-only gathering of researchers, district, state, and higher education leaders, tutoring providers, and funders to: Learn about implications of recent research findings and innovative and sustainable practices in tutoring; Explore successful state and district strategies for scaling and sustainability; and Make connections with education leaders in the field.

03/23/2023. General
The content and design of this Resource Library draws on insights from interviews with tutoring program directors, teachers, math directors, STEM directors and other math leaders, as well as from a literature review of peer-reviewed journal articles on math teaching, tutoring, and equitable teaching practices.  The goal of this guide is to provide resources to help tutoring programs provide effective math tutoring for students in need.

03/22/2023. General
This Playbook aims to support HEIs in partnering with school districts to offer high-impact tutoring services. While HEI staff members are the primary audience, state educational officials, school district staff, and school administrators can leverage many of the resources in the Playbook. 

02/20/2023. Tool
Program Design

02/19/2023. Tool
Adapt this document to advocate for your HEI’s support of a high-impact tutoring partnership with a local K-12 district. What is High-Impact Tutoring and how do higher education institutions partner with school districts?

02/19/2023. Tool
The purpose of this guidance is to provide HEIs with ideas for how to recruit university students to serve as tutors. These ideas are curated from current practices shared by HEI tutoring programs in local K-12 districts. Depending on the population of students you intend to recruit, some of these ideas may be more relevant to your context than others. 

02/19/2023. Tool
Recommended Division of Functions Across HEI Departments Aligned to TQIS Quality Standards 

02/19/2023. Tool
The purpose of this guidance is to provide HEI partners with ideas for how to engage K-12 students more broadly with the HEI community.  This list is curated from practices shared by current HEI tutoring programs in local K-12 districts.  Depending on the design of your program and your HEI campus, some of these ideas may be more relevant to your context than others. 

02/19/2023. Tool
Once the partnership between the HEI and K-12 schools is established, regular meetings between the HEI and K-12 schools ensure that the partnership remains healthy and improves over time.

02/19/2023. Tool
The purpose of this guidance is to provide HEIs seeking opportunities to partner with a school district with information about how to identify districts interested in and/or already offering tutoring services.

02/19/2023. Tool
Use these ten multiple-choice questions to design your tutoring program’s Model Dimensions. Model Dimensions are the specific design choices a new tutoring program makes at the outset. Each choice you make should have a clear rationale supported by your Landscape Analysis and be made in consultation with your school district partner and internal task force/team. 

02/19/2023. Tool
This document outlines costs and funding sources needed to develop and/or grow a tutoring partnership between your HEI and a local K-12 school district. The amount and type of funding needed will be based on the model of your tutoring program. Use this cost calculator and HEI-specific budgeting template to understand your projected costs.

02/16/2023. General
The evidence is clear that tutoring can help students learn. Researchers have studied many tutoring programs and, over and over, have found strong benefits for students. In fact, we know of few other options for helping individual students catch up to grade level. Tutoring is the best known approach for acceleration and it can simultaneously improve student well-being and engagement in school. However “tutoring” can bring to mind many different types of educational support, and tutoring programs can vary both in their characteristics and in their effectiveness.

02/16/2023. Organization
The University of Kansas Center for Research on Learning (KUCRL) is a multidisciplinary research team whose overarching goal is to create solutions to educational challenges. KUCRL is dedicated to development and research of educational programs and practices that improve outcomes for all learners, including those with learning differences or disabilities.

02/16/2023. Organization
Alongside traditional web conferencing tools such as audio, video, drawing canvas/ shapes, and screen sharing, Pisces includes academic collaboration enhancements that enable learners to communicate ideas and solutions in an intuitive and thoughtful way.

02/03/2023. General
In this brief, we present results from a randomized controlled trial of an early elementary reading tutoring program that has been designed to be affordable at scale. During the 2021-22 school year, over eight hundred kindergarten students in a large Southeastern school district were randomly assigned to receive supplementary tutoring with the Chapter One program. The program embeds part-time tutors into the classroom to provide short bursts of instruction to individual students each week over the course of the school year. The consistent presence of the tutors allows them to build strong relationships with students and meet students’ individual needs at the moment they might most benefit from personalized instruction. 

01/26/2023. Organization
NSync Accelerated Learning Solutions offers in-school tutoring, after school tutoring, and summer school tutoring to provide the support students need to catch up on their learning that was interrupted due to the COVID 19 Pandemic.

01/20/2023. Organization
Chariot Learning builds its nationally respected test prep programs on the understanding that amazing teachers and motivated students can accomplish wonders together. We train highly experienced and effective teachers to implement our flexible SAT/ACT combo curriculum to tailor instruction based on where students begin and what their ultimate goals are. We specialize in 1-1 tutoring and small group (4-6 students) classes for either or both tests.

01/11/2023. General
Tutoring Programs Innovations for Learning’s trained Early Literacy Interventionists use their proprietary TutorMate software to provide data-informed, face-to-face, 1:1 high impact tutoring in phonics, sight word acquisition, fluency, and comprehension.

01/11/2023. General
Voyager Sopris’ Sound Partners is a research-based tutoring program that provides individual instruction in early reading skills. Sound Partners benefits students in grades K-2 who are learning to read and provides intervention for students in grades 2-3.