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01/03/2022. Event
Tutoring programs have become a leading strategy to address COVID-19 learning loss. What evidence-based principles can district and school leaders draw on to design, implement, measure, and improve high-quality tutoring programs? And what are districts who are piloting these programs learning about how to maintain fidelity to those principles, while also adapting to the specific needs of their contexts?
12/23/2021. Article
Consider Saga Education, the high-dosage math tutoring program we founded and lead. About 30 percent of our tutoring fellows – recent college graduates and seasoned professionals alike – have used their work with us as springboards to jobs in the classroom. Most arrive with no training or experience in education, only an aptitude for algebra and an eagerness to support students. After being embedded in a school for a year or more, many discover a passion for teaching they never knew they had.
12/22/2021. Article
Studies are few and mixed about the effectiveness of online versus in-person tutoring, but “many districts are struggling to recruit a sufficient number of tutors locally – especially those districts in rural areas or those that are focusing on higher-level or more technical courses such as calculus. While in-person tutoring may be preferred, for some locations and courses virtual is the best option,” Susanna Loeb, director of the Annenberg Institute at Brown University and education professor, tells SmartBrief.
12/10/2021. Article
“Many educators are understandably exhausted from these past 18 months of school disruptions,” said Susanna Loeb, director of the Annenberg Institute at Brown University. “Implementing a new program — no matter how much funding is available for it or how much research supports its effectiveness — takes effort.”
12/03/2021. General
Substantial new federal funds, such as those from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), are allowing districts to provide students with services such as tutoring that were not financially feasible in the past.
Are these new programs cost-effective enough to merit allocating other funds to sustain them, such as Title I and Title IV funding, after ARPA funding runs out in 2024?
12/01/2021. Article
High-dosage/low ratio tutoring has “consistently proven to accelerate achievement as quickly as possible” for all students regardless of their demographics, age, or whether they are from rural, suburban or urban areas, said Penny Schwinn, the state’s education commissioner.
Indeed, research shows that tutoring programs that serve children in small groups with regular, frequent sessions can increase learning by up to 10 months, according to a synthesis of research by Brown University’s Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
11/23/2021. Article
Dr. Carly Robinson, a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, shares the research and best practices school systems should use in their tutoring strategy this year to address unfinished learning from COVID-19. Haughton Elementary School in Bossier Parish is spotlighted during the What’s Making Me Smile segment for their fun and engaging instruction.
11/22/2021. Article
Relationships like that take time to develop. “It is often easier to train a tutor on content than it is to train a tutor on relationship-building and tutoring approach,” Susanna Loeb, director of the Annenberg Institute at Brown University and education professor, tells SmartBrief, noting that content knowledge is more of a factor when working with upper-grade math students or multilingual students.
11/15/2021. Article
11/11/2021. Event
Most states as well as the federal government have landed on tutoring as a key strategy to address unfinished learning from the pandemic.
Take math, for example. Studies have found that students lost more ground in math during the last school year than any other subject. Students and teachers desperately need support to combat fatigue and accelerate learning. How can schools implement effective math tutoring programs while balancing competing priorities in an ever-changing environment?
11/01/2021. Article
Millions of students, including those with disabilities, have experienced interrupted instruction due to school closures and shifts between remote and hybrid learning models. This webisode discussed the role that evidence-based tutoring programs can play within a Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) to address a range of student needs and accelerate learning for all students and with an emphasis on students with disabilities. Jen Krajewski from ProvenTutoring and Dr.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Requires all DCPS schools to implement high-impact tutoring for students in need, reaching approximately 10% of all students.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Requires an accelerated learning committee to develop an IEP for every student who does not pass pass the STAAR test in grade 3, 5, or 8 in math or reading. Also, requires the assignment of a certified master, exemplary, or recognized teacher or participation in tutoring for any student who does not pass the STAAR test in grades 3–8 or STAAR (EOC) end-of-course assessments. Requirements are to begin in fall 2021 based on spring 2021 test results.
Tutoring must:
10/27/2021. Legislation
Creates TN Accelerating Literacy and Learning Corps, a matching grant opportunity to empower districts to implement or strengthen tutoring supports for students in low ratios and at a high dosage, with TN ALL Corps tutoring occurring for small groups of students in 30–45-minute sessions, two to three times per week. For every student tutored, the department will provide $700 per student per year, while a district contributes $800 per year per student. This amount covers at least 15% of district students in 1st – 8th grades in year one.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Partners with local schools to recruit, educate, and activate corps members to support students and accelerate learning through tutoring in NC's neediest districts. Corps members are paid a living wage by schools to work part-time as high-impact K-3 literacy tutors grounded in the science of reading and reading instruction. Corps members and school administrators benefit from a common recruitment and application process, training, and ongoing support provided by NCEC.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Provides $30,000,000 for high-impact tutoring statewide.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Revises the Read to Achieve Program in many ways, one of which is including tutoring as part of the definition of literacy interventions.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Provided tutoring to 2,000 students in the summer of 2021 and is expanding to 42 sites in fall of 2021.
Launched by The College of New Jersey’s School of Education, and paid for by he New Jersey Pandemic Relief Fund and the Overdeck Family Foundation. Over the summer, teacher prep programs provided small group tutoring at least three times per week in local nonprofits such as Boys and Girls Clubs.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Provides tutoring for 1,000 students in grades K-5 in literacy with a focus on relationship-development in its Pilot Program. Tutors are college students and funding is from GEER funds. Tutoring is 1:1 for at least 3 hours each week outside of the school day.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Requires many efforts to combat COVID-19 impact on education including funding for community partnerships to provide tutoring during the summer of 2021.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Requires the original K-3 requirement of Transitional Supplemental Instruction for Struggling Learners program to add additional components: 1) funding for one-on-one and small-group instruction for students who are not, or are not on track to, reading at grade level by grade 3; 2) funding for students who are not proficient in math (with priority to reading) and 3) extend services to grades 4 - 12.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Provides high-quality, open access math and literacy tutoring lessons aligned with state standards. Lessons focus on acceleration rather than remediation. The Louisiana Department of Education (LDOE) is allocating $1 million in seed money to begin the initiative.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Creates two statewide tutoring initiatives targeting PK-12 students who are in districts or communities with limited capacity or resources to deliver high-quality tutoring programs. The Illinois Tutoring Initiative provides high-impact tutoring to districts statewide through Illinois public Universities and Community Colleges. The district-led high-impact tutoring program provides grants to districts interested in creating and operating their own high-impact tutoring program.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Includes provision for high school juniors and seniors to satisfy community service requirements by providing 75 verified tutoring hours to students with a substantial deficiency in reading in kindergarten through grade 3, among others.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Requires school districts to (1) adopt high quality and consistent instruction materials (2) provide school leaders and teachers professional learning to provide Tier 1 education to students and address student learning needs (3) create balanced assessment system and provide data on learning loss, and (4) reexamine and create support structures to accelerate student learning (ex. high dosage tutoring).
10/27/2021. Legislation
Creates the Colorado high-impact tutoring program to provide grant funding to local education providers including school districts and charter schools and others, to create high-impact tutoring programs to address student learning loss and unfinished learning due to the presence of the COVID-19 pandemic in Colorado.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Funded through private philanthropy (Gary Community Ventures), provides trained and supervised tutors to work in CO schools in elementary literacy and middle grades math.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Includes funding for the California for All College Corps which provides undergraduate students at 46 colleges and universities across California the opportunity to earn $10,000 for committing to one year of service focused on three key issue areas for the state: K-12 education (tutoring and mentoring), climate action and food insecurity. Plans are for 3,250 students to be deployed in the 2022-23 school year with approximately 50% being tutors or mentors.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Creates the California Leadership, Excellence, Academic, Diversity, and Service-Learning (LEADS) Tutoring Program to provide both in-person and online tutoring to rectify learning loss. Each county office of education will implement the tutoring program in their area. Once the list of participating school districts is announced (on or before June 1, 2022), the bill makes all public K-12 school students in districts that meet criteria eligible to participate in supplemental individualized learning assistance.
10/27/2021. Legislation
Establishes a statewide Arkansas Tutoring Corps (with a focus on rural areas), to address interrupted learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Stipulations include:
- Should address the immediate emergency as well as lay the groundwork for a long-term, sustainable strategy
- Tutors must be qualified (as defined by the Division of Elementary and Secondary Education), trained and provided ongoing support
- Developed for K-6th grade math and reading
- Tutoring curriculum must be aligned with state standards