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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
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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.
03/22/2023. 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.
02/16/2023. 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.
02/03/2023. 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.
10/03/2022. General
High-Impact tutoring – one-to-one or small group instruction in which a human tutor supports students in an academic subject area – has emerged as the primary strategy for addressing Covid19-induced learning interruptions. As tutoring expands nationally, what can we learn from existing research to inform effective planning and implementation?
01/24/2022. Event
Research has shown that in-school tutoring is one of the best ways to support student learning. Illinois State Board of Education offers you a webinar where a team from National Student Support Accelerator at Brown University will provide you an evidence-based foundation and examples on how to implement High-impact Tutoring in your school district. Join us for a presentation along with a testimonial, and an opportunity for questions and answers.
01/16/2022. Event
On January 18, 2022, at 12pm ET, join Nate Casey, CRO of enterprise tutoring platform Pearl, and Susanna Loeb, Director of the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, via Zoom for an information-packed webinar on high-dosage tutoring.
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?
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?
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
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
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
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
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
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
10/05/2021. Event
The U.S. Department of Education’s ED COVID-19 Handbook highlights tutoring as a key strategy for supporting student academic needs and for addressing the impact of lost instructional time due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Funds from the American Rescue Plan can be used to implement high-quality tutoring.
In this 90-minute REL West webinar, presenters will discuss tutoring as a way to address opportunity gaps exacerbated by the pandemic. They will share about evidence-based tools developed by Brown University’s National Student Support Accelerator that facilitate district planning, launch, and continuous improvement of effective tutoring programs.