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What is a Landscape Analysis?
A Landscape Analysis outlines the strengths, resources, and needs of a particular community. It provides a framework for designing a service and ensuring that it is embedded directly in the needs of the community.
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What is a Logic Model?
A Logic Model is a road map for thinking through how to create a desired change or outcome. Creating such a model requires a top-level articulation of the inputs and actions required for a program to produce results, and an adherence to a consistent internal logic regarding how the design of a program relates to its goals. For any tutoring program, a Logic Model should explain how the model itself, the supports, and the stakeholders will interact to produce the results that you aim to achieve for students.
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Critical Questions
What are the critical qualities for tutors in this program?
How will the program recruit and select tutors to ensure a diverse cohort?
How will the program recruit and select tutors to ensure they have the necessary skills?
What expectations and processes will be set for tutors to ensure effectiveness and safety?
How will the program train and support tutors?
How will the training incorporate diversity, equity, and inclusion?
Sub Element
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Critical Questions
How will the program engage stakeholders to ensure tutoring aligns with classroom curricula?
How will tutors leverage stakeholders to build their understanding of student needs to tailor tutoring?
How will tutors build trust with stakeholders?
Sub Elements
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Critical Questions
What academic content will tutoring sessions focus on?
How should tutoring sessions be structured and facilitated to affirm students’ academic and personal identities, build strong relationships, and ensure students master the content?
Sub Elements
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Critical Question
What data will the program collect to measure impact?
How will these data reflect a holistic understanding of students’ experiences?
What processes will be in place to review and act upon collected data?
How will these review processes promote equity and reduce bias?
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Program Design Decisions: Model Dimensions and Related Considerations
As you design a tutoring program, you will have numerous decisions to make that influence and impact one another. On the left column of the table below are Model Dimensions of tutoring programs; on the right are corresponding Considerations that allow you to contemplate how interactions among model design decisions may impact your tutoring program.
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With a clear program focus, value proposition, logic model, cost estimate and initial model dimension decisions, you can begin implementation. The toolkit provides implementation guidance and tools for each of the seven elements of high-impact tutoring. The Tool Appendix gives the full range of tools.
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What is a Value Proposition?
A Value Proposition is a concise articulation of the value an organization delivers should someone choose to use their program. It consists of two core components: the Challenge (or unmet need) that the program intends to address and the Approach that states how the program provides value to address that challenge. It distinguishes the program from other seemingly similar programs by highlighting what makes its approach uniquely well-suited to solving a specific problem or particularly efficient at meeting a specific unmet need.
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Critical Questions
Why and for whom is this tutoring program needed?
How will this tutoring program increase equity?
Implementation Checklist
Understand the community strengths, resources and needs through a landscape analysis
Articulate an equity-based value proposition about unmet student needs identified through the landscape analysis
Develop a logic model defining inputs, activities, outputs, and outcomes
Understand program costs and f
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Whether you are designing a new program or seeking to improve an existing one, deeply understanding your program’s value proposition, logic model and the landscape in which your program operates will help to focus your efforts most beneficially. This analysis and resulting understanding will provide the foundation and context needed to design a cohesive, high-impact tutoring program.
Designing a program is best done iteratively. Here is a suggested process: