Set up a regular cycle of tutoring family communication, keeping these continual updates best practices in mind will help to increase success for your high-dosage tutoring program.
High-Dosage Tutoring: Recruiting, Selecting and Training Guides
Choosing the right people for the job is critical: tutors’ values should align with your own and tutors’ skills should be suited to their work. This toolkit has strategies and tools for tutors for recruiting, selecting and training tutors.
Equity Focused Resources: Toolkit for Tutoring Programs
Share this National Student Support Accelerator equity toolkit, specifically focused on tutors, with schools or hiring managers when recruiting, selecting and training tutors.
Session Structure for High-Dosage Tutoring from the National Student Support Accelerator
Similar to classroom instruction, tutoring sessions should be carefully planned, proactive and relate to the grade-level content students are learning in the classroom. Help leaders guide tutors to have consistent structure and flow in their tutoring session design using this exemplar tutoring session structure from the National Student Support Accelerator.
Information Brief: RTI Scheduling Processes for Middle Schools
School days are packed, but leaders must prioritize specific tutoring times in order to truly accelerate learning. This brief from the National Center on Response to Intervention has helpful approaches to and questions for optimal scheduling. See page four to learn more about how other institutions have established daily intervention classes.
Strategies for Scheduling: How to Find Time to Intensify and Individualize Intervention
School days are packed, but leaders must prioritize specific tutoring times in order to truly accelerate learning. Help schools find time in the day using these three strategies for scheduling from the National Center on Intensive Intervention.
EdWorkingPaper: A Blueprint for Scaling Tutoring Across Public Schools
Various strategies support learning acceleration, but implementing tutoring is at the core. Some tutoring models use recent college graduates who receive stipends and a recent paper from Brown University presents a scalable model where high school students tutor elementary students via an elective class, college students work in middle schools via federal work-study and college students are …
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High-Impact Tutoring: State of the Research and Priorities for Future Learning
Various strategies support learning acceleration, but implementing tutoring is at the core. Hiring highly qualified tutors are shown to have the most effective outcomes, though well-trained paraprofessionals or volunteers can reduce costs.
High-Dosage Tutoring: A Proven Strategy to Accelerate Student Learning Guide
Various strategies support learning acceleration, but implementing tutoring is at the core. The Office of the State Superintendent of Education in Washington, DC created a guide detailing specific features and practical considerations for establishing and managing effective high-dosage tutoring programs. See page four for clear description of what high-dosage tutoring is and isn’t.
Tutoring Program Model Dimensions Planning Tool
Various strategies support learning acceleration, but implementing tutoring is at the core. Keeping design principles in mind, these ten multiple-choice questions to design school tutoring programs’ model dimensions from the National Student Support Accelerator will guide leaders or practitioners to startup.