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.
Score Institute’s High-Dosage Tutoring Planning and Implementation Guide
Various strategies support learning acceleration, but implementing tutoring is at the core. The Score Institute’s High Dosage Tutoring Planning and Implementation Guide includes a helpful section (pages 4-6) on preparing to staff your tutoring program.
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.
Accelerating Student Learning with High-Dosage Tutoring
Various strategies support learning acceleration, but implementing tutoring is at the core. Brown University’s Annenberg Institute outlines approaches to and research for supporting accelerating Student Learning with High-Dosage Tutoring. See page two for a one-page guide to the ten design principles for effective tutoring.
Using Data to Inform Instruction
Creating strategic data cycles from assessment data will support schools in optimal prioritization. Educators need diagnostic data to inform them of students’ mastery of grade-appropriate knowledge and skills. This interactive step-by-step data tool from Great Schools Partnership helps academic leaders and teachers harness data to inform instructional practices.
7 Smart, Fast Ways to Do Formative Assessment
Creating strategic data cycles from assessment data will support schools in optimal prioritization. Educators need diagnostic data to inform them of students’ mastery of grade-appropriate knowledge and skills. Continual formative assessment will help teachers and schools assess progress towards grade level. This article from Edutopia outlines seven key formative assessment strategies that teachers can implement using templates …
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How to Select Math Intervention Content
To accelerate learning for various learning levels, scaffolds are temporary instructional supports designed to help students successfully access grade-appropriate activities just beyond their current independent ability. This Achieve the Core resource helps math teachers diagnose the root cause of grade-level challenges and design targeted scaffolds and interventions to address them.
Meeting Students’ Needs Through Scaffolding Grid
To accelerate learning for various learning levels, scaffolds are temporary instructional supports designed to help students successfully access grade-appropriate activities just beyond their current independent ability. This resource from Expeditionary Learning helps ELA teachers use front-end scaffolding (i.e., preparing students to better understand how to access complex text before they read it) and back-end scaffolding (i.e., helping …
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Assignment Review Protocols
Create a shared understanding of grade-level work is an important part of igniting learning. These assignment review protocols from TNTP, useful for PD or content meetings, share tools to help instructional leaders and teachers determine if an assignment gives students the opportunity to engage in grade-level content and can create shared understanding of grade level.