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Overdeck Family Foundation Awarded 1 Million Ecosystem Grant to NSSA

A two-year grant of $1,000,000 to the National Student Support Accelerator (NSSA), a program devoted to translating research on how tutoring can benefit students into action. This grant will strengthen the high-impact tutoring ecosystem by supporting NSSA in disseminating research on what makes tutoring programs effective to state and local education agencies, ensuring that evidence-based tutoring reaches the students who need it most.

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High-Impact Tutoring Talking Points

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Educator Union Leaders' Guide: High-Impact Tutoring Advocacy

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High-impact tutoring leads to substantial learning gains for students by supplementing (but not replacing) students’ classroom experiences.
High-impact tutoring responds to individual needs and complements students’ existing curriculum.
Tutoring in these programs is completed by another trained adult who will work hand-in-hand with us, the student’s primary educator, to support student learning.
COVID-19 caused extended disruptions for all students and low-income, Black and Latinx students bore

Tutoring isn’t reaching most students. Here’s how to vastly expand it

With “proper supports, such as good materials and coaching, they can be excellent tutors,” said Stanford professor Susanna Loeb, who founded the National Student Support Accelerator to expand access to high-quality tutoring.

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PK - 8 Math Tutoring Resource Library

The content and design of this Resource Library draws on insights from interviews with tutoring program directors, teachers, math directors, STEM directors and other math leaders, as well as from a literature review of peer-reviewed journal articles on math teaching, tutoring, and equitable teaching practices.

The goal of this guide is to provide resources to help tutoring programs provide effective math tutoring for students in need.

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High-Impact Tutoring: Higher Education Institution Playbook

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.

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NEW Tutoring Tool! High-Impact Tutoring: Higher Education Institution Playbook

Are you a college or university leader looking to improve opportunities for your students?

Or maybe you are a district leader looking to partner with a college or university to provide tutoring for your students?

The National Student Support Accelerator’s High Impact Tutoring: Higher Education Institution Playbook supports higher education institutions in partnering with school districts to offer high-impact tutoring services.

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PROOF POINTS: Trial finds cheaper, quicker way to tutor young kids in reading

“These results are big,” said Susanna Loeb, a Stanford professor of education who was a member of the research team and heads the National Student Support Accelerator, a Stanford research organization that studies tutoring and released this study in February 2023. “What’s so exciting about this study is it shows that you can get a lot of the benefits of high impact tutoring – relationship-based, individualized instruction with really strong instructional materials – at a cost that is doable for most districts in the long run.”

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