Instructional Coach

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.

Provides $30,000,000 for high-impact tutoring statewide.

Revises the Read to Achieve Program in many ways, one of which is including tutoring as part of the definition of literacy interventions.

Provides literacy-based high-dosage tutoring to accelerate reading achievement for K-5 students in Mississippi using college students funded through Americorps. The 2021 pilot program served 1,000 students in grades K-5 in literacy with a focus on relationship-development using GEER funds.

Requires many efforts to combat COVID-19 impact on education including funding for community partnerships to provide tutoring during the summer of 2021.

Requires the original K-3 requirement of Transitional Supplemental Instruction for Struggling Learners program to add additional components: 1) funding for one-on-one and small-group instruction for students who are not, or are not on track to, reading at grade level by grade 3; 2) funding for students who are not proficient in math (with priority to reading) and 3) extend services to grades 4 - 12.

Creates two statewide tutoring initiatives targeting PK-12 students who are in districts or communities with limited capacity or resources to deliver high-quality tutoring programs. The Illinois Tutoring Initiative provides high-impact tutoring to districts statewide through Illinois public Universities and Community Colleges. The district-led high-impact tutoring program provides grants to districts interested in creating and operating their own high-impact tutoring program.