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How Portland Public Schools can afford to offer high-impact tutoring
“We have a lot of work to do,” Hudson said, which is why the 43,500-student district has zeroed in on providing high-impact tutoring.
Joined by Stanford University’s Nancy Waymack, Soto and Hudson shared what Portland has learned from its efforts during a July 12 session at UNITED, the National Conference on School Leadership.
High-impact tutoring is a data-driven service that is embedded into the school day and uses consistent, well-supported tutors, said Waymack, director of research, partnerships and policy for Stanford University’s National Student Support Accelerator. The tutors use high-quality instructional materials and hold sessions at least three times a week in small groups of no more than four students, she said.
Chapter One
Chapter One provides 1:1 high-impact literacy tutoring for K-5, led by our Early Literacy Interventionists who we hire, train, and manage. Our ESSA Tier 1 certified model uses a unique "short burst" approach where students receive multiple sessions per week, each lasting no more than 10 minutes. Tutoring takes place in the classroom and during the school day. Beyond the tutoring sessions, students can also practice with the exact content they just reviewed on our proprietary student platform or with authentic texts, provided as part of the program.
PEAK Literacy
PEAK Literacy helps students struggling with reading quickly catch up to their peers. We leverage technology, supportive feedback, and encouragement from a personal reading coach to empower kids to succeed. Most of our students see more than a year of reading growth in just the first three months!
Tutor Doctor North County San Diego
Tutor Doctor Northwest Carlsbad offers both in-person and virtual tutoring options to ensure accessibility for everyone. We specialize in academic tutoring, test preparation, and Executive Functioning Coaching. Our academic tutoring covers core subjects like reading, math, writing, and science, with personalized lessons tailored to each student's individual needs. Our expert test prep services focus on standardized exams such as the SAT, ACT,GRE and ASVAB. We incorporate proven test-taking strategies and create customized study plans to help students succeed.
Wise - Tutor Management Software
Wise is a all-in-one platform that helps you host, manage, and scale your business effortlessly. Automate scheduling with 2-way sync, simplify invoicing, generate student reports for parents, and streamline tutor management. Your tutors will love its features too, like automated attendance, real-time learner engagement metrics, AI polls and quizzes, and gamified sessions—all designed to create an exceptional learning experience.
The Key Resource of Time: Master Schedules and Effective Allocation of Students and Educators
A central challenge facing education leaders is allocating limited resources in pursuit of their priorities. Three of their critical resources are time, money, and people. A school's master schedule reflects the allocation of all three of these critical resources and ultimately determines the educational opportunities available to students. A school’s schedule dictates who will be teaching them, what they will be learning, where this learning will take place, and how much instruction they will receive.
2024-25 Snapshot of State Tutoring Policies
Over the past three school years, districts and states have worked to recover the academic ground they lost over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic and chip away at stubborn gaps in academic performance. Many turned to high-impact tutoring, a research-based approach to providing individualized instruction to students. In the School Pulse Panel Survey in October, 2024, 78% of responding schools reported having some type of tutoring for students and 37% reported offering high-dosage tutoring or what we refer to as high-impact tutoring.
2023-2024 Wittenberg University High-Impact Tutoring Program Implementation Report
In recent years, school districts across the U.S. have invested in high-impact tutoring as a promising approach to accelerate K12 student learning. Such efforts to scale tutoring have focused on design elements proven to be the most effective on student outcomes, namely consistent instruction from a trained tutor, integration with classroom instruction, tutoring informed by data, using quality curricula, and occurring at least three times per week (Nickow et al., 2024). Studies indicate that effective tutoring programs share these core characteristics, even while they vary in the types of tutors they employ, scheduling strategy, and in-person or virtual delivery model (Cortes et al., 2024; Robinson et al., 2024).
Tutoring Program in Oakland, Calif. Recruits Parents and Neighbors to Teach Math
Oakland REACH and district staff trained tutors based on the National Student Support Accelerator’s high-impact tutoring program, which requires weekly small-group support, close monitoring of student progress, alignment with district curriculum and oversight by school staff.