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2023-2024 Wittenberg University High-Impact Tutoring Program Implementation Report

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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).

The Reading Alliance

The Reading Alliance works to unleash the power of community working together to solve the literacy problem our students face. We believe all children should be reading at grade level by the end of third grade— the time at which reading to learn, and not just learning to read, becomes essential.
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Seaside SpEd

Seaside SpEd is a women- and disabled-owned tutoring organization that helps all students achieve their elementary math, literacy, writing, and social skills goals.

Tutors2Teachers

The Tutor2Teacher program integrates rigorous academic and practical experiences to inspire, cultivate, and educate an AI-literate teacher pipeline while addressing district needs for improved student outcomes. T2T brings together classroom teachers as mentors and high school students as tutor-apprentices, creating a collaborative ecosystem where experienced educators guide high schoolers in building the skills and expertise necessary to support struggling learners in their districts.

iEducate

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iEducate partners with local Houston area schools and districts to provide High Impact Tutoring on Title 1 campuses leveraging college students as tutors. Our Programs team works closely with school leadership and staff to implement our Tier I (classroom) and Tier II (pullout) models in alignment with High Impact Tutoring, as well as provide quality, ongoing instructional coaching to tutors through observation debriefs and regular professional development.

Tutoring may not significantly improve attendance

In early 2024, initial reports indicated that tutoring might not only help kids catch up academically after the pandemic but could also combat chronic absenteeism. More recent research, however, suggests that prediction may have been overly optimistic.

Stanford University researchers have been studying Washington, D.C.’s $33 million investment in tutoring, which provided extra help to more than 5,000 of the district’s 100,000 students in 2022-23, the second year of a three-year tutoring initiative. When researchers looked at these students’ test scores, they found minimal to modest improvements in reading or math.

“We weren’t seeing a ton of big impacts on achievement,” said Monica Lee, one of the Stanford researchers. “But what we were seeing at that point in time were promising findings that the tutoring might be doing something for attendance.” 

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Cosmo

Cosmo provides premium online, 1:1 tutoring to students at all levels of learning and every demographic. Every student deserves the very best tutoring from the very best teaching professionals. Our tutors are US-based teaching professionals with degrees from top universities and a minimum of five years of teaching experience.

Each student receives a personalized learning plan customized by their Cosmo teacher meeting each student's individual learning goals, style, pace, interests and local school curriculum and standards.

Neighborhood Educational Partners

Our program provides personalized, high-quality instruction to cohorts of 5-15 students, supported by two dedicated instructors. This approach ensures individualized attention, fosters collaborative learning, and promotes academic success in a supportive and inclusive environment. We serve students in middle school and high school for Mathematics, and we place a strong emphasis on helping students pass the New York State Algebra I exam, which are currently required for graduation in NYS.

Beyond Basics

Beyond Basics provides one-on-one, phonics-based literacy tutoring. We work with school staff to identify which students are in need of intervention. We then administer a diagnostic assessment that indicates where the student struggles with reading. They are then paired with a tutor who will work with them individually for the duration of the program. Our assessments allow the tutor to create personalized lesson plans geared toward the child's unique learning needs. The student and tutor meet five days per week, for an hour each day during school hours.

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