HEI Tool Appendix
Program Design
Tutor
HEI Leadership Engagement
Adapt this document to advocate for your HEI’s support of a high-impact tutoring partnership with a local K-12 district.
What is High-Impact Tutoring and how do higher education institutions partner with school districts?
HEI Tutor Recruitment Ideas
The purpose of this guidance is to provide HEIs with ideas for how to recruit university students to serve as tutors. These ideas are curated from current practices shared by HEI tutoring programs in local K-12 districts. Depending on the population of students you intend to recruit, some of these ideas may be more relevant to your context than others.
Recommended Division of Functions across HEI Departments
Recommended Division of Functions Across HEI Departments
Aligned to TQIS Quality Standards
List of On Campus Event Ideas
The purpose of this guidance is to provide HEI partners with ideas for how to engage K-12 students more broadly with the HEI community. This list is curated from practices shared by current HEI tutoring programs in local K-12 districts. Depending on the design of your program and your HEI campus, some of these ideas may be more relevant to your context than others.
HEI and K-12 School Tutoring Program Meeting Topics
Once the partnership between the HEI and K-12 schools is established, regular meetings between the HEI and K-12 schools ensure that the partnership remains healthy and improves over time.
Guidance for Formalizing District Partnerships Through a Contract or MOU
The purpose of this guidance is to provide HEIs seeking opportunities to partner with a school district with information about how to identify districts interested in and/or already offering tutoring services.
HEI Model Dimensions Questionnaire
Use these ten multiple-choice questions to design your tutoring program’s Model Dimensions. Model Dimensions are the specific design choices a new tutoring program makes at the outset. Each choice you make should have a clear rationale supported by your Landscape Analysis and be made in consultation with your school district partner and internal task force/team.
Cost Considerations and Funding Sources for Higher Education Institution (HEI) Tutoring Partnerships with K-12 School Districts
This document outlines costs and funding sources needed to develop and/or grow a tutoring partnership between your HEI and a local K-12 school district. The amount and type of funding needed will be based on the model of your tutoring program. Use this cost calculator and HEI-specific budgeting template to understand your projected costs.
Types of Tutoring: Effectiveness and Equity
The evidence is clear that tutoring can help students learn. Researchers have studied many tutoring programs and, over and over, have found strong benefits for students. In fact, we know of few other options for helping individual students catch up to grade level. Tutoring is the best known approach for acceleration and it can simultaneously improve student well-being and engagement in school. However “tutoring” can bring to mind many different types of educational support, and tutoring programs can vary both in their characteristics and in their effectiveness.