Tuesday, May 5, 2026
Stanford Graduate School of Education ANKO Building
Welcome Dinners
These small group dinners, held at local restaurants, offer a chance for attendees to connect prior to the main conference.
Dinners are sponsored by: Accelerate, Air Tutors, PAPER, PEARL, Pencil Spaces, Tutor.com, & SAGA.
Wednesday, May 6, 2026
Stanford Arrillaga Alumni Center
McCaw Hall
Human Connections in a Digital Age: The Next Chapter for High-Impact Tutoring
Opening remarks from Stanford Professor & Founding Director of NSSA, Dr. Susanna Loeb. Introduction to the conference from Edgar Palacios, Family & Caregiver Advisory Member, NSSA.
Susanna Loeb
Executive Director
National Student Support Accelerator
Edgar Palacios
Family & Caregiver Advisory Member
National Student Support Accelerator
McCaw Hall
Lessons & Insights from Leading Districts
Raymond Pierce (Moderator)
CEO
Southern Education Foundation
Adrienne Battle
Superintendent
Metro Nashville Public Schools
Karla Estrada
Deputy Superintendent
Los Angeles Unified School District
McCaw Hall
What is the cost of personalized learning - and is it worth it?
Monica Bhatt
Senior Research Director
University of Chicago Education LabIncorporating Tutoring Cost Analysis into Program Evaluation Research
Nathan Storey
Research Associate
Johns Hopkins University Center for Research and Reform in Education (CRRE)
Barnes/McDowell/Cranston
The Role of Human Support in Student Engagement with AI Tutoring Platforms
Carly Robinson
Director of Research, SCALE Initiative
Stanford UniversityRecruiting disadvantaged students for free online tutoring by university students in Germany
Malte Sandner
Research Professor
TH Nürnberg OHM & IAB
Lane/Lyons/Lodato
Beneficial Impacts of Goal-setting with Rewards on Tutoring
Shivang Gupta
Managing Director, PLUS
Carnegie Mellon UniversityTransforming Learning with Generative AI: Creating the Right Environment for Mastery and Engagement
Phil Oreopoulos
Professor
University of Toronto
McCaw Hall
Scaling Statewide: How Louisiana is Building a High-Impact Tutoring System for Literacy
Jennifer Krajewski (Moderator)
Director of Outreach and Engagement
Johns Hopkins University School of Education
Shavonne Garner-Price
Executive Director of Teaching and Learning
Jefferson Parish Schools
Jodi Lemoine
Director of Accountability and Curriculum
West Feliciana Parish Schools- Nathan Storey
Research Associate
Johns Hopkins University Center for Research and Reform in Education (CRRE)
Barnes/McDowell/Cranston
Workshop: High-Impact Tutoring in Underserved Schools without Burnout
Jaleesa Hall
Founder & CEO
Raising A Village Foundation
Hannah Hong
Connected Schools Manager / Librarian
Malcolm X Elementary School
Lane/Lyons/Lodato
Your Future Teachers are Hiding in Plain Sight: Tutoring as a Pathway to the Classroom
Michael Duffy (Moderator)
President
GO Tutor Corps
Ashley Bencan
Chief of Staff
New Jersey Tutoring Corps
Katie Hooten
Founder & Senior Vice President
Teach for America's Ignite Fellowship
Shereen Johnson
Director of Teacher Residency
GO Tutor Corps
Patrick Steck
Vice President of External Affairs
Deans for Impact
McCaw Hall
A comparison of the effects of in-person and virtual literacy tutoring for elementary students
Robin Jacob
Research Professor
University of MichiganInvesting in Human Capital during Wartime: Experimental Evidence from Online Tutoring in Ukraine
Renata Lemos
Senior Economist
World Bank
Barnes/McDowell/Cranston
Tutor Coach: Investigating the use and effectiveness of math tutoring practices with human and AI tutors
Ana Ribeiro
Senior Research Associate
Stanford UniversityPracticing How to Teach With AI: Do simulated tutoring sessions improve tutor instructional skills?
Paul Yoo
SCALE Postdoctoral Fellow
Stanford University
Lyons/Lodato
Navigating the ESSER Cliff: How Districts are Sustaining High‑Impact Tutoring After Federal Relief
Ayesha Hashim
Lead Research Scientist
NWEAHigh-Impact Virtual Tutoring Within MTSS: Longitudinal Literacy Growth and Learning Trajectory Changes Among Elementary Students
Hsiaolin Hsieh
Research Project Lead
Stanford University
Lane
Workshop: Learning from Tutoring Dialogue: An Introduction to Sandpiper, an Annotation Tool from the National Tutoring Observatory
Justin Reich
Associate Professor of Digital Media
MIT
Rachel Slama
Associate Director, Future of Learning Lab
Cornell University
Kirk Vanacore
Research Director, National Tutoring Observatory
Cornell University
McCaw Hall
Built For Learning: Preserving Productive Struggle in AI Tools for High-Impact Tutoring
Marisa Mission (Moderator)
Senior Analyst
Bellwether
Sarah Akhtar
Managing Director of AI Partnerships
Quill
Jennie Dougherty
Director of Strategic Initiatives
KIPP Public Schools Northern California
Meghan McCormick
Senior Research & Impact Officer
Overdeck Family Foundation
Teryn Thomas
Founder & CEO
EdLight
Barnes/McDowell/Cranston
High-Impact Tutoring and the Federal Tax Credit Scholarship
Thomas Toch (Moderator)
Director
FutureEd
Rachel Canter
Director of Education Policy
Progressive Policy Institute
Alejandro Gibes de Gac
CEO & Founder
Springboard Collaborative
Lauren May
Vice President
Step Up For Students
Lodato/Lyons
Workshop: From Fragmented to Coherent: Embedding High-Impact Tutoring Within a Unified MTSS Framework
Tamara Arroyo
Teacher on Special Assignment
Cleveland Elementary
Oakland Unified School District
Sarah Scott Frank
Founder & CEO
OpenLiteracy
Jennifer Welch
Teacher on Special Assignment
Carl B. Munck Elementary
Oakland Unified School District
Lane
Workshop: Scaling Personalization for Multilingual Learners: A virtual HDT case study
Alexa Catao
Senior Program Architect
Tutored by Teachers
Becky Corr
Director of Language & Cultural Engagement
Douglas County School District
McCaw Hall
Bridging Human and Digital: Rethinking Relationships in Learning
Joanna Cannon (Introduction)
Senior Program Officer
Walton Family Foundation
Susanna Loeb (Moderator)
Executive Director
National Student Support Accelerator
Jean Claude Brizard
CEO
Digital Promise
Linda Darling-Hammond
Chief Knowledge Officer
Learning Policy Institute
McCaw Hall
Takeaways for the Next Chapter of High-Impact Tutoring
Speakers:
Alexander Aldama
Community Program Coordinator and former Tutee
East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring- Susanna Loeb
Executive Director
National Student Support Accelerator - Edgar Palacios
Family and Caregiver Advisory Member
National Student Support Accelerator
Discussion:
Jesse Silberberg (Moderator)
Portfolio Manager
Overdeck Family Foundation
Matt Barrow
Director of Services
Pearl
Janice Page
Assistant Superintendent of Academics
eStem Public Charter Schools
Nakia Towns
President
Accelerate