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.
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.
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.
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| Arizona State University | Brent Maddin |
The program profiles below provide a few examples of the variety of ways in which a HEI - District tutoring partnership can be designed and implemented.
Additional program profiles may be found in Saga's Leveraging the Federal Work-Study Program for P-12 Tutoring.
If you would like to suggest a program to be profiled, please email info@studentsupportaccelerator.org.
The purpose of this section is to describe some of the typical challenges that arise and how programs overcome those challenges. While there is never a one-size-fits-all path to overcoming challenges experienced by Higher Education Institution (HEI) tutoring partnership programs with K-12 schools, the solutions offered come from the real-world experiences of leaders that have experienced these challenges in their own contexts.
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Setting: The tutoring occurs during the school day. Integration with School Schedule: If occurring during the school day, the tutoring program strategically considers the tradeoffs of students attending tutoring instead of alternative uses of time. Curricular Alignment: If classroom instruction is based on rigorous and high quality materials, the tutoring program aligns to classroom curricula. |
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Student-Tutor Relationship: The program has an intentional strategy and supporting systems to build strong, positive relationships between students and tutors. Tutor Consistency: Students receive consistent tutoring from the same tutor; any adjustments to groupings occur sparingly and strategically. |
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Instructional Practices: Tutors use research-based instructional practices aimed at fostering academic success and overall student well-being. |
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Dosage: The program provides each student with at least three tutoring sessions per week, with ample time (usually a minimum of 30 minutes per session) for students to engage fully with the material. Ratio: The ratio of student to tutors in the program is low and does not exceed 4:1. |