High-Impact Tutoring: Higher Education Institution Playbook

Formative Assessment: The program provides tutors with support to collect, analyze, and use formative assessment data to inform design of future sessions.

Program Effectiveness and Improvement: The program has demonstrated a commitment to understanding overall program effectiveness and processes for ongoing improvement. 

Tutor Preservice Training: The program provides high-quality onboarding and training, tailored to program context.

Tutor Preservice Training: The program provides high-quality onboarding and training, tailored to program context.

Tutor Recruitment and Selection: The program has a clear recruitment and selection process that results in tutors with the skills and mindsets necessary to be successful in that program.

• How can higher education institutions (HEIs) best leverage existing structures to develop high-impact tutoring partnerships with their local K-12 districts?
• What are the functions best suited for a school or department of education within the HEI to fulfill?
• What are the functions best suited for a volunteer or community support office within the HEI to fulfill?

• What costs are associated with our program design?
• What funding sources are available for this program?
• What does the higher education institution (HEI)’s leadership need to understand to ensure sustainability?

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• How does the higher education institution (HEI) high-impact tutoring partnership with the K-12 district add value to the school district?
• Where are opportunities to align with district priorities and existing strategies?
• What existing district programs best align with tutoring?

• Why and for whom is this tutoring program needed?
• How will these dimensions inform the partnerships needed across departments and/or organizations?
• Who are the stakeholders from your institution that could engage in the program design?