Purpose: Clarify leadership and collaboration roles and responsibilities in tutoring programs based on the selected model. This guidance supports identifying essential roles, tailoring staffing strategies, and aligning priorities to ensure program effectiveness and student success. It also highlights how roles differ depending on whether a district builds its program internally or partners with a provider.
Purpose: These example goals provide insight into how a district can set measurable, meaningful goals aligned with its overall district strategic plan. Each key area for district-wide goal setting in high-impact tutoring programs—academic goals, implementation goals, and stakeholder experience goals—is illustrated with an example.
Purpose: The following chart below summarizes recommended metrics for understanding the implementation and impact of high-impact tutoring, with a focus on supporting equitable outcomes.
High-quality instruction can not occur without High-Quality Instructional Materials. High-quality instructional materials are defined by their focus on rigorous, grade-level skills that creates explicit connection between various standards. Strong high-quality instructional materials in tutoring can create a more consistent student learning experience that relies less on the individual experience of the tutor. Section 5.3 contains content about HQIM selection, implementation, and HQIM monitoring and adjustment.
Over the past several years, the field of high-impact tutoring has grown tremendously, with districts, states, and tutoring providers working together to expand access to evidence-based programs that drive student learning. Research consistently demonstrates that high-impact tutoring is one of the most effective interventions for accelerating academic achievement, and its successful implementation has become a cornerstone of student support nationwide.
Continuous improvement is vital for school programs to become indispensable elements that stakeholders can rely on for long-term student success. There are many ways to customize high-impact tutoring to your context and school while maintaining the pillar characteristics that create student impact. Regular data review and actionable decisions grounded in the early vision and goals of the program will ensure your tutoring program becomes a valued, integrated part of the education system, rather than a fleeting, temporary initiative.
All students can benefit from relationship-based, individualized instruction, but typically due to resource constraints, student participation in the program must be more targeted. High-impact tutoring can be a powerful solution for students in Tier II or Tier III instruction, and even to meet legal requirements for some students. Take sufficient time and care to prioritize the student population that will receive high-impact tutoring services.