While high-impact tutoring is highly effective and well-suited for academic recovery, it is most effective if it is integrated into district priorities and existing efforts rather than an optional add-on.
Identify the stakeholders who influence decision-making now and in the future. Common decision-makers and influencers include:
If your district would benefit from high-impact tutoring, you will need a solid rationale to garner support for adopting this potentially highly effective program. This section provides guidance for how to engage stakeholders, identify where tutoring might benefit your district’s students the most, consider bargaining and advocacy challenges, and identify funding. Once you have a solid rationale supported by key stakeholders, you will be ready to move forward with building support for your high-impact tutoring program in your district.
High-impact tutoring is the most effective academic intervention for accelerating student learning researched to date and has the potential to provide additional relationship-based support to students for overall well-being, to attract additional people to the field of education, and to make educator’s work more productive.
High-Impact Tutoring is Effective
High-impact tutoring benefits students while supporting educators:
Greetings –
On behalf of the National Education Association and the National Student Support Accelerator, two organizations dedicated to student learning and success, thank you for your interest in high-impact tutoring as an academic intervention for student support and learning recovery. We welcome you to this Educator Union Leaders Guide focused on high-impact tutoring advocacy!
On behalf of the National Education Association and the National Student Support Accelerator, two organizations dedicated to student learning and success, thank you for your interest in high-impact tutoring as an academic intervention for student support and learning recovery. We welcome you to this Educator Union Leaders' Guide focused on high-impact tutoring advocacy!
Why high-impact tutoring? Because so many students have faced exacerbated inequities through and beyond the COVID-19 pandemic; we are called to use every tool in our toolbox that is proven to work in order to ensure that resources and supports are directed to the students who need them the most. Since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the federal government has allocated over $200 billion in new dollars for K-12 education. This funding represents a massive opportunity for our nation’s schools to adopt effective academic interventions for the long-term, but it’s up to us to ensure that it's moving to meet the highest needs of our students.