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Call for Submissions: New Profit to Make $4.8M Investment in 24 Organizations Focused on Tutoring, Whole Child Supports, and Postsecondary Advising

We are excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for our Equitable Education Recovery Initiative. This initiative will provide each of 24 organizations a $200K unrestricted Catalyze Investment grant along with New Profit cohort-based capacity-building support and participation in a peer learning community—all over the course of three years. We are looking for community-based organizations providing ELA/math tutoring, whole child supports, and/or postsecondary advising to K-12 students in one or more of the following geographies: Denver Metro, Memphis/Nashville, and/or any part of California’s Central Valley from Fresno to Sacramento, plus Oakland.

Tutor Matching Service

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Tutor Matching Service is the tutor management platform from Study Edge, a learning science company committed to improving the entire education continuum, from K-12 to college and beyond. For K-12 students specifically, one-on-one tutoring has been shown to have a significant impact on overall student performance.

Billions are flowing to Texas schools for pandemic recovery. Here’s how they’ll spend it

Nearly $2 billion in federal pandemic aid is landing in the bank accounts of Dallas-area schools to help students recover from the pandemic.

The money — which state leaders announced this spring would flow to Texas schools — has a few strings attached. Districts must spend it on addressing student needs.

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Building in Continuous Improvement

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Overview: Why are continuous improvement systems critical to sustainability?

All tutoring programs and especially new tutoring programs need improvement. Continuous improvement systems allow you to gather, act on and share the information needed to reach and exceed program goals and inform and build support from stakeholders.

Boosting Enrollment and Attendance

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Overview: How do you identify causes and solutions to poor enrollment or attendance?

This section offers solutions to common challenges concerning student enrollment and attendance. Use the recommendations proactively to establish systems early: enrollment and attendance are non-negotiable necessities for a tutoring program to succeed, and they do not happen automatically.

Conducting a District Landscape Analysis

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What is a District Landscape Analysis?

A Landscape Analysis outlines the strengths, resources, and needs of a particular school district. It provides a framework for designing a service and ensuring that it is embedded directly in the needs of the district.

Scheduling Sessions

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Overview: How can districts and schools work together to schedule tutoring into the school day?

Once you have identified the schools where tutoring will happen and selected the students who will receive it, you are ready to tackle the logistical challenge of scheduling when and where your program’s tutoring sessions will take place.

Selecting Students

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Overview: Why should you create guidance for which students receive tutoring?

All students can benefit from high-impact tutoring, but you will probably need to prioritize which students receive this tutoring, at least in the short-run. Once you have chosen a focus area (subject and grade level) and identified partner schools for your program, the next step is to select which students at each school will receive tutoring. The district should create overall guidelines for schools to make these decisions.

Identifying Schools

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Overview: Why should you be selective about your program’s schools?

Choosing schools whose communities are fully invested in your program’s success will help you optimize your model more quickly. Prioritizing the schools whose students need tutoring most will ensure that your program can make a meaningful impact at any scale.

What criteria should you consider when selecting your program’s schools?

Does this school need this program?

Section 4: Implement High-Impact Tutoring

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Implement High-Impact Tutoring

Overview: Why should you be selective about your program’s schools?
What criteria should you consider when selecting your program’s schools?

Selecting Students

Overview: Why should you create guidance for which students receive tutoring?
What criteria should you consider when selecting students?

Scheduling Sessions

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