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High-Impact tutoring — i.e., tutoring delivered three or more times a week by consistent, trained tutors using quality materials and data to inform instruction — is one of the most effective academic interventions, providing an average of more than four months of additional learning in elementary literacy and almost 10 months in high school math, according to research from the Annenberg Institute at Brown University (learn more here). The National Student Support Accelerator offers open-source Accelerator tools and resources to help ensure more equitable access to quality tutoring. These research-backed tools and supports are easy to use and downloadable, and are designed to make structuring, implementing and scaling high-quality, high-impact tutoring programs as straightforward as possible.

This video is the second of a two-part series that will discuss the expectations, methods, and relationships that come with training your tutors. This 2-part series includes:  Tutor Training, Part 1: Expectations, Methods and Relationship Building, and Tutor Training, Part 2: Effective Facilitation and Relationship Building.

This video is the first of a two-part series that will discuss the expectations, methods, and relationships that come with training your tutors. This 2-part series includes:  Tutor Training, Part 1: Expectations, Methods and Relationship Building, and Tutor Training, Part 2: Effective Facilitation and Relationship Building.

The National Student Support Accelerator: Launched a new website that includes a summary of current tutoring research, a toolkit to make it easy to launch a new tutoring program or improve an existing tutoring program, and a tutoring program database, along with updated information on the Accelerator’s pilot sites and state-level policy recommendations.

The National Student Support Accelerator is excited to share this series of webinars, designed to assist practitioners start or improve high-impact tutoring programs. These short, instructional videos supplement the Tool Kit and simplify these processes. Each webinar also includes the relevant transcript, slide deck, and links to slide-specific tools. Additional webinars will be released soon, covering more key program design, implementation, training, and instructional topics.

In this National Student Support Accelerator webinar, we’ll be discussing the importance of practicing and maintaining cultural awareness in tutoring. 

The “So, You Want to Start a Tutoring Organization” webinar series is meant to help demystify the process of starting a tutoring organization. This 3-part series includes:  Decision Making, Recruitment and Selection, and Safety, Expectations, Accessibility, and Evaluation.

The “So, You Want to Start a Tutoring Organization” webinar series is meant to help demystify the process of starting a tutoring organization. This 3-part series includes:  Decision Making, Recruitment and Selection, and Safety, Expectations, Accessibility, and Evaluation.

The “So, You Want to Start a Tutoring Organization” webinar series is meant to help demystify the process of starting a tutoring organization. This 3-part series includes:  Decision Making, Recruitment and Selection, and Safety, Expectations, Accessibility, and Evaluation.

HeyTutor's program vets, screens, and trains tutors directly from a district's community to serve students live, and in-person on their campus. Our inclusive Learning Gap Curriculum embraces extensive academic standards to provide students with a solid foundation across subjects. It often involves diagnostic assessments to identify learning gaps, followed by resources and activities aimed at closing those gaps and ensuring that all students can achieve the expected learning outcomes.

Students in K-12 are paired with high school students who excel in math and English; they meet on a fixed weekly basis, with students meeting with the same tutor each time, ensuring that the student and tutor are able to build meaningful, high-impact relationships with one another.

A new policy brief examines the research evidence behind tutoring and what design principles for tutoring have shown to be important for boosting student achievement. The report is titled Accelerating Student Learning with High-Dosage Tutoring. It’s coauthored by Dr. Carly Robinson, Dr. Matthew Kraft and Dr. Susanna Loeb of the Annenberg Institute at Brown University, as well as Dr. Beth Schueler of the School of Education and Human Development at the University of Virginia.

For 25+ years and 28+ million tutoring sessions, Tutor.com has provided best-in-class tutoring. Our High-Dosage Tutoring, purpose-built by a team of educators in alignment with research best practices, is available in Math and English Language Arts for grades 3 through 8 plus Algebra I. What sets our High-Dosage Tutoring programs apart are design principles that drive student outcomes, including:

Higher Achievement offers small-group academic mentoring in math and humanities/ELA for middle grade students. It has been the subject of two randomized controlled trial studies by MDRC, both of which demonstrated positive academic effects.

The Education Lab conducted a study that demonstrates individualized, intensive (or “high-dosage”) tutoring can double or triple the amount of math high school students learn each year, increase student grades, and reduce math and non-math course failures. The findings, which are the result of an intervention developed by the non-profit organization Saga Education, come as school districts across America grapple with the pandemic’s academic fallout, including significant learning loss among students and the acceleration of pre-existing educational disparities.

“The pandemic closed a lot of schools and in the process created even greater inequalities in the access students have to good educational opportunities,” said Susanna Loeb, a professor of education at Brown who directs the Annenberg Institute. “Many students weren’t able to connect, both metaphorically — as in, they found virtual learning very difficult — and literally — as in, they didn’t have internet access or the right technology. We came in thinking: ‘What is out there that could really accelerate the learning of students in need so that they don’t lose months or years of progress?’”

Yup is a math teacher multiplier. We provide secure access to expert math tutors 24/7, powering High-Dosage Tutoring in and out of the classroom. Our "Math Learning Support System" gives teachers extra capacity, actionable data, and is like having a teaching assistant in every classroom.