Keep The Money Close To Students
Some communities are requiring districts to track spending decisions and prioritize accelerated learning for their students through high-dosage tutoring.
January 25, 2022
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High-Dosage Tutoring: The Future Of Academic Support
Now is the time for an academic support model that ensures equitable access to a new idea, one that is driven by data evaluation and is integrated with a district’s instructional strategy, with the benefits compounding the acceleration of learning over time.
January 19, 2022
We Work For Teachers Because We Are Teachers
Our own Brian Miller and Kanecia Hodo share their stories as instructors during the pandemic, and what they see as the deciding factors that caused their career shift, from being in front of the kids to behind the scenes at Littera.
January 11, 2022
It Is Never Too Late For a Champion
Giving up on students is unacceptable. It is never too late in the year or in their lives to give them the support they’ve always deserved. Dr. Janet Wilson shares her personal experience with trauma and an educator who never gave up on her.
December 21, 2021
Littera Receives Gates Foundation Grant to Help School Districts Promote Equity
The 14-month grant will provide data and technological innovations that close gaps in mathematics achievement among students set back by the COVID-19 pandemic who are Black, Latino, and/or experiencing poverty.
December 14, 2021
A Way Out: High-Dosage Tutoring for Every Student
Like Plato's vision for true knowledge, districts can create a new reality - one beyond the trappings of the cave of disruption that has plagued K-12 education for the last two years.
December 7, 2021
The Second-Grader Problem
For second-graders, 2021 marks their first face-to-face experience in a classroom. Bonding with their teachers and classmates as well as time and attention is required for this group of young learners during such a critical, transitional time.
November 29, 2021
Teachers - At The Epicenter Of Recovery
First Marking Period Outcomes Report - Teachers are most crucial to the future of learning and are faced with an unprecedented instructional environment and many see this as a battleground for innovative solutions.
November 16, 2021
The Brown M&M Clause For Education
Designing efficient district support systems requires evaluating options with a risk-management lens, and a hidden checklist that you can rely on with each new opportunity ensures that your operational needs are being met.
November 9, 2021
New Virginia Funding Supports Tutoring
The Virginia DOE through Onward and Upward VA is inviting schools around the state to apply for over $100 million in student-focused grants to support programs to help students catch up and achieve their academic goals.
November 1, 2021
Principal Leadership: Traversing New Contexts, New Roles, and Innovative Strategies
Principals are in the pinch position of being the key intermediary in strategizing what normal feels like amid chaos - with the opportunity to transform their district's future by using available funding to accelerate learning.
October 26, 2021
Building Your Vision Despite HB 4545
TEXAS: HB 4545 and its requirements, though perhaps initially overwhelming, provide districts with a unique opportunity to create a new model of education that includes individualized instruction for all.
October 20, 2021
Compensatory Education: An Opportunity For Innovation
Compensatory education, specifically high-dosage tutoring, provides a remedy for the disproportionate effect the COVID-19 pandemic has had on special education and services.
October 12, 2021
Utilizing Benchmark Assessment Data To Design Personalized Interventions
Interventions provide a pathway to telling every student's story. Their journey is transformative; the support they need is prescriptive.
October 6, 2021
US DOE Recommendations For High-Impact Tutoring
In the recently published report "Strategies for Using American Rescue Plan Funding to Address the Impact of Lost Instructional Time," staff from the US DOE outlines how implementing evidence-based tutoring practices is a key approach to accelerating learning.
September 29, 2021
Data-Informed Practices Lead to Real Equity Accountability
The pandemic has disrupted student progress data collection for many districts. To get to grade level and bridge this gap, no time should be wasted in implementing the monitoring and reporting required for equitable learning.
September 14, 2021
Providing Scale, Fit, and Power in Tutoring Design
A thoughtfully and effectively designed, delivered, and monitored tutoring initiative can focus better on the individualized needs of students if it is an extension of the core academic program.
August 25, 2021
Webinar Review - Accelerating Literacy Through High-Dosage Tutoring
Highlights from our discussion with Lucy Calkins and Colleen Cruz of the Teachers College Reading & Writing Project at Columbia University.
August 23, 2021
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Announcing Teachers College Reading and Writing Project + Littera Education Partnership
Littera is excited to announce that we have partnered with Teachers College Reading and Writing Project, a renowned provider of curriculum and professional development in literacy to create an all-inclusive tutoring program for K-12 districts and schools of all sizes.
August 10, 2021
HB 4545 Requirements Can Feel Overwhelming
Addressing the new mandated requirements of HB 4545 in Texas is proving to be a challenge for many. We’re working with districts to meet those needs and align a high-dosage tutoring program with TEKS.
August 4, 2021
Littera Accelerates Development And Adds Key Executive After Closing Series A
Our team is thrilled with what we have accomplished to date, and we are now focused on accelerating the deployment of our platform to support students, teachers, districts, and other student-serving organizations across the country!
August 3, 2021
Littera Expands Leadership Team With Key Hire
Former Chief of Teaching, Learning and Schools at Montgomery County Public Schools Dr. Janet Wilson joins Littera Education as Senior Vice President, District Solutions
July 13, 2021
Littera Education Presenting At ISTE 2021 Conference
The annual ISTE conference has always been an important opportunity for K-12 leaders to learn about new innovations in technology. More importantly, attendees of the ISTE Conference always discover new approaches that can make teaching and learning more effective for students everywhere.
June 22, 2021
Comprehensive District Tutoring Programs - The Time Is Now!
This self-described thought experiment lays out a forward-thinking plan to bring effective high-dosage tutoring to K-12 districts across the United States.
May 21, 2021
Research Proves Tutoring Is Effective
The list of life skills that can be learned with tutoring extend beyond a child’s academic success and add important life skills and confidence that all parents and teachers want to see for students.
May 4, 2021
Why Early Literacy and Numeracy are Prime for District Managed Tutoring
Tutoring has become a huge focus of early childhood education because we know that early literacy skills set the stage for the rest of a learner’s school career, and indeed for significant life outcomes.
April 20, 2021
How Tutoring Can Address Unfinished Learning In K-12 Schools
District tutor programs are one of the best tools available to K-12 schools and districts who want to address unfinished learning opportunities.
April 8, 2021