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It’s easy to focus on what’s not working in education–that’s the norm. But as we head into this new school year, it’s important not to lose sight of everything that is on track, and to reflect on the incredible progress that’s been made in the last two years.
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With everyone from the schoolhouse to the White House pointing to tutoring as the solution to learning loss, it’s worth asking not only when and why “high-dosage tutoring” became so popular, but also what exactly people mean when they say it.
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The Brookings Institution found that average math test scores in grades 3-8 fell at roughly double the rate of reading scores between 2019 and 2021.
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Dr. Janet Wilson speaks with districts about what they're considering as they implement tutoring as an intervention.
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Tutoring often fits best as a district-managed intervention that is available to all students throughout the school day, and embedded alongside primary instruction.
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Math anxiety is real, but where does it come from, and how can you help students overcome it?
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Chat-based tutoring is not an appropriate intervention for students who don’t yet know how to read fluently. With an ever-growing number of schools turning to tutoring to accelerate learning, understanding the differences between popular models is essential.
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Research on students in danger of retention provides us key insights on how best to accelerate learning for kids who’ve fallen behind.
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Use federal funding and grants to support high-dosage tutoring in K-12 schools.
New research suggests a shift toward the “Active View of Reading” to understand students' reading abilities, to account for complexity, and to provide targeted support.
High-dosage math tutoring research and implementation guides can be lengthy and detailed. Use this best practices infographic as a first step in ensuring your program accelerates achievement for all.
Staffing shortages in education were here before the pandemic, but are now more urgent than ever.
This year, districts are leveraging the flexibility of high-dosage tutoring during the summer break to ensure their students are on track.
Districts can drive equity and overcome learning disruption by advancing the whole child approach to education.
The research is clear, tutoring works. The difficult part for many districts is deciding what works best for their needs.
High-dosage tutoring can be both a short-term solution for overcoming historically inadequate reading scores and a long-term transformative tool for ensuring strong foundational skills.
Parents and teachers are rallying around tutoring as a unifying force for creating a better school environment.
Some communities are requiring districts to track spending decisions and prioritize accelerated learning for their students through high-dosage tutoring.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Compensatory education, specifically high-dosage tutoring, provides a remedy for the disproportionate effect the COVID-19 pandemic has had on special education and services.
Interventions provide a pathway to telling every student's story. Their journey is transformative; the support they need is prescriptive.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
District tutor programs are one of the best tools available to K-12 schools and districts who want to address unfinished learning opportunities.