Expand the pool of potential tutors rather than expanding group sizes when scaling tutoring to all students¶

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Description¶

Responding to Louisiana's Accelerate guidance, the brief recommends that states seeking to tutor all students not enlarge groups beyond the research-based cap. It advises: "states looking to adopt high-impact tutoring should instead expand the pool of potential tutors using paraprofessionals or recent college graduates and if necessary more narrowly target their program to students that data indicate were most academically impacted by the pandemic."

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A supply of trained paraprofessionals or recent college graduates available as tutors

Constraints¶

• If the expanded tutor pool is insufficient, programs should more narrowly target students most academically impacted by the pandemic

Target Learners¶

• students most academically impacted by the pandemic

Target Learning Goals¶

• personalized instruction within research-based group sizes

Related Strategies¶

• State policy models for scaling high-impact tutoring: Colorado's non-competitive grant program and Louisiana's long-term Accelerate initiative
• Use evaluation evidence on implementation quality, attendance, and relationships to guide tutoring program selection and improvement
• Target tutoring equity by prioritizing underserved students and using culturally reflective curriculum and formative data

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• State Guidance for High Impact Tutoring. (2021). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED614259