Contracting relationships between public school districts and vendors are a common feature of education provision in the United States. Contracted services in schools can range from broad, essential functions such as school meals, bussing, and janitorial services to more specialized services such as the analysis of student data, curriculum mapping, and professional development for staff members. The strength of these contracting relationships depends on vendors providing consistent services and on payment between vendors and districts. Providers are paid with public funds, and communities may expect clear oversight of contracts and transparency about their effects on valued outcomes. Transparency also can help districts make decisions about whether or not to continue contracts with providers.
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Join this invitation-only gathering of researchers, district, state, and higher education leaders, tutoring providers, and funders to:
- Learn about implications of recent research findings and innovative and sustainable practices in tutoring;
- Explore successful state and district strategies for scaling and sustainability; and
- Make connections with education leaders in the field.
The Joseph Learning Lab is a 501c3 nonprofit founded in 2015. We have hybrid programs. After school tutoring for K-12, and summer enrichment sessions have been successful in getting underserved children caught up, post pandemic.
Team Tutor is an educational tutoring firm that provides personalized tutoring, test prep and study skills programs to students in grades K-12 through an online and in-person tutoring model. Over the past 20 years we have collaborated with schools to provide tutoring services for students through our many school programs.
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Live, Interactive Virtual Tutoring: BrightTreks offers live, real-time tutoring sessions with highly qualified educators. Our virtual environment allows for flexible scheduling while providing students with immediate feedback and support from their tutor. This dynamic approach ensures that students are actively engaged in every session, enabling deep learning and language acquisition.
At a White House event today, Domestic Policy Advisor Neera Tanden, in coordination with the U.S. Department of Education (Department), AmeriCorps, and the Everyone Graduates Center at the Johns Hopkins University, will announce that the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS) has exceeded President Biden’s call to recruit an additional 250,000 adults into high-impact student roles by summer 2025 to support academic success for all students. These roles range from tutors, mentors, student success coaches, postsecondary transition coaches, and wraparound/integrated student support coordinators. As of the end of the 2023-2024 school year, an additional 320,000 adults have stepped into these roles in schools, exceeding the President’s goal and doing so a year early.
Students whose tutors used Tutor CoPilot were 4 percentage points more likely to progress through math tutoring session assessments successfully compared to students whose tutors did not have AI assistance, the study found.
The approach particularly benefited lower-rated and less-experienced tutors, researchers said. Students of lower-rated tutors who used the AI assistance increased their math proficiency up to 9 percentage points on average compared to students learning from lower-rated tutors without AI assistance.
The study included 900 tutors and 1,800 elementary and secondary school students from a large school district in the South. Stanford partnered with tutoring company FEV Tutor to pilot the tool’s implementation.
Here’s how it works: A tutor presents a subtraction problem to a student. If the student answers incorrectly, the tutor can activate Tutor CoPilot, which will recommend that the tutor ask the student to identify the numbers in the problem or suggest the student draw the items that need to be subtracted.
An AI-powered digital tutoring assistant designed by Stanford University researchers shows modest promise at improving students’ short-term performance in math, suggesting that the best use of artificial intelligence in virtual tutoring for now might be in supporting, not supplanting, human instructors.
The open-source tool, which researchers say other educators can recreate and integrate into their tutoring systems, made the human tutors slightly more effective. And the weakest tutors became nearly as effective as their more highly-rated peers, according to a study released Monday.
Generative AI, particularly Language Models (LMs), has the potential to transform real-world domains with societal impact, particularly where access to experts is limited. For example, in education, training novice educators with expert guidance is important for effectiveness but expensive, creating significant barriers to improving education quality at scale. This challenge disproportionately hurts students from under-served communities, who stand to gain the most from high-quality education and are most likely to be taught by inexperienced educators. We introduce Tutor CoPilot, a novel Human-AI approach that leverages a model of expert thinking to provide expert-like guidance to tutors as they tutor. This study presents the first randomized controlled trial of a Human-AI system in live tutoring, involving 900 tutors and 1,800 K-12 students from historically under-served communities.
Tutored by Teachers ("TbT"), a leading provider of personalized virtual instruction, has been awarded the prestigious Tutoring Program Design Badge from the National Student Support Accelerator ("NSSA"). This recognition highlights TbT's commitment to maintaining rigorous standards in tutor selection, program efficacy, and school partnerships. It also supports the company's ongoing expansion as TbT introduces new instructional supports designed to meet the evolving needs of diverse student populations.
You can’t argue with data. Research shows that high-dosage tutoring is one of the most effective ways to help students make academic progress. Yet few students actually receive it. A recent study from Stanford University demonstrated the many positive effects of tutoring, including increased reading and math scores, attendance and a feeling of belonging. Teach For America’s (TFA) tutoring program, the Ignite Fellowship, finds and develops tutors who connect virtually with students during the school day. Fellows, who are paid for their work, are supported by a school-based veteran educator to customize instruction. Seventy-one percent of the 3,500 students across the country being tutored by Ignite fellows meet their semester-long reading and math goals.
/*-->*/ /*-->*/ SpecialEdResource offers specialized one-on-one tutoring services designed to help children with special needs excel academically. With a team of experienced tutors who understand the unique learning styles of children with disabilities, the platform tailors each tutoring session to meet the individual needs of the student.
We offer personalized tutoring for individuals and small groups of up to four students. Our interactive lessons are designed to meet specific Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills standards and Common Core Standards, following a structured curriculum. All our instructors are experienced and certified educators. Learners meet with their instructors up to 3 times a week, for 30 minutes each session.
We are a private tutoring agency and an educational brand in New York City. Our goal is to approach learning in a non-traditional, fun and effective way for each of our students! As an up and coming leader in early childhood education, we strongly believe in personalized learning, as we recognize that every child has a unique learning style. We assist students in attaining their personal academic goals, molding them to become independent learners and helping them to think differently and diversely in how they approach problems, both academically and in life.
Smart Brain Tutorial and Learning Center is dedicated to empowering students of all ages by offering personalized, high-quality tutoring and educational support. Our mission is to foster academic excellence, critical thinking, and lifelong learning, helping students become confident and capable learners ready to excel in their academic journeys.
Tutoring Available In:
* MATH: basic math through geometry and algebra 2 (at any age)
* LANGUAGE: all levels / ages: grammar, reading, writing, spelling, vocabulary, editing
* TEST PREP: - college admissions / placement: SAT, ACT, CLEP, PERT, CPT, ACCUPLACER, TABE, etc.
- private school entrance: ISEE, SSAT, COOP, etc.
- nursing school entrance: TEAS, PAX, HESI - graduate school admissions: GRE, GMAT, and LSAT
- military entrance: ASVAB
- high school equivalency: GED
Since 2022, public schools in the District of Columbia have been working to mitigate Covid learning disruptions by establishing and ramping up high-impact tutoring (HIT) efforts. Data on the outcome of these efforts are beginning to emerge, and a new report from the National Student Support Accelerator (NSSA) shows some minimally encouraging signs.
NSSA is an offshoot of the Stanford Accelerator for Learning and Systems Change for Advancing Learning and Equity, an initiative focused on researching how tutoring can best benefit students. Its new report looks at the first full year of HIT implementation in D.C. schools during 2022–23. Tutoring efforts that year concentrated on math and English language arts (ELA) for students in all grades and was focused on schools—both district and charter—with the greatest concentrations of students identified as at risk. It’s interesting to note that “at risk” doesn’t generally mean academic risk for schools in the district, but rather centers primarily on student socioeconomic status and homelessness, in the context of this wholly-academic intervention. Pre-existing academic need appears not to have been a driving force in choosing where tutors were placed, although some data suggest that academic performance may have influenced teachers’ decisions on which students to refer for tutoring.