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10/18/2024. Organization
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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.
10/17/2024. Organization
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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.
10/17/2024. Organization
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Our program uses Huntington Learning Center academic programs, tailored for each student, to help students in grades 3-8 increase either their reading fluency and comprehension or their basic math skills. Teachers are assigned up to 4 students, who they then work daily as part of the master schedule at our partner schools. We have trained professionals come in from outside the school to achieve the teacher/student ratio required.
10/17/2024. Organization
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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.
10/10/2024. Article
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.
10/07/2024. Article
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.
10/07/2024. Article
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.
10/01/2024. Research Study
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.
09/24/2024. Article
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.
09/17/2024. Article
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.
09/17/2024. Organization
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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.
09/17/2024. Organization
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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.
09/17/2024. Organization
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.
09/17/2024. Organization
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.
09/17/2024. Organization
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
09/10/2024. Article
09/05/2024. Article
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.
08/28/2024. Article
“This is most likely to happen if parents both want this and believe that they can get this – and deserve to get this – at school,” says Susanna Loeb, a professor of education at Stanford University in California.
Amid the flurry of activity in recent years, researchers and policy advocates are increasingly pointing to a specific kind of tutoring as the most effective. Known as “high-impact” or “high-dosage,” it generally refers to tutoring that happens at least three times a week for 30-minute sessions with groups of four or fewer students. And if it occurs during the regular school day? Even better.
08/26/2024. Article
Research reveals the most effective ways to help young struggling readers through tutoring.
Tutoring has gained popularity as a strategy to improve the academic achievement of struggling students. Intensive, relationship-based tutoring is a highly effective academic support for many students, particularly in the early elementary years when school schedules and classroom routines are flexible (Groom-Thomas et al., 2023). For schools considering how to begin tutoring or where to prioritize resources, early literacy tutoring — which is both effective and feasible — is a good place to start.
08/25/2024. Organization
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ConneXions Tutoring started in March 2020 to alleviate the stresses of COVID-19. We have supported over 400 students and provided 2600+ hours of service.
08/25/2024. Organization
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We offer Live Online tutoring services as well as In-person: students can choose between In-Home tutoring or at a preferred Public space such as a Library or Coffee Shop for In-Person Services. We tutor All Subjects at all Grade Levels, Kindergarten through University with many knowledgeable and experienced tutors on staff.
08/25/2024. Organization
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Results Learning specializes in providing Special Education compensatory services & staffing, and customized tutoring programs to K-12 schools and school districts across the country.
08/25/2024. Organization
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Since 2009, BuffTutor has been trusted by students and parents to connect with exceptional and effective tutors. Our network of tutors consists of graduate and undergraduate students, as well as retired teachers & professors. We provide both in-person and online tutoring for all subjects, though we primarily focus on STEM tutoring for college & high school level students.
08/25/2024. Organization
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The 916 Ink Read On! program delivers literacy tutoring for 1st-5th grade striving readers to help them reach grade-level reading goals.
08/25/2024. Organization
Thinkster Math's high-impact tutoring solution for schools leverages advanced AI technology and expert human tutoring to deliver personalized, effective, and engaging math instruction. By focusing on deep conceptual understanding and continuous assessment, Thinkster ensures that students not only improve their math skills but also build confidence and reduce frustration. This comprehensive approach makes Thinkster an ideal partner for schools looking to enhance their math education programs.
08/22/2024. Article
The Bay Area Tutoring Association (BATA) is proud to host Silicon Valley High Dosage Tutoring Summit, a groundbreaking event designed to elevate the conversation on this critical academic intervention.
BATA is scheduled to host the Silicon Valley High Dosage Tutoring Summit on Friday October 11, 2024, at the Santa Clara County Office of Education. The summit will bring together various stakeholders including educators, policymakers, researchers, parent advocates, and funding organizations. Click here to register
08/21/2024. Article
The high-impact tutoring provider wins large district and state partnerships to address the literacy and numeracy crisis among K-8 students
Building on its success within New York City Public Schools, the largest school district in the country, Braintrust Tutors is now well-positioned to extend support to tens of thousands of high-risk students in the Los Angeles Unified School District, Boston Public Schools, Detroit Public Schools Community District, and across the state of Tennessee.
08/19/2024. General
High-impact tutoring is one of the most promising approaches for increasing student engagement and learning. Paraprofessionals already in schools can be excellent tutors during the school day if well supported with instructional materials and dedicated time for tutoring. This approach effectively addresses student academic gaps early, particularly in lower elementary classrooms.