While there is rarely widespread agreement on what’s best for student success, policy makers, educators, and families have all shared that high-impact tutoring is a critical tool that produces large learning gains, particularly for students who have fallen behind. According to NEA Today, “high-impact tutoring is 20 times more effective than standard tutoring models for math instruction and 15 times more effective for reading. Studies demonstrate that the practice increases students’ learning by an additional three to 15 months across grade levels.”

Students in Montgomery County deserve the opportunity to benefit from these best practices. With this in mind, Learn to Earn Dayton (L2ED) is pleased to announce its recent selection in a High Impact Tutoring (HIT) Design Sprint hosted by Results for America (RFA), the National Student Support Accelerator, the Annenberg Institute, and EdResearch for Action. L2ED submitted the application on behalf of a regional Montgomery County team; partners include the Montgomery County Education Service Center, the Fitz Center for Leadership in Community’s Educational Equity Programs, Dayton Public Schools, and Omega Community Development Corporation. The Montgomery County team was 1 of 14 teams selected from across the nation to participate in the opportunity.
Stacy Schweikhart, CEO of L2ED shared, “Montgomery County students deserve every opportunity to succeed. We’re thrilled to work with this regional team of innovative leaders to develop an action plan that will help interested districts scale up their high-impact tutoring programs.”
Throughout the seven-week design sprint currently underway, the team is working collaboratively to create an action plan and high-impact tutoring model that blends the best practices from evidence-based HIT programs and the local context, capacity, and need within Montgomery County. Together, they are exploring design features, funding sources, evaluation methods, and best practices. At the end of the design sprint, the team will have an action plan that includes: a ready-to-implement high-impact tutoring model that reflects the local need, an evidence-based budget for district/partner implementation, with potential funding sources identified, a data-collection and evaluation plan, to define and prioritize evidence for continuous quality improvement, and a concrete timeline with next steps for operationalization.
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