Districts Highlight the Importance of Implementing and Sustaining High-Dosage Tutoring

In a recent webinar moderated by Liz Cohen, Policy Director at FutureEd, a panel of educators, researchers, and industry experts gathered to discuss building, implementing, and maintaining a high-dosage tutoring program in a post-ESSER world. The session provided valuable insights into the benefits, challenges, and future of tutoring programs in schools.

Dawning of Schools as Hubs of Tutoring Sourcing

In this discussion with Anthony Salcito, Chief Institution Business Officer with Varsity Tutors, Leilani learns about Varsity Tutors and their mission to help schools gain, without compromise, on their objectives by becoming a sourcing hub leveraging some 40,000+ tutors.

Creative Approaches for Closing the Gap for Tier 2 and Tier 3 Students

On this AC&E Podcast we are talking to Marvel Nolan of the InspireNOLA Charter Network about how they are supporting Tier 2 and Tier 3 students through Tutoring with Varsity Tutors. Listen in to hear how they are using both On Demand and High Dosage Tutoring to reach all students across their schools.

How Mobile Learning Labs Are Supporting Hard-to-Reach Students

School closures during the pandemic exacerbated challenges facing more than 1.3 million students who experience housing insecurity and rely on schools for meals, internet access, and social services. In this session, you'll hear from leaders from The School District of Osceola County in Florida and Baltimore County Public Schools in Maryland who launched districtwide initiatives using repurposed buses to deliver meals and serve as mobile hubs for internet access and remote learning.

Equitable Summer Learning Solutions

On this AC&E Podcast, we discuss creating astrong summer education that helps to guarantee equity for all. Listen to the National Summer Learning Association program director, Brodrick Clarke, and chief academic officer for Varsity Tutors for Schools, Brian Galvin, for a discussion about how to build, facilitate, and fund summer learning opportunities that students want to be a part of

Tutoring Done Right

More than half of public schools—56%—are using high-dosage tutoring as a key piece of their strategy for students’ learning recovery, according to national data. But staffing shortages, lackluster online options, and ensuring that tutoring reaches the students who need it most have been challenges for many school districts who want to deploy the strategy. In this webinar, Anthony Salcito from Varsity Tutors will highlight and discuss the evidence base for tutoring, best practices for doing it effectively, and different ways to provide it at scale in school communities.

Evidence-Based Funding for Under-Resourced Schools

On this Podcast, Larry Jacobs from The American Consortium for Equity in Education is joined by Granite City Public Schools' Superintendent Stephanie Cann to discuss how she is using new state funding to create learning and opportunity with individualized instruction through virtual tutoring.

The Real Work Ahead

Educators know the challenges. The real work ahead is addressing them without leaving any learner behind or over-stretching teacher and system capacity.

Explore how the right tutoring program can do even more than boost student outcomes and educator capacity, it can alleviate the administrative and reporting burden of starting and equally important, managing a tutoring program at scale.

4 Considerations for Tutoring in the Wake of NAEP

In this article in THE Journal, our chief of institutional business, Anthony Salcito discusses four considerations for tutoring for districts who are looking for solutions to address their NAEP scores and support student achievement.

No Time to Waste: Individualized Instruction Will Drive Change

The 2022 release of NAEP scores underscored what every educator, parent and student knows: we’re struggling. A simple return to pre-pandemic ‘normal’ isn’t enough to address exacerbated achievement gaps. Listen to this webinar with former district leaders, innovators, and advocates to take a focused look at how schools can best mobilize the tutoring infrastructure they’ve put in place in recent years, and build a sustainable model for personalized instruction and intervention moving forward. The path from struggling to getting back on track just may be shorter than we think.

The Changing Landscape of Tutoring

On this Podcast, our chief of institutional business, Anthony Salcito, joins Larry Jacobs from The American Consortium for Equity in Education to discuss how the tutoring landscape has changed in K-12 schools.

Measuring Tutors’ Success: High Impact or Bust?

In this webinar, experts in tutoring and measurement explore how to take a data-informed approach to deploying, evaluating, and refining a learning recovery strategy. You will learn about the current research on tutoring as schools scale learning recovery programs nationwide, how to build research and evaluation into a district’s tutoring program, and how to effectively deploy online tutoring programs and leverage new technology to make a bigger impact.

Operational Efficiency of Virtual Tutoring Programs

In your drive to close equity and achievement gaps, a comprehensive tutoring program can deliver measurable results. But to achieve your objectives that program needs to align your daily workflows, classroom instruction and operations along with consistently providing high quality personalized learning.

Explore how a virtual tutoring program can scale across your school or district as a part of the classroom experience to expand and enrich educator capacity and instructional efficacy

Where Tutoring Works: A New Look at Use Cases and Opportunities

Learn how to tackle a wide-range of instructional needs through virtual tutoring. Now considered a contributing component to the instructional mix, tutoring offers a proven, affordable, and effective strategy to meet every student’s needs during and beyond the school day and expand educators’ instructional capacity.

Tutoring Proof Points and Pitfalls

In this article in the October issue of District Administration magazine, our chief of institutional business, Anthony Salcito discusses four proof points and pitfalls some districts face when implementing a virtual tutoring program. See page 38 to learn more.

The Transformation From Human to Digital to Human + Digital Instruction

What happens when we extend the landscape of human connection in the classroom? The emergence of digital tools revolutionized education and allowed for greater personalization. Now, we can take that a step further and provide a human connection across all the learning modalities inside and outside of the classroom. Nerdy's Chief of Institutional Business, Anthony Salcito discusses the future transformation of education that combines the greatest technology tools with the most imperative element, human connection.

The Truth About SEL

Dr. Aaliyah Samuel, President and CEO, Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) shared what exactly SEL is, why the research shows it to be such a transformative tool for student outcomes​, and what it takes for schools to get started with effective implementation.

Equitable and Effective Learning Acceleration

Dr. Susanna Loeb, Director of the Annenberg Institute and Executive Director of the National Student Support Accelerator at Brown University, shared the characteristics and examples of effective tutoring and how you can support the adoption of this proven, research-based approach.

How Varsity Tutors Helps Students Succeed

We've helped 91% of student achieve substantial learning gains, turning learning gaps into subject mastery.

Varsity Tutors For School Summary

A brief overview of how Varsity Tutors for Schools can help every student in your disctrict.

The Impact of Tutoring

An anaysis of how recent events have contributed to learning loss and how evidence-based tutoring can mitigate it.