The First 30 Days of Tutoring: What to Watch For and Adjust to Maximize Impact in Your District
The first few weeks of a tutoring program can tell you a lot about program implementation, long before outcome data is available. In the first 30 days you can see attendance patterns emerge. Students miss sessions or are “just 5 minutes late.” each day. The reality of the school schedule creates unexpected barriers and then planned dosage doesn’t match actual dosage. And sometimes seemingly small implementation issues begin to add up.
Whether tutoring is vendor-led, district-run, or a combination of both, the first 30 days are an important opportunity to understand what students are actually receiving and make adjustments while there’s still time to improve the experience and outcomes
Pearl Education and OpenLiteracy explore what tutoring leaders can learn during the first 30 days of implementation, and how early data can help teams identify issues and adjust before small problems become bigger ones.
Rather than waiting for end-of-program outcomes to understand what happened, we’ll look at the early signals districts can use to understand whether tutoring is being delivered as intended and where changes may be needed to maximize the impact of tutoring in your district.
IN THIS WEBINAR, YOU’LL LEARN:
- What to look for in the first 30 days to maximize the impact of tutoring in your district
- What attendance and dosage patterns can reveal before outcome data is available
- How scheduling, time of day, and other operational decisions can affect participation
- How to identify when tutoring delivery isn’t matching the original plan
- What questions districts should be asking in order to understand the quality of tutoring implementation
- What key metrics they need to esee from their tutoring data, whether programs are vendor-led, district-run, or both
- How small, data-informed adjustments can strengthen implementation throughout the year
The First 30 Days of Tutoring: What to Watch For and Adjust to Maximize Impact in Your District
Sarah Scott Frank
Founder & CEO, OpenLiteracy
