Southeast Community Foundation is a non-profit organization providing academic tutoring in Los Angeles County. They utilize a “needs-driven” tutoring model targeting students who have fallen behind and need individualized support. Tutoring will occur during the typical school day utilizing college students as the primary tutor base. They will provide tutoring services to 300 students in grades 1-8 in English language arts and mathematics. Participating students will receive four tutoring sessions per week, lasting 30 minutes to one hour, for at least 12 weeks.

Southern Education Foundation (SEF) will support up to eight school districts in developing and fielding outcomes based bid documents and contracts, making a substantial portion of payment to tutoring vendors conditional on evidence of student growth. SEF’s model for outcomes-based contracts (OBC) will provide critical guidance for the field that may be especially useful when school systems reach the end of their COVID-19 stimulus funding. SEF will build on its first year of OBC work, having supported four school districts in launching OBC for math tutoring  programs in the 2021-22 school year. In the coming year, SEF will partner with districts to create model OBC bid documents and contracts and will assist the districts in tracking student progress toward the project’s goals. The goals of this project include improved student achievement, a strong vendor response, ensuring that contracts are viable between partners, and establishing a competitive landscape for improving student outcomes.

Step Up Tutoring is a California-based non-profit organization that drives student success in under-resourced communities by providing free virtual relationship-based tutoring to elementary school students. Step Up recruits, trains, and supports mission-driven tutors from across the state, including through partnerships with over 25 colleges and universities to engage college students as tutors through Federal Work-Study and Californians for All College Corps. Founded in 2020 in partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, Step Up has served over 2,500 students to date. Our vision is that impactful and cost-effective relationship-based tutoring is accessible to every child in need.

Teach For America (TFA) will conduct an evaluation of its Ignite Fellowship to understand how the tutoring program impacts student outcomes and whether participation in the program influences tutors to become teachers. TFA’s Ignite Fellowship is a national tutoring corps, composed primarily of current college students, and is designed with a dual focus on academic acceleration and student well-being. It aims to recruit and hire exceptional fellows, strategically align with school partners, and support ongoing training of fellows working with students. Fellows provide virtual tutoring, during the school day, with a focus on early elementary reading and middle school math.

Teaching Lab’s mission is to transform teacher professional learning to ensure educational equity. Its focus is on scaling high-impact, curriculum-based professional learning and coaching, with the specific goal of improving outcomes for marginalized student populations. Teaching Lab serves over 10,000 teachers per year across the country.

Teachley Math is a K-5 Tier II math program that offers a coherent set of intervention lessons spanning operations, problem solving, and fractions standards delivered to small groups of students. With the support of the Call to Effective Action grant, Teachley will partner with Amber Charter School Network in New York City to provide targeted, high-impact math tutoring for third and fourth grade students during the 2024-25 school year. Teachley is honored to receive this grant and appreciates Accelerate's recognition and commitment to validating effective tutoring for young learners, as learning sciences research is integral to their programs.

A grant to the Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE), building on over $150 million already invested in tutoring programs impacting more than 225,000 students across 87 districts, will establish a comprehensive framework integrating high-dosage tutoring (HDT) with Response to Instruction and Intervention (RTI2) to ensure cohesive, research-backed academic support for students. The grant would seek HDT expansion to grades 6–8, while funding a research study to evaluate best practices and scale effective models statewide.

A grant to the Texas Education Agency will build on the state’s $200 million investment in high-impact tutoring to 265 school districts, which has demonstrated strong compliance, early student gains, and improved implementation fidelity through outcomes-based contracting. By expanding a regional ESC-led tutoring hub, strengthening educator pathways, and scaling proven models, this grant would accelerate learning recovery while establishing sustainable, performance-driven systems across Texas.

The ASSISTments Foundation (TAF) will pilot a tutoring program based on its flagship product, ASSISTments, a free math practice and assessment tool that provides students with immediate feedback and gives teachers data to effectively implement their curricula. TAF’s model will support paraprofessionals who are serving as tutors by leveraging the ASSISTments tool. TAF will pilot its math tutoring program in Baltimore City Public Schools across a large number of schools to target students in grades 3-8. While tutors will be hired by the school district, TAF will provide the relevant tools and training for the district to implement high-impact tutoring with  paraprofessionals.

The Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University (CEPR), in partnership with the CALDER at the American Institutes for Research and NWEA, will provide a consortium of mid- and large-sized districts–and the field generally–with an understanding of how well their COVID-19 academic recovery strategies like high-impact tutoring are working. This research will help guide recovery efforts and inform how districts and states allocate limited resources when ESSER funding ends. The research team will work with districts who collectively serve over 700,000 enrolled students. Using NWEA MAP interim assessment data, the team will provide districts with information at multiple points during the year so they can make course corrections in their recovery strategies as needed. The team will publish reports of lessons learned from these districts to help guide recovery efforts in the broader field.

The Commit Partnership will support school districts and charter networks in the Dallas region to embed the principles of high-impact tutoring into their overall instructional framework. Commit’s support for districts is critical as some Texas schools are still grappling with how to deliver tutoring to all struggling students, as required under a sweeping new Texas law. As other districts shift their focus from compliance to excellence, Commit will be a crucial partner in helping system leaders embed research-backed principles into their tutoring models. Commit will support districts by convening district leaders together monthly in tutoring focused learning communities that will ultimately support the expansion of high-dosage tutoring. Continuing the work they began last year, Commit will serve as a key partner of Dallas’s regional tutoring effort. They will continue to engage deeply with Dallas-area superintendents and other cabinet-level leaders to build an understanding of high-dosage tutoring as a priority and to develop aligned local policy and action.

The Literacy Lab’s mission is to provide students — in communities experiencing racial and/or economic inequities — with evidence-based, culturally responsive literacy instruction as preparation for academic, professional, and personal success. The organization launched the Leading Men Fellowship, which recruits local young men of color to serve as pre-K literacy tutors. During the 2023-24 school year, the Literacy Lab will place up to 35 Fellows in the Atlanta Metro region to provide high-impact literacy interventions to pre-K students. They aim to further study the impact of this model and add data to support its effectiveness and attract more supporters throughout the region.

A grant to The Mind Trust will help scale Indiana Learns, an out-of-school, voucher-based high-dosage tutoring program that leverages community partners, supportive state legislation, and a strong partnership between the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) and The Mind Trust to provide equitable learning recovery opportunities. By supporting this flexible, family-centered model, the grant would enhance access for underserved students, advance outcomes-based tutoring policies, and solidify Indiana’s leadership in developing scalable, high-quality education interventions.

Third Space Learning's spoken AI math tutor, Skye, provides high-dosage tutoring to elementary, middle, and high schools across the US and UK, helping schools close the math achievement gap by offering scalable, research-based, high-dosage tutoring at $150 per student, 90-95% cheaper than traditional human-led tutoring. Built on evidence-based learnings from over 2 million human tutoring lessons, spoken AI tutor Skye offers personalized instruction aligned with state standards to support classroom teaching and boost students' math achievement.