The Revitalized Tutoring Center: A Guide to Transforming School Culture

by Jeremy Koselak, Brad Lyall

Overview

Tapping into the existing resources and staff available within your school, The Revitalized Tutoring Center provides an effective strategy to improve instruction and student performance. This practical guide shares the blueprint, best practices, and resources necessary to create and implement a robust, embedded tutoring center. This dynamic peer tutoring model brings together teachers, peers, and community members in a support network that identifies students in need and facilitates individualized instruction. With a peer tutoring model in place, schools are better positioned to initiate and sustain a variety of initiatives such as PLCs, RTI, formative assessment, community partnerships, and service learning, while creating equitable access and opportunity for all. This book illustrates how instructional leaders can leverage existing resources in a sustainable and cost-effective way to implement a model that ultimately leads to cultural changes, innovation, and significant academic improvement.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317289890
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/23/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	176
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

Jeremy Koselak is the RtI Coordinator and former Director of the tutoring center at an urban high school in Colorado Springs, and has worked extensively with at-risk high school students across all content areas.　

Brad Lyall is Intervention Coordinator and has worked with at-risk high school students in a variety of settings in the field of mathematics.

　

Table of Contents

Foreword

Thomas Many

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Meet the Author

Section I: The Why, What, and How Behind the Revitalized Tutoring Center

Chapter One Making the Case

Chapter Two Building the Core Components

Chapter Three Operationalizing the Model

Section II: Optimizing and Innovating the Revitalized Tutoring Center

Chapter Four Optimizing with Peer Tutors

Chapter Five Innovating and Customizing

Chapter 6: Conclusion

References

Appendix

A: Tutoring Center Implementation Rubric

B: Sample Student Graphs

C: Study Hall Exemption Contract

D: Curriculum Based Measure (CBM) for Math

E: Peer Tutor Recruiting Letter

F: Do’s and Don’ts of Math Tutoring

Glossary

Foreword

Thomas Many

Introduction

Acknowledgements

Meet the Author

Section I: The Why, What, and How Behind the Revitalized Tutoring Center

Chapter One Making the Case

Chapter Two Building the Core Components

Chapter Three Operationalizing the Model

Section II: Optimizing and Innovating the Revitalized Tutoring Center

Chapter Four Optimizing with Peer Tutors

Chapter Five Innovating and Customizing

Chapter 6: Conclusion

References

Appendix

A: Tutoring Center Implementation Rubric

B: Sample Student Graphs

C: Study Hall Exemption Contract

D: Curriculum Based Measure (CBM) for Math

E: Peer Tutor Recruiting Letter

F: Do’s and Don’ts of Math Tutoring

Glossary