NSSA is devoted to translating promising research about how tutoring can benefit students into action on the ground. Our vision is that every K-12 student in need will have access to an effective tutor that champions and ensures their learning and success.
High-Impact Tutoring Tools
High-Impact Tutoring: Family and Caregiver Toolkit
The National Student Support Accelerator and Innovate Public Schools created this tool to help families understand and advocate for high-impact tutoring in their communities.
Tutoring Program Selection Toolkit
With insights from researchers and education leaders, this toolkit helps districts and states select the right tutoring program that meets the elements of high-impact tutoring.
Tutor Training Toolkit
This toolkit provides tutor program leaders with training development guidance, profiles of specific tutor trainings, and a searchable database.
High-Impact Tutoring: Out-of-School Time Playbook
This Playbook aims to support OST providers and networks that support OST providers that are interested in expanding or beginning to offer high-impact tutoring programs.
High-Impact Tutoring: Higher Education Institution Playbook
This Playbook aims to support HEIs in partnering with school districts to offer high-impact tutoring services.
Educator Union Leaders' Guide: High-Impact Tutoring Advocacy
Use this Educator Union Leaders Guide to understand bargaining implications and to champion high-impact tutoring programs in your school and/or district.
Toolkit for Tutoring Programs
This toolkit is designed to guide practitioners through designing and implementing a new high-impact tutoring program, or improving an existing one.
Tutoring Quality Improvement System
Take this free, research-based assessment of your tutoring program to find out how to aligne your program to our research-based quality standards.
PK - 8 Math Tutoring Resource Library
The PK - 8 Math Tutoring Resource Library provides tools for instructional strategies, culturally sustaining teaching, professional learning, and feedback.
Educator Guide: High-Impact Tutoring Advocacy
Use this Educator Guide to champion high-impact tutoring programs within your school and/or district.
Professional Learning Toolkit for Early Literacy Tutors
This Professional Learning Toolkit is intended for staff who design the sequence of professional development for early literacy tutors.
High-Impact Tutoring: District Playbook
This Playbook and the accompanying District Playbook Workbook is designed for school district staff interested in implementing High-Impact Tutoring programs in their districts.
High-Impact Tutoring Briefs
A Snapshot of State Tutoring Policies
As schools, districts, and states work to address the student needs following the pandemic, many turned to high-impact tutoring, a research-based approach to providing individualized instruction to… Read more.
The Effects of Virtual Tutoring on Young Readers: Results from a Randomized Controlled Trial
This study is the first randomized controlled trial of a virtual early literacy tutoring program. OnYourMark Education provides tutoring grounded in the science of reading and focused on foundational… Read more.