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(ILLINOIS) – Four faculty members from Southern Illinois University Edwardsville and Southern Illinois University Carbondale were awarded the Southern Illinois University System’s 2024 Faculty Collaboration Award at the SIU Board ...

http://illinoistutoringinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/A_COVID-era_tutoring_initiative_worked_with_thousands_of_Illinois_students_Will.mp3 Christy Borders is the director of the Illinois Tutoring Initiative, an interagency, statewide program that brought high-impact tutoring to thousands of Illinois students following the COVID-19 pandemic. A statewide ...

ILLINOIS’ NATIONALLY RECOGNIZED TUTORING PROGRAM POINTS TO STRONG RECOVERY FROM THE PANDEMIC SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Board of Education, in partnership with the Illinois Board of Higher Education (IBHE) and ...

Eighth-grader Fischer Killian sat in a Bloomington Junior High School classroom last spring and offered a blunt assessment of remote learning during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. “It was terrible,” Killian ...

No changes to COVID-19 policies from end of last year At its monthly meeting Tuesday, the Rochelle Elementary School District Board of Education unanimously approved a memorandum of understanding with ...

(The Center Square) – Illinois school districts are in catch-up mode after the COVID-19 pandemic set back the development of many students. During Wednesday’s Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE) ...

By Phyllis W. Jordan, Bella DiMarco & Thomas Toch April 5, 2022 Governors’ 2024 Education Priorities: Early Childhood, Curriculum, School Choice, Mental Health Get stories like these delivered straight to ...

COVID-19's ongoing disruption has taken a toll on the learning and social/emotional well-being of students in P-12 schools – and the Illinois Tutoring Initiative (ITI) stands ready to provide support. ...

(WSIL) -- The SIU Carbondale and SIU Edwardsville Schools of Education, along with Southeastern Illinois College, are partnering with colleges and universities across the state to provide tutoring to students ...

Illinois is launching a statewide tutoring initiative to help K-12 students who were disproportionately affected by the pandemic. The initiative is looking for college students, retired teachers and community members ...

The Illinois State Board of Education created two pathways for school districts to provide high-impact tutoring to support learning recovery. High-impact tutoring, an evidence-based practice recommended in the Illinois P-20 ...

Teacher Kim Meaders has a singular focus when she steps into her Arkansas school just before 7 a.m.: keeping her school’s eighth and ninth graders from falling off track. Meaders, ...

URBANA — Illinois schools are signing up for a new state tutoring initiative to help the students who struggled most in remote school. By this summer, the state plans to ...

NORMAL, Ill. (WMBD) — A new state-wide initiative is connecting college-aged tutors with school-aged children to combat two years of learning disruptions caused by the pandemic. The Illinois Tutoring Initiative (ITI) will ...

Illinois State University will be partnering with the Governor’s Office, the Illinois State Board of Education, the Illinois Board of Higher Education and the Illinois Community College Board in coordination ...

DeKalb, Ill. — The Northern Illinois University College of Education is teaming with the State of Illinois to provide tutoring that will support students whose learning has been impacted by the COVID-19 ...

Governors State University (GSU) will help educate Illinois students by hiring 288 tutors for a state-wide initiative. The university will hire tutors as a result of the Illinois Tutoring Initiative, which ...

  llinois State University (ISU) is coordinating the Illinois Tutoring Initiative in partnership with the Governor’s Office, the Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE), the Illinois Board of Higher Education ...

Melissa Sago is the principal at Lincoln-Douglas Elementary School in Freeport. She remembers looking at student academic data last fall and seeing her students -- the majorityof whom are low-income -- struggling. ...

(via The White House) The OECD released international testing data from the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). The PISA measures 15-year-olds’ performance in math, science, and reading worldwide every three ...

Tutoring Available to Help Illinois Students from Pandemic Learning Loss (via The Center Square) — High-impact tutors are available to help school children in Illinois play catch up after the COVID-19 ...

A Renewed Focus on Learning As the world continues to grapple with the after-effects of the pandemic, the Illinois Tutoring Initiative is taking a proactive approach in reimagining K-12 education. ...

Stepping Up to the Challenge After a period of uncertainty in education due to the pandemic, the Illinois Tutoring Initiative has taken decisive steps to support K-12 students across the ...