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A COVID-era tutoring initiative worked with thousands of Illinois students. Will it continue?

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 ...
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HIGH-IMPACT TUTORING DRIVES SIGNIFICANT STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT IN READING AND MATH

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 ...
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Illinois Tutoring Initiative to Scale Statewide in Partnership with Pearl, Tutoring Platform

The innovative program delivers valuable high-impact tutoring from future teachers in seven Illinois colleges and universities to districts throughout the state RICHMOND, Va., Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ --  Pearl, the research-backed tutor intelligence platform, ...
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Closing the gap: ISU-led tutoring program aims to help students impacted by COVID learning disruptions

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 ...
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Elementary board: MOU for tutoring program with NIU approved

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 ...
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Illinois school districts trying to help students catch up after remote learning loss

(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) ...
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Analysis: As $65 Million Initiative is Announced, a Look at 3,500 Local School Districts’ Ambitious Post-COVID Tutoring Plans

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 ...
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New state initiative designed to accelerate literacy, math learning

PITTSFIELD, Ill. — A new state initiative aims to help students regain learning loss tied to COVID-19. The Illinois Tutoring Initiative offers one-on-one or small group high-impact tutoring, in-person or ...
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Illinois Tutoring Initiative

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. ...
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SIU, SIC to offer tutoring for K-12 students who fell behind during pandemic

(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 ...
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SIU is looking for tutors for new statewide tutoring initiative to address learning loss

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 ...
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Dr. Christy Borders On Scaling ESSER-Funded Tutoring Across Illinois

Nate Casey, CRO of enterprise tutoring platform Pearl, and Christy Borders, EdD, Director of the Illinois Tutoring Initiative at Illinois State University explore the early days of launching the most ...
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LEARNING RENEWAL HIGH-IMPACT TUTORING

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 ...
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Hiccups and hard lessons: What it takes to bring big new tutoring programs to America’s classrooms

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, ...
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Illinois State University coordinates the Illinois Tutoring Initiative in partnership with state agencies

Illinois 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 (IBHE), ...
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Illinois schools prepare to tutor way out of learning loss

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 ...
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High-Impact Tutoring Initiatives

Creates two statewide tutoring initiatives targeting PK-12 students who are in districts or communities with limited capacity or resources to deliver high-quality tutoring programs. The Illinois Tutoring Initiative provides high-impact ...
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Illinois Tutoring Initiative seeking applicants from ISU students

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 ...
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ISU to join Governor’s Office, state agencies in Illinois Tutoring Initiative as response to COVID-19 impacts

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 ...
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‘Acceleration, not remediation’: NIU College of Education tapped to help COVID-driven Illinois Tutoring Initiative

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 ...
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GSU to offer tutoring opportunities through state initiative

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 ...
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Illinois State University coordinates the Illinois Tutoring Initiative in partnership with state agencies

  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 ...
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Illinois devoted $25 million in federal COVID funding to a tutoring program. How has it worked so far?

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. ...
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“Weathering the Storm”: Federal Efforts Helped Bolster U.S. Education Standing Among Peer Nations

(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 ...
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Tutoring Available to Help Illinois Students from Pandemic Learning Loss

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 ...
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Shaping Tomorrow: The Illinois Tutoring Initiative’s Impact on Post-Pandemic Education

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. ...
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A New Era in Education: The Illinois Tutoring Initiative Empowers Students Statewide

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 ...
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