Excerpt from the Dayton Daily News
Wright State University, University of Dayton and Learn to Earn will work with four area school districts on high-dosage tutoring, helping at-risk students catch up on learning they lost during the pandemic.
The Ohio Department of Education awarded the three organizations $637,000 to work with Dayton Public, Fairborn, Huber Heights and West Carrollton schools for high-dosage tutoring. The money is coming from COVID-19 state funds and ends in spring 2024.
High-dosage tutoring is generally defined as a very small group tutoring session at least three times a week, or at least 50 hours over 36 weeks.
“These learning opportunities for our students have the potential to decrease the academic impact of lost instruction time due to the pandemic. The main objective is to use these funds to provide high-quality tutoring to accelerate learning,” said Romena Holbert, an associate professor of teacher education at Wright State involved with the grant.
Holbert said the goal of the program is to enhance what the individual school districts and teachers are already doing in their classrooms without adding a large administrative burden onto teachers. Instead of asking teachers what they need to be teaching, the district’s curriculum directors are working with the tutors, and the teachers can be as involved as they want to be.
WSU students will work in Fairborn and Huber Heights due to how close those schools are to the respective universities, Holbert said. West Carrollton has not been as easy to source tutors for, but West Carrollton has a long history of working with WSU, Holbert said.
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