High-Impact Tutoring: What Districts Need to Know
Discover how structured, consistent tutoring helps students build skills and improve outcomes.
What Is High Impact Tutoring?
High-impact tutoring is a research-aligned instructional model that provides students with consistent, personalized support multiple times per week. The structure allows tutors to focus on essential skills and reinforce classroom learning in ways that help students make steady academic progress. Sessions are delivered in small groups or 1:1 settings, allowing instruction to be tailored to each learner’s needs.
Who Benefits from High-Impact Tutoring?
High-impact tutoring supports a wide range of learners, particularly students who need additional help meeting academic expectations or strengthening foundational skills. It also benefits students who are ready for enrichment by extending their learning through personalized instruction. The model is flexible enough to support districts with varied academic needs across grade levels.
How Does High Impact Tutoring Work?
High-impact tutoring combines frequency, personalization, and alignment with classroom learning to drive results. Students participate in tutoring three or more times per week for 30–60 minutes, creating consistency that supports skill development. Instruction is based on assessment data and curriculum priorities, ensuring relevance to classroom learning. Students work with the same tutor each session to build trust and engagement, while ongoing progress monitoring guides instructional adjustments and provides districts with clear insight into student growth.
What Does The Research Say?
“Tutoring is most likely to be effective when delivered in high doses through tutoring programs with three or more sessions per week, with sessions that last for about 30-60 minutes per day, or intensive, week-long, small- group programs taught by talented teachers.”
“Most effective tutoring programs last for at least 10 weeks, but many last for the entire school year.”
According to the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT:
“In 2020, a meta-analysis of 96 tutoring students concluded that high-impact tutoring can help students make up three-to-fifteen months of lost learning – which makes it an ideal option for school districts nationwide that are still strategizing how to help their students rapidly recover lost learning.”
“For all grade levels, increasing tutoring frequency from one or two sessions per week to three sessions per week benefits student learning. Tutoring programs that provide three sessions per week generate an effect size of 0.37 standard deviations.”
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