Consultative Conversation: Scaling High-dosage Tutoring as a Strategy to Recover Lost Learning

During this conversation, John Gomperts, former President and CEO of America’s Promise Alliance, moderated presentations by four thought leaders with proposed initiatives designed to scale high-dosage tutoring in response to today’s education crisis. The review of these proposals was followed by a discussion of their similarities and differences and included commentary from ​Shirley Sagawa, former CEO and Co-Founder of Service Year Alliance, about the challenges and opportunities and what it really takes to scale high-dosage tutoring.

Thought leaders sharing their proposals included:

• Neil Campbell, Director of Innovation, Center for American Progress
  • The Opportunity and Counseling Corps
• Vikki Katz, Associate Professor in the School of Communication and Information, Rutgers University
  • ​Digital Learning Ambassador Corps
• Susanna Loeb, Director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University
  • ​National Student Support Accelerator
• Robert Slavin, Director of the Center for Research and Reform in Education at Johns Hopkins University
  • ​Marshall Plan for Education

Community commentators, Karine Apollon, CEO & President, Apollon & Partners; Munro Richardson, Executive Director, Read Charlotte; and Nati Rodriguez, Program Director and Founder, Step Up Tutoring, also weighed in with their responses to the proposals and their thoughts on what it takes to make a tutoring program effective, based on their direct experience in local communities and with national programs.