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.