Building a Tutoring Culture; Strong District-Level Support for Student Success: April Opportunity Culture® Newsletter

by | April 12, 2023

The April newsletter includes a new module for scalable, sustainable tutoring; new publications and blogs; tools and resources; Opportunity Culture® news, and more.

ON-DEMAND LEARNING MODULE

Building a Scalable, Sustainable Tutoring Culture for All

What is a scalable, sustainable tutoring culture, and how can schools build it? Watch Public Impact®’s new, on-demand module for district and school leaders and those in Multi-Classroom Leader® (MCL) roles, which focuses on our “SIMPLE” tutoring culture framework.

Opportunity Culture® schools can create a tutoring culture when MCLs guide their teams to maximize the impact of small-group teaching and tutoring for all students, with all available adults.

The module: 

  • shares our research-informed definition of an MCL-led tutoring culture of small-group tutoring and teaching and how it can help all students; 
  • explores our SIMPLE method to build a tutoring culture; and
  • shows viewers how to build a plan to put SIMPLE into place on their MCL teams.

And from Opportunity Culture® Audio, listen to our latest short podcast—an interview with Public Impact®’s Okema Owens Simpson, who led the development of the SIMPLE framework. Simpson, a former MCL, provides an overview of the Multi-Classroom Leader® role and the power of small-group, in-school tutoring through MCL teams.

Read the full newsletter…

Note: Public Impact® and Opportunity Culture® are registered trademarks; MCL™, Multi-Classroom Leader®™, and SIMPLE-TC™ are trademarked terms, registration pending.

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