DISTRICT PARTNERS

Florida Tutoring Advantage is a statewide tutoring program established by legislation to enhance K-5 student literacy and mathematics proficiency through high-impact tutoring. Strong partnerships with districts are essential to ensuring effective implementation, aligning support with local needs, and maximizing student success.

High-Impact Tutoring

High-impact tutoring (HIT) refers to personalized, consistent, and intensive instructional support tailored to individual student learning needs. Based on the research from Stanford’s National Student Support Accelerator (NSSA), this approach has been proven to accelerate student achievement through frequent, small-group or one-on-one sessions aligned with classroom instruction. 

Key elements of high-impact tutoring include:

Appropriate group sizes for tutoring sessions. 
Frequent sessions. 
Conducted by well-trained, engaging, and consistent tutors.
Utilizes high-quality, standards-aligned instructional materials.
Scheduled during the school day and includes collaboration with classroom teachers.
Employs data-driven practices to guide instruction and continuous improvement.
Emphasizes student-tutor relationship building to improve attendance outcomes.

HIT is targeted to the specific student’s academic needs and customized to meet each student’s unique learning style. Tutors use evidence-based curricula to design personally meaningful sessions, enhancing the relevance and effectiveness of learning. Tutors provide focused and consistent sessions, whether one-on-one or in small groups, ensuring students receive dedicated attention and thorough exploration of the subject matter. It is markedly different from traditional methods of tutoring, with key differences outlined below:

High-Impact Tutoring IS

With a consistent tutor
Relationship-focused
Focused on acceleration
Regularly scheduled sessions during the school day
Accessible to all eligible students
Data-informed for instruction

High-Impact Tutoring IS NOT

With a different tutor each time
Question-resolution focused
Focused on remediation
Scheduled as needed
Homework help
Reliant on family members for transportation or payment

How Florida Tutoring Advantage Works

The Lastinger Center will host informational sessions and reach out to districts to gauge their interest in participating in the FTA. 
The districts will then be asked to fill out an Interest Form to determine the total interest for the statewide program. 
Based on a combination of factors, including available funding, district interest, student performance data, student need and district commitment to supporting the program’s goals, FTA will then match services to interested districts to maximize student impact. 
Awarded districts will then be contacted by FTA staff to work through the next steps of setting up their particular service.

Program services include:

District-provided in-person tutoring

Florida Tutoring Advantage partner with select Districts who demonstrate the desire to build a program to be self administered. FTA may provide funding for technology, staffing, and services to support a high impact tutoring program.

Partner provided in-person tutoring

Florida Tutoring Advantage contracts with a variety of tutoring partners who provide in-person tutoring services in reading and mathematics to K-5 students.

Partner-provided,
virtual-instructor-led tutoring

Florida Tutoring Advantage contracts with a variety of tutoring partners who provide virtual tutoring services in reading and mathematics to K-5 students.

Partner-provided automated tutoring software

Florida Tutoring Advantage contracts with a variety of automated software partners to provide software licenses for software to support reading and mathematics to K-5 students.

Partner-provided
virtual-instructor-led tutoring

Florida Tutoring Advantage contracts with an AI platform to provide access to their platform for 6-12 students.

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What happens after District-Partner Matching?

After districts have shared their interest in services and Florida Tutoring Advantage has matched them with tutoring partner(s), Districts will need to:

Comply with the Guidelines to Participate.
Complete the Florida Tutoring Advantage Tutor Services Agreement (MOA).
Complete a Universal Data Sharing Agreement (DSA), if one does not exist already.
Meet with Tutoring Service Partner or with the Lastinger Center if implementing a District Program on a regular basis. 
Regularly report data to the Florida Tutoring Advantage program through an authorized data partner. 

What is the Universal Data Sharing Agreement?

Privacy and data security are a top priority to the UF Lastinger Center for Learning. Our work maintains the rigorous privacy standards established by the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA). The Universal Data Sharing Agreement/Guidance and Agreement for Data harmony, Responsibility, Retention, and Sharing (GADRRS) outlines confidentiality and data security expectations between the Center and participating districts. 

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Learn more about GADRRS

How will data be shared?

Participating districts will provide directory data to our tutoring partners to develop rosters for tutoring sessions. Data from all our partners will be transferred to our Tutoring Management System to clean and standardize all the data into a single dataset. With the use of FDOE data, the Florida Tutoring Advantage will track student progress and the impact of our program. 

A flow chart showing how districts develop student rosters, provide those to vendors who administer the tutoring, who then give data to the TMS to aggregate and standardize the data, who passes it to the FTA program. FTA takes that as well as student data from districts and state data from the FDoE to then perform data analysis & verification of student eligibility.
A flow chart showing how districts develop student rosters, provide those to vendors who administer the tutoring, who then give data to the TMS to aggregate and standardize the data, who passes it to the FTA program. FTA takes that as well as student data from districts and state data from the FDoE to then perform data analysis & verification of student eligibility.

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