There are 600,000 individuals enrolled in teacher-preparation programs who can help provide critical academic and social-emotional support to students now, while gaining experience to help prepare them to lead classrooms in the future. These aspiring teachers can augment in-person, virtual, and hybrid learning by providing essential academic support through high-impact tutoring – helping both to support learning acceleration and strengthen pipelines into teaching.
The Partnering Aspiring Teachers with High-Need Schools (PATHS) to Tutor Act would provide meaningful educational opportunities to students and support workforce development by:
- Ensuring students in high-need communities receive targeted academic support through intensive, structured tutoring opportunities
- Strengthening the pipeline of future teachers by placing teacher-candidates into tutoring roles
- Reducing the economic burden on aspiring teachers by allowing successful completion of a tutoring placement to qualify for national service educational awards granted by the Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS)
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Supporters
The PATHS to Tutor Act is supported by Deans for Impact, its national network of leaders in educator preparation, and the following organizations:
- AACTE (American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education)
- AASA (The School Superintendents Association)
- AESA (Association of Educational Service Agencies)
- Alliance for Catholic Education (ACE)
- CASEL
- Committee for Children
- CORE Learning
- EduTutorVA
- InnovateEDU
- NASBE (National Association of State Boards of Education)
- National Center for Grow Your Own
- NBCDI (National Black Child Development Institute)
- NCTR (National Center for Teacher Residencies)
- New Jersey Tutoring Corps, Inc.
- New Leaders
- NIET (National Institute For Excellence in Teaching)
- NREA (The National Rural Education Association)
- NREAC (National Rural Education Advocacy Consortium)
- Teach Plus
- Teach For America
- Teaching Matters
- The Education Trust
- The Learning Accelerator
- TNTP
- Virginia Learns
Learn more about some of the programs that are standing up high-impact tutoring initiatives across the country:
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Proving the possible: how an Ohio partnership is bringing tutoring to scale
Like many schools across the US impacted by the pandemic, Crim Elementary School in northwest Ohio..
May 24, 2023
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Nurturing student learning and motivation through the application of cognitive science
Cece Zhou
May 02, 2023
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From tutor to teacher: how Illinois’s state tutoring program is building local pathways into teaching
In a brightly-lit corner of the library at Rochelle Middle School, aspiring math teacher Angie...
Cece Zhou
March 09, 2023
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Building confidence and joy: how tutoring is sparking promise in New Jersey
Patrick Steck
September 27, 2022
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A Tutoring Partnership Grows in Texas, Part 1
Jana Barnett, Associate Dean of Educator Certification at Dallas College School of Education (SOE)
May 23, 2022
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