Step Up Tutoring Receives $150,000 Innovation Grant from National Nonprofit Accelerate to Make High-Impact Tutoring Sustainable and Cost-Effective
WASHINGTON (PRWEB) June 06, 2023 -- Step Up Tutoring today announced it will receive a $150,000 innovation grant from Accelerate, a national nonprofit working to make high-impact tutoring a standard feature of the American school day. With this grant, Step Up Tutoring will implement a comprehensive in-school-day math tutoring program for students at Mission Preparatory School, a high-quality K-8 public charter school in San Francisco, CA.
“Step Up is grateful to be selected as a recipient of this prestigious grant from Accelerate. This award will help us to expand our program and positively impact more students through consistent tutoring delivered during the school day. We are thrilled to have the opportunity to learn alongside a national community of leading researchers and practitioners with the shared goal of expanding impactful, cost-effective tutoring,” said Samantha Olivieri, CEO of Step Up Tutoring.
Step Up Tutoring will partner with Mission Preparatory School to provide virtual, high dosage 1:1 tutoring in math to students in grades 3-7. Each participating teacher will work with a dedicated cohort of tutors who are trained college students, paid through Federal Work-Study or the Californians for All College Corps. Tutors will meet with students during daily math periods, and will also provide additional intervention support to meet the specific needs of each child. Step Up will also be partnering with the National Student Support Accelerator to research the impact of this model and to share lessons with the field to inform the expansion of cost-effective tutoring.
“The evidence behind tutoring as an intervention is strong and the field is making tremendous progress, but we still need more providers with a proven track record that can also scale,” said Accelerate CEO Kevin Huffman. “Before the federal pandemic relief dollars dry up, we have an opportunity – and a responsibility – to identify these providers and ensure they are able to deliver cost-effective programs and present evidence that they get results for kids.”
Step Up Tutoring was selected for a Call to Effective Action because of its commitment to developing and scaling a research-backed tutoring model that improves outcomes for all students, especially those in historically underserved communities.
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ABOUT STEP UP
Step Up Tutoring is a California-based non-profit organization that drives student success in under-resourced communities by providing free virtual relationship-based tutoring to elementary school students. Step Up recruits, trains, and supports mission-driven tutors from across the state, including through partnerships with over 25 colleges and universities to engage college students as tutors through Federal Work-Study and Californians for All College Corps. Founded in 2020 in partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, Step Up has served over 2,500 students to date. Our vision is that impactful and cost-effective relationship-based tutoring is accessible to every child in need.
For more information, visit http://www.stepuptutoring.org.
ABOUT ACCELERATE
Accelerate is a nonprofit organization, incubated and launched by the national nonprofit America Achieves, that seeks to embed high-impact tutoring programs into public schools now and for the long term. Launched in April 2022 with an initial fund of $65 million, Accelerate funds and supports innovation in schools, launches high-quality research, and advances a federal and state policy agenda to support this work.
Accelerate is leading efforts to improve practice on multiple fronts, including as a lead technical assistance partner to the National Partnership for Student Success (NPSS). The NPSS is a joint partnership of more than 100 organizations, The Department of Education, AmeriCorps, the Johns Hopkins Everyone Graduates Center to launch a new coalition formed to expand high-quality tutoring, mentoring, and other evidence-based support programs, with the goal of ensuring an additional 250,000 adults serve in these roles over the next three years.
Accelerate is supported by Citadel founder and CEO Kenneth C. Griffin; Arnold Ventures; the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; the Overdeck Family Foundation; and the Walton Family Foundation.
For more information, visit http://www.accelerate.us.
Samantha Olivieri, Step Up Tutoring, https://www.stepuptutoring.org/, 1 310-991-6928, [email protected]
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