WASHINGTON DC – Intervene K-12a Houston-based online tutoring platform, announced today that it will receive a $150,000 innovation grant from Speed up, a national nonprofit organization working to make high-impact tutoring a standard feature of the American school day. The grant will further research on the impact of Intervene K-12’s unique tutoring method that combines high-impact tutoring with mentoring to foster academic success and career exploration. The grant will also support Intervene K-12’s unique curricular integration and staffing model to hire tutors from various business sectors to expose scholars to diverse professionals.
“Our unique combination of mentoring and career exploration has been implemented in dynamic urban districts with measurable and repeatable results,” said Aaron McCloud, founder and CEO of Intervene K-12. “With this grant, we will be able to hire even more tutors from diverse personal and professional backgrounds to allow scholars to connect with tutors who look like them and work in highly desirable fields.”
Intervene K-12 uses evidence-based lessons that are designed especially for Intervene K-12 students to meet them where they are. These lessons are leveraged through high-impact online tutoring within the school day, during which small groups of three to five students facing similar challenges are paired with a tutor.
Using a proprietary data-driven intervention solution, Intervene K-12 can provide tutors and teachers with real-time progress analysis, making it easy to quickly identify and address issues. In reading, Intervene K-12 sees an average growth of 26% over the state benchmark. This means that the average Intervene K-12 student not only grows to meet the minimum required by the state, but exceeds it. The data shows similar growth among students in mathematics. For ELL students, Intervene K-12 sees average growth of one proficiency level in all four domains of language acquisition, reading, writing, speaking, and listening, after participating in Intervene K-12. The grant will also help advance research on the impact of Intervene K-12 on academic success.
“The evidence behind mentoring as an intervention is strong and the field is making great progress, but we still need more providers with a proven track record who can scale as well,” said Accelerate CEO Kevin Huffman. “Before federal pandemic relief dollars run out, we have an opportunity – and a responsibility – to identify these providers and ensure they can deliver cost-effective programs and present evidence that they are getting results for children.”
Intervene K-12 was selected for an Effective Call to Action grant due to its commitment to developing and scaling a research-backed mentoring model that improves outcomes for all students, especially those in historically underserved communities.
About Intervene K-12: Founded in 2016, Intervene K-12 exists to remove the barriers that stand in the way of our nation’s students, especially those left behind by the system. Each year, the company works with more than 20 districts and more than 30,000 young scholars to provide high-impact, culturally responsive tutoring for K-12 and English learners. Intervene K-12’s proprietary data-driven intervention solutions are designed to identify and address issues that prevent individual students from succeeding. Through a team of qualified tutors from educational, corporate, and business environments, the company works to enhance academic progress, expose students to high-growth career opportunities, and foster social-emotional learning. The result is a holistic teaching model that equips students with the tools they need to thrive in and out of the classroom, paving the way for lasting success. For more information visit https://intervenek12.com/.
About Speed Up: Accelerate is a nonprofit organization, incubated and launched by the national nonprofit organization America Achieves, that seeks to bring high-impact tutoring programs into public schools now and for the long term. Launched in April 2022 with seed funding 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 support partner for the National Association for Student Success (NPSS). The NPSS is a joint partnership of more than 100 organizations, the Department of Education, AmeriCorps, Johns Hopkins Graduate Center for All to launch a new coalition formed to expand high-quality mentoring, mentoring, and other support programs based in evidence, with the goal of ensuring an additional 250,000 adults fill these roles over the next three years.
Accelerate is endorsed by Citadel Founder and CEO Kenneth C. Griffin; Arnold Enterprises; the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation; the Overdeck Family Foundation; and the Walton Family Foundation.
For more information visit http://www.accelerate.us.
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