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Tutoring powered by É«ÓûÍõ³¯ empowers community organizations to leverage É«ÓûÍõ³¯â€™ evidence-based program and curriculum, so that your students can meet your organization’s identified literacy goals. The É«ÓûÍõ³¯ team will provide the following:

• Training to your team to implement all aspects of the program
• Ongoing coaching and support to ensure successful implementation
• Access to assessments for students
• Authorize access to the É«ÓûÍõ³¯ Connects curriculum, ebooks, and online tutoring platform

Family engagement powered by É«ÓûÍõ³¯ is a program that brings literacy learning to family members and caregivers in your community.  As a partner with family engagement powered by É«ÓûÍõ³¯, your team will be trained and receive ongoing coaching to successfully leverage É«ÓûÍõ³¯’ robust family engagement resources. Resources include:

• A variety of literacy workshops for family members and caregivers, designed to be facilitated either in person or virtually (ex: Sample topics: Cultivating a Reading Environment and Supporting Your Growing Reader) 
• Activities and materials that caregivers can use to build literacy skills at home

For students to maximize their opportunities using tutoring powered by É«ÓûÍõ³¯â€™ program and curriculum, regularly scheduled tutoring is best. Consider what your expected participation is for students (regular participation, drop-in, sign-up and commit for a period of time). We’ve found that the more session times there are available, the easier it is to enroll students and enlist the support of volunteers.

We also recognize that time constraints are a reality in many ways (after school hours, other enrichment programs, or school schedules) and so recommend that your tutoring schedule is clearly defined as you begin to plan for implementing the É«ÓûÍõ³¯ curriculum. É«ÓûÍõ³¯ recommends students receive a minimum of 20 tutoring sessions to maximize literacy outcomes. If you are a program that works directly with families or are looking for ways to expand your family engagement to include literacy support, Powered by É«ÓûÍõ³¯ has a suite of family engagement resources.

É«ÓûÍõ³¯ will train your staff to deliver the two hours of training that tutors (volunteer or otherwise) will need to effectively tutor students. As you bring in new tutors, your team will have access to these training materials to onboard your tutors.

It is important to consider that if you haven’t worked with community volunteers in the past, it takes upfront and ongoing time to recruit, engage, and retain volunteers so that they are committed to you and your students. Volunteers can also have different background check requirements than staff, depending on your local policies. Having someone on your team who understands these processes and can ensure student safety is equally important.

At this time, tutoring powered by reading Partners does not include tutor recruitment for your program. If that is a barrier to supporting students in your community, please contact us to see if there is a solution available.

For tutoring powered by É«ÓûÍõ³¯: Here are some of the different roles that will need to be taken on by your staff – it’s up to you to determine how best to delegate, but our experience shows that capacity is needed for the following responsibilities:

• Overseeing tutoring implementation and supporting students/tutors throughout the sessions
• Tutor recruitment and onboarding
• Tutor coaching
• Managing student data and overseeing progress toward goals
• Family communication
• Background checks
• Participate in approximately 15 hours of onboarding and training

For family engagement Powered by É«ÓûÍõ³¯:

• Planning and facilitating family engagement workshops
• Providing onsite childcare for the first part of each workshop (ideally, children and families learn together in the second part of each workshop)
• Collecting and analyzing feedback from families
• Monitoring progress towards goals and course-correcting when needed
• Planning and executing on literacy resource distribution to families (potentially extending beyond workshop attendees)
• Participate in approximately 8 hours of onboarding and training

Compatible devices with the É«ÓûÍõ³¯ Connects tutoring platform:

• Windows-based laptop/desktop operating on Windows 10 and newer
• Mac-based laptop/desktop operating on MacOS 11 and newer (Big Sur, Monterey, Ventura, and Sonoma)
• Chromebooks operating on ChromeOS 112 and newer
• iPad Models Supported –  Only for student users.  Admin and tutor users cannot utilize RP Connects on iPads 
  • iPad: 5th Generation or newer
  • iPad Mini: 4th Generation or newer
  • iPad Air: 4th Generation or newer
  • iPad Pro: 2nd Generation or newer

PLEASE NOTE: At this time, Android-based tablets are not compatible with RP Connects for any users

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Yes, at this time, both the workshops and the at-home activities are available in English and Spanish. If you would like these materials to be translated into any additional languages, reach out to us and we should be able to accommodate that request.