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Happy Holidays from FEV Tutor!

May your season be filled with peace, joy, and cherished moments.

Thank you for being part of our FEV Tutor family. Wishing you a healthy and happy holiday season!

We are thrilled to announce that FEV Tutor has earned the Tutoring Program Design Badge by the National Student Support Accelerator (NSSA) at Stanford University! 🎉

This recognition reflects our unwavering commitment to high-impact tutoring practices that deliver measurable results for students and schools nationwide. Our evidence-based approach ensures each program is tailored to meet the specific needs of our educational partners, empowering students and supporting educators every step of the way.

A huge thank you to our dedicated team, our partners, and the educators we collaborate with who share our mission of educational gaps and accelerating student learning. Together, we are shaping the future of education!

Let’s keep driving innovation and our impact in tutoring. Learn more about our approach and award-winning program design: https://www.fevtutor.com/

🔍 Learn more about the Tutoring Program Design Badge and the review process by visiting the NSSA Badge FAQ and webpage: https://studentsupportaccelerator.org/tqis/badging

Next week, we’re off to San Francisco, CA, for our last event of the year—an RTM National Superintendents Forum!

This esteemed assembly brings together a diverse array of Superintendents from K-12 public school districts nationwide and features more than 20 Superintendent-led content sessions. We can't think of a better event to end the year with.

If you'll be at the forum, reach out! We'd love to connect.

This week is the Institute for Education Innovation's biggest event of the year, and we are so excited to attend!

If you'll be in NYC for Supes' Choice 2024, reach out! We are proud to be a part of the and we'd love to meet up, whether you're an instructional leader, a fellow solution provider, or an EdTech investor.

See you on the red carpet! 📸

The FEV Tutor team is thrilled to congratulate our partner Ector County ISD on being named 🏆 District of the Year 🏆 by K-12 Dive!

Virtual high-impact tutoring is predictable, equitable, and scalable, driving student growth and outcomes at districts and schools nationwide. We're proud to work with the Ector County ISD community and celebrate this well-deserved recognition! 🎉

District of the Year: Ector County ISD In the past five years, the Texas district’s investments in staffing and high dosage tutoring are paying off.

The nationwide decrease in literacy rates has become a pressing concern—one that educators cannot ignore.

Our new whitepaper identifies and analyzes the contributing factors to the U.S. literacy crisis, including outdated literacy pedagogy, the residual impacts of the pandemic, teacher shortages, chronic absenteeism, and the misalignment of high-quality instructional materials.

Get your copy of the report here: https://bit.ly/4dsvVSx

Social-emotional learning isn’t just a feel-good activity. Nor is it a substitute for core academic subjects like math, science, or literacy. So what is it?

SEL adds an extra dimension to education, giving students a framework to develop the soft skills that are critical for lifelong happiness, career achievement, and healthy relationships. Implementing SEL into daily classroom instruction can make a huge difference for students and teachers. It can completely turn around classroom culture and engagement while driving student growth.

If you're curious about social-emotional learning or want to learn how you can embrace SEL in your classrooms, check out our new blog post: https://bit.ly/4gfaoiB

What Is Social and Emotional Learning? And How To Successfully Incorporate SEL Strategies in the Classroom What is social-emotional learning? And how can you incorporate SEL strategies in the classroom? We cover these questions and more in our comprehensive SEL blog.

FEV Tutor views outcomes-based contracts as a win-win. For districts, it gives them more negotiating power and a promise of more ROI. For us, it gives us increased school buy-in and clear targets, streamlining the design process.

In 2023, we ran a 12-week program for Duval County Public Schools, built on an outcomes-based contract. The program focused specifically on 8th grade pre-algebra students with low Florida Statewide Assessment (FSA) test scores and used a mixed approach of tight collaboration and physical site visits. The approach yielded strong results, with students meeting 53% of the set goals.

In fact, the initiative was so successful that we collaborated on a second run for 2023-2024. In this initiative, 61% of students demonstrated a learning gain on FAST PM 3, with individual schools reaching as high as 80%. And 29% of students achieved proficiency.

If you're interested in learning more about how FEV uses outcomes-based contracting to deliver powerful accelerated student outcomes, set up a call with our team. 👉 https://bit.ly/3YAYAkn

Positive student-tutor relationships are a critical component of successful tutoring sessions. In fact, the National Student Support Accelerator lists sustained and strong relationships between students and their tutors as one of the core characteristics of high-impact tutoring programs.

Our new blog explores student-tutor relationships—why they matter, the pitfalls you'll face with random tutor assignments, and how to build strong relationships over time, even in digital settings.

Check it out now: https://bit.ly/3WGkHmS

Ector County recently announced that it was able to improve student outcomes by 5% above the Texas state average. This is even more impressive when you factor in that in 2018, Ector County ISD was ranked a “D” according to Texas Accountability Rates (TEA).

How did they do it?

Ector County achieved these significant results by partnering with FEV Tutor and using an outcomes-based contract for high-impact tutoring.

Here's some more information about our outcomes-based contracts:

⭐In 2020, we partnered with Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research (CEPR) to research how to create effective outcomes-based contracts.

⭐Ector County was the first outcomes-based contract to come from this partnership.

⭐FEV Tutor has continued to use this strategy very effectively across districts, including Duval County Public Schools and Jackson Public Schools. *But you don't have to take our word for it. The Southern Education Foundation studied our use of outcomes-based contracts and published its results in this case study: https://lnkd.in/gjHvuhsA

If you're interested in learning more about how FEV uses outcomes-based contracting to deliver powerful accelerated student outcomes, set up a call with our team. 👉 https://bit.ly/3Sxjihm

How will AI shape the future of education? At FEV, we are excited to partner with Dr. Scott Muri, Ed.D., Ector County ISD, and the National Student Support Accelerator on an exciting new study.

We’re looking at how AI can strengthen the student-tutor experience and improve student outcomes. While the full results aren't out yet, FEV and Ector County are already seeing AI's transformative role in student learning.

Artificial intelligence has the potential to personalize education, provide real-time feedback, and empower educators to focus on what matters most—teaching. This study is just one way that we’re using AI to improve learning for our partners and their students. FEV believes in the power of AI to transform learning and we're excited to continue harnessing AI's power to support students and educators alike. Stay tuned for more insights from this groundbreaking study!