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Back to Basics: High Impact Tutoring
for Fresno Schools

GROW is instruction-first, Tier 2 high-impact tutoring. Aligned to your ELA standards, delivered by the same trained tutor every session, and measured on the assessments your district already trusts.

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Sample 12 Week HIT Plan for Grade 3 ELA - Aligned to Fresno Standards

Twelve Weeks. One Tutor. Measurable Reading Growth.

A 12-week Grade 3 reading plan where each session reinforces classroom instruction and the same tutor carries students the whole way.

 

The real differences

Compare Before You Commit

Every provider on the approved list will call it high-impact tutoring. These are the differences that decide whether students build momentum or simply log time.

 
  GROW BY PAPER THE "ANY-TUTOR-ANY-TIME" VENDORS THE "ALL-IN-ONE" BIG BOX VENDORS
Same trained tutor
every session		 Yes, all cycle Rotating, any-tutor-anytime No consistent human tutor
Tutor employment model U.S.-based W-2 workforce Independent contractors, sometimes not U.S. -based Software first, staffing varies
Aligned to your pacing
and standards		 Built to your curriculum Generic or tutor-dependent Fixed proprietary content
Scheduling, rostering,
and launch		 Fully managed by Paper Left to your team Mostly self-serve
ESSA evidence for the
tutoring program itself		 ESSA Level III for HIT Often borrowed from another product Evidence tied to software, not HIT
What the company
actually does		 Tutoring is the whole business Consumer tutoring marketplace/tutoring as gig work Tutoring is one product of many
the parT most providers sacrifice

Continuity is the real difference

High-impact tutoring works because of two things nearly every shortcut gives away. Protect both and students build. Break either and you are back to activity that looks busy and moves nothing.

TUTOR & CURRICULUM CONTINUITY

TUTOR & CURRICULUM CONTINUITY

When tutors change or instruction isn’t aligned to the classroom, students don’t build momentum, they start over.
Progress only happens when learning compounds, not resets.

LOGISTIC & OPERATIONAL OWNERSHIP
LOGISTIC & OPERATIONAL OWNERSHIP
 

When no one truly owns tutor scheduling, tutor session content, or student progress monitoring, consistency is the first thing to slip.
And over time, consistency gives way to what’s urgent.

UNCOMPROMISED SCALE & EXPANSION
UNCOMPROMISED SCALE & EXPANSION
 
Sustaining a program is hard enough—expanding it across grades, schools, and students is where it breaks.What doesn’t hold at scale doesn’t deliver impact.
TIER 2 / TARGETED SUPPORT FIDELITY
TIER 2 / TARGETED SUPPORT FIDELITY
 
Most tutoring labeled as Tier 2 operates more like Tier 1—general support without sustained intensity. Meaningful Tier 2 impact requires a higher level of consistency, structure, and intent.
MEASURABLE ACADEMIC OUTCOMES
MEASURABLE ACADEMIC OUTCOMES
 
If you’re not using assessments and tracking progress at a granular level, you’re relying on perception, not evidence.
What matters is whether students are measurably moving forward—and how you respond when they’re not.
BUILT FOR HOW FRESNO MEASURES SUCCESS

Data that shows growth, not just usage

Fresno runs on evidence, and so does GROW. Every student starts with a baseline, gets formative checks in every session, and finishes with an end-of-program assessment, all mapped to standards. You see growth as it happens, and Paper validates it against the measures you already trust.

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Before and after, at the standard level

 

Baseline, formative, and end-of-program assessments show exactly which standards students mastered.

 

Validated against your benchmarks

 

Results are checked against the measures your schools use, including i-Ready and California milestones. 

 

Fidelity and outcomes, tracked apart

 

Paper reports whether the program ran with fidelity and whether students grew, so the story is never blurred.

 

third-party program VALIDATION
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Validated for High-Impact Tutoring. Ask the Others to Prove the Same.

3× academic growth at uncompromised scale — embedded, enduring, and accountable. ESSA level III evidence. NSSA program design certified.

ESSA III
ESSA Level III 2025 - Promising Evidence
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NSSA Tutoring Program Design Certification
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Paper is a tutoring company. Not an education company adding tutoring on the side.

Since 2014, one focus: designing, delivering, and managing high-impact tutoring. When tutoring is the whole business, it gets the whole company behind it. That shows up in the tutors, the training, the program design, and the results.

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500+
Districts Partnered

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4M+
Students Supported

 

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2014
Single Focus on Tutoring Since

 

RESULTS FROM DISTRICTS WITH NEEDS LIKE FRESNO

Your Young Readers. Your Tier 2 Students. Your English Learners.
GROW Moves Them.

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Visalia Unified School District expands GROW into all elementary schools

In this video, you'll see Superintendent Shrum talks about the success of GROW during intersession and afterschool programs at a board meeting. The board unanimously approved a large expansion of GROW into all elementary schools in Visalia Unified using ELOP funding.

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4.5X increase in proficiency in 12 weeks | 4th grade ELA (Illinois)
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Dual Subject Acceleration
380% math growth | 91% increase in Advanced ELA mastery (New Mexico)
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California Districts Are on a Mission With Paper to Bring the Best Outcomes to the Most Students

GROW extends the people, practices, and high impact tutoring systems that forge meaningful and repeatable academic gains in California districts.

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