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High-Impact Tutoring Built to Move 3-8 Math and ELA Proficiency in Philadelphia

Close gaps before they compound. Strengthen Tier 1. See it working every session.

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Philadelphia GROW Plan Samples

Sample GROW Tutoring Plans for Grades 3-8 Math and ELA, Made for Philadelphia Schools 

See how GROW sessions build toward Pennsylvania standards, one objective at a time. These are samples only. Your school's program is built with you around your curriculum and pacing guide.

What's in the guide:

    • A sample scope and sequence for every grade, 3-8, in both Math and ELA, aligned to Pennsylvania standards
    • The daily objective each session targets, and how lessons build toward the full rigor of a standard
    • A preview of how we customize your program to your pacing guide and curriculum before launch
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High-Impact Tutoring FAQs for Pennsylvania Schools

tudents take a baseline assessment before launch, tutors capture formative data every session, and you get mid-program and end-of-program reviews covering attendance, dosage, and standards mastery. Where available, we validate results against your district data, including benchmark assessments and PSSA scores.

That's the point of session-level data. You see whether students are mastering each objective week by week, so you can course-correct mid-cycle instead of waiting for a benchmark window or state scores.
It's a capacity question. A fully loaded interventionist spends much of the day on meetings, paperwork, and progress monitoring. GROW puts the investment into instructional time, with program design, tutor staffing, and reporting included. 
 

Many schools use Ready to Learn Block Grant funds, and tutoring is an allowable use. Eligibility and approval follow your district's process, so Paper can help you map options for your school before you commit.

GROW is live instruction with a person, not passive software. Students talk through problems, show their work, and get feedback from a tutor who knows them. The real line is between active and passive learning, and GROW sits on the active side. The screen is simply how the tutors get in the room. 

Most tutoring breaks down on consistency: rotating tutors, drop-in schedules, or content disconnected from class. GROW keeps the same tutor with the same students every session, aligns to your pacing guide, and Paper owns the scheduling and staffing that usually cause programs to drift. 

Further, high impact tutoring is intervention-level support. Consistency makes it high dosage, continuity in instruction and relationships (aligned content, the same tutor) makes it high impact. 

Paper handles tutor staffing, scheduling, lesson preparation, and reporting. Teachers see session data and stay informed, and tutoring reinforces what they're already teaching. The goal is to get their best instructional hours back into Tier 1.

We build your scope and sequence from your pacing guide and adopted curriculum, and you review it before launch. Students practice what they're learning in class, so tutoring strengthens Tier 1 instead of competing with it.

High-impact tutoring is small-group instruction, about three times a week, with the same tutor over time and content aligned to class. Those conditions come from decades of research. GROW is designed around them, holds ESSA Level III evidence, and has earned the NSSA Tutoring Program Design Badge.

 

Yes. Most schools start where the need is sharpest, like a single grade or a core Tier 2 group, and expand from there. Paper can help you size a starting point that fits your budget.

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Consistency is the Intervention

Students furthest from grade level make real progress when the same trained tutor shows up session after session, aligned to what they're learning in class. 

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 Pennsylvania MEASURES SUCCESS

Data that shows growth, not just usage

 Every student starts with a baseline, gets formative checks every session, and finishes with an end-of-program assessment, all mapped to Pennsylvania standards. You see growth as it happens, and Paper validates it against the measures your school already uses.

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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 school uses, including Star benchmarks and the PSSA.

 

Fidelity and outcomes, tracked apart

 

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

 

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

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RESULTS FROM DISTRICTS WITH NEEDS LIKE yours

Your Learners Grades Behind . Your Tier 2 Students. Your EL Population.
GROW Moves Them All.

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PRAIRIE HILLS ELEMENTARY DISTRICT, ILLINOIS 

From "Fighting Chance" to Proficiency to Accelerated Learning  

In this video, you'll hear from Dr. Brown explaining how GROW helped moved students who were up to 3 grade levels behind to proficiency. When more students became proficient, you'll hear how Dr. Brown changed district goals from proficiency to acceleration. 

> Learn more about high impact tutoring for rapid acceleration 

 

LAS CRUCES PUBLIC SCHOOLS, NM

Quality Tutors for English Learners and Tier 2/3 Students When Local Tutors Couldn't be Sourced

In this video, you'll learn from Carla Ragan about the difficulties of finding local tutors for in-person tutoring, especially considering the bilingual needs of Las Cruces Public Schools. GROW was able to leverage our dedicated tutor workforce, including bilingual tutors, to provide the reach and access needed to make significant gains in the Tier 2 populations and English Learning sub-groups specifically. 

> Learn more about our success using a bilingual-inclusive model in Las Cruces Public Schools. 

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