​The Illinois Tutoring Initiative offers high-impact tutoring to support student recovery following educational setbacks due to COVID-19.

The initiative features:

• Collaboration between institutions of higher education and school districts of need  across the state;
• High-impact tutoring practices with focused 1:1 and small-group (maximum of three students) tutoring totaling three hours per week;
• Qualified tutors for K-12 students from among current teachers, retired teachers, teacher education candidates, higher education students, and other community partners;
• High-impact tutoring in literacy and math for students in Grades 3-8 (starting in spring 2022) and online tutoring in high school mathematics (starting in fall 2022);
• A combination of in-person and online tutoring; and
• Training, support, and supervision of tutors.