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High-Impact Tutoring

As part of our continued commitment to this work, CityTutor DC is accepting proposals on a rolling basis, looking to partner with organizations interested in helping develop high-impact curriculum or providing high-impact tutoring services to DC public and public charter students in Grades K-12. Interested Service Providers can submit proposals to become a 22-23 CityTutor…

Education Reform Now released a report featuring CityTutor DC that analyzes a series of interviews with local stakeholders to understand how HIT programs are actually being implemented in six geographically and demographically diverse school districts.  “One way that CityTutor has succeeded in recruiting 1,000 tutors is through partnering extensively with universities in DC–a mutually beneficial…

WASHINGTON, DC (Feb. 23, 2023) – Georgetown University and CityTutor DC have formed a partnership to expand the DC Schools Project at Georgetown’s Center for Social Justice Research, Teaching & Service. Georgetown University students will provide high-impact tutoring and support services for migrant and newcomer youth in Washington, DC. DC Schools Project’s individual or small…

CityTutor DC (CTDC) is proud to announce expanded partnerships with six tutoring provider partners—including universities, tutoring organizations, and school networks—to provide school day high-impact tutoring (HIT) for several hundred students throughout the District this school year. Research has shown that integrating school day HIT allows schools to maximize access for students who could benefit most…

Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Washington (BGCGW) will launch a new CityTutor Hub for the 2022-2023 school year, serving students in Wards 7 and 8 at their Clubhouse 14 and FBR Club @THEARC locations. For more than 136 years, BGCGW has offered out-of-school time programming for Washington, DC, children and youth. BGCGW’s Mike McDonald,…

Higher Achievement DC launched as one of the first CityTutor Hubs in 2021 and will continue tutoring students at Meridian Public Charter Middle School in DC’s Ward 1 this school year. They will also expand their Hub to service students at Ida B. Wells Middle School in Ward 4.  Higher Achievement has a proven model…

Horton’s Kids launched one of the first CityTutor Hubs in 2021 and will continue operating from Horton’s Kids new hub site in DC’s Ward 8, near the Wellington Park and Stanton Oaks neighborhoods this year. Horton’s Kids is deeply embedded in neighborhoods in southeast DC that have experienced decades of disinvestment. They provide extensive academic…

GOODProjects launched one of the first CityTutor Hubs in 2021, tutoring students in the GOODZone in Ward 6, and will continue this school year. This CityTutor Hub will recruit and train reading and math tutors to support and serve students at their GOODLearning Hub. Darius Baxter, Chief Engagement Officer at GOODProjects, said this partnership would…

ABC’s Justin Finch interviews CityTutor DC Executive Director, Cat Peretti and visits CTDC Hub Hortons Kids for a story about how high-impact tutoring is helping to accelerate learning for students in the District.

Mary’s Center will launch as a new CityTutor Hub, providing high-impact literacy and math tutoring to students at Tubman Elementary School in Ward 1.  Tollie B. Elliott, Sr., M.D., CEO of Mary’s Center, is confident after more than three decades of Mary’s Center building better futures in the DC community, that partnering with CityTutor DC…