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Accountability
Targeted Assistance
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Provider: The Learning Curve
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| Provider Details |
| Program Areas: | Reading, Writing, Mathematics |
| Grades: | K, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, Post 12 |
| Place of Service: | Student's School, Business |
| Type of Organization: | For Profit |
Experience with:
Limited English Proficient (LEP) students: Yes
Students with disabilities: Yes |
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| Program Description (written by provider) |
The Learning Curve is an academic support center offering individual and/or small–group tutoring sessions for students in need of content area or organizational support beyond the formal school day. Our goal is to assist students, who have been identified by data or parents request, to strengthen specific skills to help them achieve academic success. Students participate in tutoring sessions designed to introduce and reinforce strategies for organizing and interacting with new information. They are shown how to transfer these strategies successfully to the classroom setting to demonstrate their knowledge. The goal of The Learning Curve is to offer students additional support reflective of their specific needs and learning styles.
The Learning Curve’s SES program will be managed by the director who will be responsible for supervising implementation of the program and monitoring employees’ performance. Tutorial instruction will be delivered in three ways: one-to-one instruction; small group tutorials (3 - 5 children per tutor) and content or skill-based programs which allow for a maximum of ten students. Our SES program will use instructional strategies and curricula that are research-based. The primary materials from Curriculum Associates are research-based and provide instruction for the five components of reading identified in the report of the National Reading Panel: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Comprehension and Vocabulary: Phonics for Reading for Grades 1 – 3; Academic Workout Literacy Kits for grades 3 – 8 and Focus on Mathematics for grades 1 – 8.
Each of these instructional formats provides consistent, high-quality support to students and reflects the research-based Response to Intervention model: instruction will be explicit, purposeful and monitored consistently.
One-to-one tutorials, necessary for students who need intensive intervention on an individual basis, fulfill the RTI Tier III instruction model which is recommended to significantly increase instructional support and accelerate learning. Small group tutorials provide services in a less intensive model but still allow interventions that have several strengths as recommended by RTI research:
• Instruction is explicit and systematic with clear objectives
• Consistent teaching routines provide time for repeated practice and cumulative review
• Feedback is immediate and corrective
Focus on Mathematics lessons support student learning in each of the areas determined by the U.S. Department of Education identified to be critical in research-based math programs:
• Understanding mathematics
• Computing fluently
• Applying concepts to solving problems
• Reasoning logically
• Engaging with mathematics by seeing it as sensible, reasonable and do-able.
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| Evidence of Effectiveness (written by provider) |
Since its inception in February, 2008, The Learning Curve has students in individual and small group (less than eight students) tutorial sessions with the goal of supporting students who are not experiencing academic success within the formal school day. These students have been identified as in need of services through a variety of data sources offered by parents, teachers and/or district personnel. This data includes progress reports, report cards, teacher’s anecdotal records, MCAS, DIBELS and GRADE results and end-of-term benchmark testing implemented by local districts in English/Language Arts and Math.
During our first year, we monitored student tutorial sessions with a self-created “Focus Sheet” which required tutors to record the topic addressed during the session, along with a summary of strategies/performance tasks completed and an informal assessment of the student’s progress. This information is reported orally to parents at the conclusion of each session, entered into the child’s data folder by the Director and a copy is given to the parent at the end of each six week session. This information is combined with ongoing parent and tutor input, along with teacher input regarding improved classroom performance and/or increase in student confidence and interim benchmark testing results to determine the next steps for services provided
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| District(s) Served |
Please note that these are the districts this provider is approved to serve through this contract. Not all of these districts may be required to offer supplemental educational services through Title I of the No Child Left Behind Act. Check with your school or district for more details.
| Clinton Public Schools | Fitchburg Public Schools | Gardner Public Schools |
| Leominster Public Schools | Lunenburg Public Schools | Nashoba |
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