The Revitalized Tutoring Center ─ A Guide to Transforming School Culture

Tapping into the existing resources and staff available within your school, The Revitalized Tutoring Center provides an effective strategy to improve instruction and student performance. This practical guide shares the blueprint, best practices, and resources necessary to create and implement a robust, embedded tutoring center. This dynamic peer tutoring model brings together teachers, peers, and community members in a strategic support network that identifies students in need and allows for individualized instruction. With a peer tutoring model in place, schools are better positioned to initiate and sustain a variety of initiatives such as PLCs, RTI, formative assessment, community partnerships, and service learning, and create equitable access and opportunity for all. This book illustrates how instructional leaders can leverage existing resources in a sustainable and cost-effective way to implement a systematic model that ultimately leads to school cultural changes, innovation, and significant academic improvement.

Jeremy Koselak is the RtI Coordinator and former Director of the tutoring center at an urban high school in Colorado Springs, and has worked extensively with at-risk high school students across all content areas.

Brad Lyall is Intervention Coordinator and has worked with at-risk high school students in a variety is settings in the field of mathematics.