Around 500 students at 12 elementary schools in Hamilton County will receive daily one-on-one literacy tutoring this year as part of an effort to close learning gaps early in the students’ education.
The high-dosage, low-ratio tutoring program focuses on phonics and will serve kindergarten students, as well as some first graders, at the elementary schools in the MidTown and Missionary Ridge learning communities. The goal is to prioritize kindergartners who are behind their peers when starting school to be proactive about literacy gaps.
The program is a gap prevention strategy, said Breckan Duckworth, Hamilton County Schools’ executive director of opportunity and gap closure.