A model for high dosage math tutoring employing nearly 1,000 college and graduate students has taken root across Maryland, converting some into lifelong educators and providing middle schoolers with diverse mentors.
Now in its first full academic year, the Maryland Tutoring Corps is bringing hundreds of students from Morgan State, Johns Hopkins, Towson, University of Maryland Baltimore County, and Salisbury into the lives of middle schoolers in Wicomico, Baltimore City and County public schools.
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“When you have 35 to 40 kids in a class and a lot of them need extra help, you as a teacher, you can’t get to everybody every day,” said Matt Barrow, Baltimore City Schools’ director of differentiated learning.
Schools across the country are finding ways to scale up their tutoring offerings to help get kids back on track. For Barrow, the impact has felt immediate and positive.
“…To see joy on kids’ faces when they’re doing math – they’re middle schoolers!,” he said. “It makes me reflect back to when I was in the classroom, wishing that the kids I had at the time had that type of opportunity for support consistently, not even just in math.”