TN ALL Corps
To address learning loss from instructional gaps in the spring of 2020 and 2020-21 school year, the Tennessee Accelerating Literacy and Learning Corps (TN ALL Corps) was established under Tenn. Code Ann. § 49-6-1507. During the 2021-22 school year through summer 2024, Tennessee school district served more than 225,000 students using a high-dosage, low-ratio tutoring model. This effort was initially supported by ESSER grants benefitting 87 school districts and 5 community partners. The model was expanded to support students who have tutoring as part of a required promotion pathway in the 2022-23 school year, leveraging the state’s growing expertise in effective high-dosage, low-ratio tutoring.
TN ALL Corps Model
The TN ALL Corps tutoring model offers targeted instruction for 30-45 minutes 2-3 times per week in small groups. The content follows a Learning Acceleration approach, helping students access grade-level content by frontloading upcoming concepts, extending practice of grade-level content or revisiting skills and standards. By aligning content in tutoring with content in core classroom instruction, the model ensures instructional coherence and expands access to grade-level content.
- The TN ALL Corps Vision for High Quality Tutoring outlines the structure, format, and research-based best practices to implement high-dosage, low-ratio tutoring.
- The TN ALL Corps Tutoring Model summarizes the structure, including required and flexible structures that reflect the TN ALL Corps high-dosage, low-ratio tutoring model
- The Learning Acceleration Model outlines strategies for accelerating tutoring students to grade-level proficiency.
- The Asynchronous TN ALL Corps Tutoring Modules are designed to provide information and resources to school and district leaders charged with building impactful high-dosage, low- ratio tutoring programs. Throughout these modules, leaders will learn best practices and view district examples in the tutoring areas of student selection, staffing, and scheduling.
- Find additional resources and best practices for TN ALL Corps high-dosage, low-ratio tutoring on the TN ALL Corps Educator Resource page.
Information for Districts and Tutors
The department offers two TN ALL Corps Tutor Training courses to fulfil the requirement of tutors being certified to provide TN ALL Corps high-dosage, low-ratio tutoring.
- The Aspiring and Alternative Educator course, designed for non-licensed educators, consists of six asynchronous training modules covering everything from the basics of tutoring to academic best practices. It is more comprehensive and should take approximately 6-8 hours to complete.
- The Licensed Educator course, designed for licensed educators, focuses on best practices in tutoring. It consists of three asynchronous modules and should take approximately 2 hours to complete.
- The TN ALL Corps Professional Literacy Tutor Certificate course combines the Aspiring and Alternative Educator course with the Early Literacy Reading 360 training and results in the TN ALL Corps Professional Literacy Tutor Certificate, a valued CTE credential. Learn more about this certificate here.
- Resources and Strategies from the TN ALL Corps Tutor Training Course offers open access to the videos, sample lessons and materials from the TN ALL Corps Tutor Training course. These materials are intended to be used as a refresher or resources for anyone that has already completed a training course. Accessing these materials will not result in a course certificate.
Resources for Grades 4 through 8
In partnership with Niswonger’s Project On Track, Bristol Tennessee City Schools developed the following resources for ELA support that fundamentally support access to grade level content in Tier I classroom instruction in grades 4 through 8.
- Find Resources from TN ALL Corps Convenings and Summits here.