Palmer High Tutoring Center
The hours of operations are Monday-Friday during regular class hours. Open to everyone. After school math tutoring by various math teachers, Tuesdays and Thursdays 3:15-4:15 Writing center manned by various English teachers, Thursday after school 3:15-4:15.
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Palmer Tutoring Center Mission Statement
The Tutoring Center is here to help you reach your goals, to encourage your independent learning, and to increase your confidence by offering the specific help you need when you need it. We are here as your advocates and to support your efforts
Palmer Tutoring Center Staff Mission Statement
We will create a friendly, helpful environment designed to foster student
success. Through quality supplemental assistance based on classroom data
and progress monitoring the tutoring center will increase student achievement.
Our Target Goals
- Relationship building
- Communicate with stakeholder
- Provide resources for teachers for interventions
- Evaluate integrity and fidelity of interventions in classrooms and tutoring center
- Ongoing training and evaluation of Peer Coaches
- Coordinate with PLC groups (math and English to start, expanding later to more departments)
- Coordinate with SPED, ESL, Regular Ed, GT programs to offer continuum of intervention strategies
- Monitor progress (celebrate success, remediate deficiencies)
- Gather Data on efficacy of tutoring center (How will we measure our
success?)
- Successmaker
- D/F reports
- Dropout rates
- Gap analysis
- Short Cycle Curriculum Based Measures (CBM)
- Quantity of Usage (number served at center) and resulting gains
- Surveys, Plus/Deltas from all stakeholders
- CSAP score analysis
- MAPS and AIMSWeb Data
- Attendance Rates