How One District Is Using Tutoring to Solve Teacher Retention Challenges

Presented by Tina Powell, Ed.D., Assistant Superintendent of Innovation & Systems, Orange Public Schools (NJ); and Brian Galvin, Chief Academic Officer, Varsity Tutors

Sponsored by Varsity Tutors

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In the last two years, tutoring has emerged as an important tool in a superintendent’s kit to help students make up for lost instructional time. What has also emerged is the ability of tutoring to support the teaching profession and tackle turnover rates. Increasingly, districts are creatively using tutoring services to ease the burden on educators and empower them with an extra set of hands.

Watch this edLeader Panel to hear from education experts and district leaders on how tutoring does not just help students catch up, but supports the heart and soul of schools: teachers. This event showcases how district leaders from Orange Public Schools in New Jersey are innovatively leveraging tutoring services to alleviate the workload on teachers while supporting students with standards-aligned personalized instruction during the school day.

This recorded edLeader Panel is of interest to K-12 school and district leaders and education technology leaders.

About the Presenters

Since 2021, Tina Powell, Ed.D. has been the Assistant Superintendent of Innovation and Systems at Orange Public Schools in New Jersey, where she focuses on finding the natural connections between instructional and non-instructional priorities in order to help schools see where they can improve the systems that serve students and teachers daily. She previously served as the Director of Mathematics at The Newark Public Schools before spending seven years as the Director of Mathematics, Science, and STEM-focused Learning in Orange Public Schools, where she was recognized for opening the district’s first STEM High School and largely guiding her district in raising state-assessment performance from 19.2% proficiency to 29.4% proficiency in just three years.

Brian Galvin is the chief academic officer for Varsity Tutors, the nation’s largest live learning platform. A lifelong educator with a master’s degree in education from the University of Michigan, he has taught thousands of students, trained hundreds of instructors, and authored dozens of lesson books. At Varsity Tutors, he oversees the development of live academic and enrichment classes, adaptive assessments, and on-demand learning programs. He is also creator and host of the company’s StarCourse lessons–taught with astronauts, Olympians, TV hosts, and other distinguished teachers–and Test Prep 4 All series. His educational videos have over three million views on YouTube.

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