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Service Summary

Name	UCLA School Management Program Partners for School Success
Contact information	Terri Towle After School Specialist Partners for Student Success 40 Lindeman Court, Suite 200 Trumbull, CT 06611 203-365-8914 ttowle@smp.gseis.ucla.edu
Subject are and grades served	Reading K-12 Math K-12
Location of tutoring	School, Community center
Tutoring available to diverse populations	Students from high poverty schools Minority students Migrant students Special education students Limited English proficient students
Time when tutoring delivered	Before school After school Weekends Summer
If tutoring is not in the student’s home, is there transportation provided, and if yes, is there a separate fee? (Note: Districts are not required to provide or pay for transportation)	Transportation not provided
Mode of instructional delivery	Individual tutoring, small group instruction
Length of tutoring session	30-60 minutes as developmentally appropriate
Number of tutoring sessions per week	2
Student/Instructor ratio	6/1 or 1/1
Service area	Statewide

Description of Program – written by UCLA School Management Program

UCLA School Management Program’s SES program, Partners for Student Success (PASS), guides students to increase academic performance and become independent learners. PASS works with school and school districts to make sure school teaching and tutoring are consistent – our tutors know what math program, writing program or reading program your daughter or son is already using at school. PASS also works with students to prepare them for future academic success by teaching independent and inquiry based learning skills, so that the tutoring is a springboard to help your child move forward.

Through one on one instruction or small group learning – whichever is best for your child – students get the extra help they need to become confident learners. We use classroom grades, statewide tests and other assessments tools to identify each student’s needs and create a plan, in partnership with teachers, after school providers and parents, to help each child achieve success. Our consistent approach based on inquiry means that we require tutors to constantly work with classroom teachers to understand the standards being addressed, as well as how your child is doing during the school day.

The tutors working in our programs are supervised by a certified teacher based at your child’s school. They create lesson plans and strategies to improve your child’s access to high quality academic assistance. All tutors have college degrees and all aides have college experience, too. All staff, from the coordinator to the instructional aide, has access to UCLA SMP training opportunities so they will continue to be highly qualified and provide a consistently well developed program.

UCLA SMP is an organization devoted to standards-based learning and uses the identified standards in each school, for each child, to guide both our instruction and assessment. We provide services in places already familiar to you – your school, your community center or other local sites. We access technology where it is available and use computer software supplied by the same people who create the math and literacy programs your child uses each day. Many of the materials used are connected to your child’s current math, reading and writing programs, so there is no need for additional materials.

The best part of PASS is that we mean it – we want to be Partners in each student’s success. We strive to create meaningful connections and partnerships with parents and families through notes, meetings, and phone calls; with school and after school staff through meetings, notes, data sharing, and emails and with the student by creating a plan that meets their goals, too. We’ll use all this information to evaluate our own performance, too, to make sure we are meeting the needs of your child.