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Interventionists, tutors and special educators

Reviewed November 2026 · 1 min read

Built for: A 30-minute group

  • Tutoring system: structure, accountability, data

    A 30-minute session structure, student accountability, weekly data tracking and decision rules for small-group tutoring.

    For interventionists, tutors, special educators, and the leaders who schedule them.

  • Playbook: small-group tutoring

    Six design rules from the trials, what a 30-minute session looks like, and a four-week launch plan for one school.

  • Playbook: fractions on the number line

    A whole-class fractions sequence for grades 3–5, common misconceptions and fixes, the tested intervention, and a four-week try-it plan.

Your main tool is the tutoring system: a fixed 30-minute structure, students held to it, and weekly data that changes what happens next. The tutoring and fractions playbooks go deeper.

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Last updated November 2026

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