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Additional tutoring for elementary and middle school students, set out through Gov. Glenn Younkin’s All In Plan, has begun in area schools.
Funds were allocated through this plan earlier in the 2023-2024 school year, the majority of which were to be put toward a tutoring program for third through eighth grade students.
Schools across the state will be implementing tutoring programs for reading and math.
Currently, students in Buena Vista and Rockbridge are becoming familiar with an online learning platform called Zearn to assist them in math.
According to Tim Martino, Rockbridge assistant superintendent of instruction and administration, students have finished their first month on the platform, and administrators are beginning to work with their data.
“We are in the process of dissecting the data to see what kind of progress we are making toward our learning outcomes,” he told The News-Gazette.
“The feedback from our learners has been very positive at both the elementary and middle school levels,” he said.
Rockbridge County elementary students will spend 90 minutes a week on the program, in three 30-minute blocks, while middle school students who scored below a set threshold on last year’s math SOL test will participate every day.
This will take place within the district’s already designated intervention blocks.
All third- through eighth- graders in Buena Vista are participating in the program, which Buena Vista’s assistant superintendent of instruction, Dr. Gennifer Miller, said rolled out smoothly across three schools: Enderly Heights Elementary, Parry McCluer Middle School, and Parry Mc-Cluer High School (which houses the district’s eighth grade).
Buena Vista schools are also working this tutoring into the regular school day.
So far, Miller said, everything is “going fantastic”.
Lexington’s elementary tutoring started in mid-January, and is still beginning at the middle school.
