New Working Group: Unlocking Apprenticeship Opportunities for Tutors

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Unlocking Apprenticeship Opportunities for Tutors

30 April 2025 | High-impact tutoring is a proven model for accelerating student learning, and increasingly, these programs are being designed as career-connected learning opportunities with long-term impact for both students and their tutors. As tutoring programs grow and evolve, there is a promising opportunity to align with state workforce systems and apprenticeship pathways, expanding the support and recognition available for this work.

As more tutoring programs seek to diversify their funding sources, there is a growing opportunity to tap into state workforce systems and apprenticeship funding resources that have historically not been leveraged for tutoring. This includes expanding programs to include pre-apprenticeship and Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs for high school students.

To help realize this potential, the Partnership for Student Success and the New Jersey Tutoring Corps are launching a working group, in collaboration with the National Student Support Accelerator and the Pathways Alliance, to develop National Guideline Standards (NGS) for registered tutor apprenticeship programs. These standards will not duplicate existing quality frameworks. Instead, they will focus on positioning effective tutoring models as quality workforce-aligned experiences that can align programs for apprenticeship funding and support state and local workforce boards in accelerating approval for programs that meet nationally recognized standards for quality.

This effort builds on:

New Jersey Tutoring Corps’ leadership as the first federally recognized registered tutor apprenticeship program.
National Student Support Accelerator’s research and subject matter expertise on high-impact tutoring, including the Tutoring Quality Improvement System.
Partnership for Student Success’ Voluntary Quality Standards.
Pathways Alliance’s experience developing and securing U.S. Department of Labor recognition for National Guideline Standards in other education professions.

Together, we are working to ensure that tutoring is not only an effective intervention for K-12 students, but also a meaningful entry point into careers in education and beyond.