High impact tutoring programs and high dosage tutoring with an AI tutor between sessions

Three sessions a week is the expensive part. The AI tutor covers the days between, coaches with questions instead of answers, and leaves your tutors a per-skill record of every session.

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01 The short answer

Where an AI tutor fits in a high impact tutoring program

High impact tutoring means at least three 30-minute sessions a week, groups of four or fewer, the same trained tutor and decisions driven by student data. An AI tutor does not replace that tutor. It adds practice time on the days between sessions and writes the data a tutor needs: Coeducate coaches each student through the program's own problems and records, per skill, which idea broke and in the student's own words.

Human tutoring runs about $1,200 to $2,500 per student a year. The School plan covers 10 tutors or teachers and 600 students for $3,480 a year, about $5.80 per student, so it sits inside the tutoring budget as a line item, not a second program.

At a glance

Role in the program: Dosage and data, not the tutor
Subjects: Math and reading comprehension
Material: Your program's own problems
Student help: Hints and questions, never the answer
Tutor output: Per-skill record, student words, next move
Published price: From $89 per month

02 The definition, element by element

Which high dosage tutoring elements software can carry

The definition below follows the National Student Support Accelerator and the DC OSSE high-dosage tutoring guidance. Half of it is staffing and scheduling, which no software does for you. The right column says which half we help with.

Element	The standard	Who carries it	What Coeducate does
Frequency	Three or more sessions a week, 30 minutes or more, for 10 weeks or longer	Your schedule	Adds coached practice on the days between tutor sessions
Group size	Four students or fewer per tutor	Your staffing	Lets the tutor work with one group while the rest practice with the AI tutor
Consistent tutor	The same trained tutor all term	Your staffing	Nothing. A relationship with a person is the part software cannot supply
During the school day	Scheduled in the day, not optional after school	Your schedule	Runs in any browser in the intervention block, no install
Curriculum alignment	Sessions follow what the class is learning	Your curriculum	Works on your own problems, so there is no separate content library to align
Data use	Tutors use student data to plan each session	Tutor and coordinator	Writes the per-skill record after every session, dated, with the student's words

Tutor reviewing a student's written working next to a laptop before a session

03 A week in the program

Five days of dosage with three days of tutor time

The tutor still meets the group three times a week. What changes is the other two days and the first five minutes of every session, which used to go on finding out where each student was.

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Monday, with the tutor

Group of four on the week's skill. The tutor teaches and checks.
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Tuesday, with the AI tutor

Students work the same problems. The AI tutor coaches with questions, never the answer.
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Wednesday, with the tutor

The tutor opens Tuesday's cards first and starts with the student whose idea broke.
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Thursday, with the AI tutor

Practice again on the corrected idea. The record shows whether it held.
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Friday, with the tutor

A short check. The coordinator sees dated per-skill evidence for every student.

04 What the research supports

Four ways to run tutoring, and what each one costs you

The evidence on AI in tutoring is newer and thinner than the evidence on human tutoring. The two studies worth knowing both keep a person in the loop.

Human tutoring only

The model behind the research base. Three or more sessions a week with a consistent tutor.

About $1,200 to $2,500 per student a year. Hard to staff at scale.

Hybrid human and AI tutoring

Students work on tutoring software while a human tutor supports them. A three-study evaluation by Thomas and colleagues (LAK 2024) in urban middle schools found higher skill proficiency and higher growth on MAP tests than software alone.

Fewer tutor hours per student. This is the model Coeducate is built for.

AI that coaches the tutor

The Tutor CoPilot randomized trial (Wang and colleagues, Stanford, 2024) gave 900 tutors real-time AI suggestions. Their 1,800 students were 4 percentage points more likely to master topics, 9 points for students of lower-rated tutors.

About $20 per tutor a year in the study. It improves tutors, it does not add dosage.

AI tutor alone

Useful practice, but it does not meet the definition: there is no consistent human tutor and no relationship.

Cheapest. Do not report it to a state as high impact tutoring.

Sources: Wang et al., Tutor CoPilot (arXiv 2410.03017, 2024); Thomas et al., Improving Student Learning with Hybrid Human-AI Tutoring (LAK 2024).

05 Data use

What the tutor reads before Wednesday's session

Most tutoring programs collect session logs: minutes attended, a smiley face, a line of notes. That proves dosage to the state. It does not tell the tutor what to do next. The card does: the idea that broke, the student's own words, and the question to open with.

For students who keep not responding, the same record feeds the decision meeting. The Tier 3 math intervention programs page shows how it supports that step, and MTSS progress monitoring software covers the Tier 2 documentation side.

Tutoring session card, grade 6, fractions

Fixed example

Diagnosis

Adds numerators and denominators straight across

The student wrote 1/2 + 1/3 = 2/5 and explained that you add the tops and add the bottoms. Asked whether 2/5 is more or less than 1/2, the student said less, then could not reconcile that with adding something to 1/2. Same move on all three items, so this is a concept gap, not a slip.

Next tutoring move / hint only

Is 1/2 + 1/3 more or less than 1/2 on its own? What does that tell you about 2/5?

Skill mastery read

Adding fractions, unlike denominators

Not yet

18%

Wrote 2/5 for 1/2 + 1/3 and said add the tops and the bottoms.

Comparing fractions

Developing

52%

Knew 2/5 is less than 1/2, but did not use it to check the sum.

Equivalent fractions

Developing

44%

Rewrote 1/2 as 3/6 when prompted, not on their own.

Explaining a step in words

Secure

76%

Stated the rule clearly, which is what made the error visible.

Teacher note

Start Wednesday with a size check before any procedure. More practice on the rule as written will harden the wrong rule.

Reteach in 5 minutes

A sum has to be bigger than each part

Shade 1/2 and 1/3 of the same bar and ask whether the total is past the halfway mark.
Rename both as sixths on the bar and add the pieces.
Give two sums and ask for an estimate before any computing.

06 Cost and funding

How much high impact tutoring costs per student

Stanford's National Student Support Accelerator tells districts to budget $1,200 to $2,500 per student a year, from Matthew Kraft's research. Tutor pay drives most of it: $15 to $20 an hour for novice tutors and $40 to $60 for experienced ones, then ratio, sessions per week, supervision and whether tutoring is in person or virtual.

150 students	Low estimate	High estimate
Human tutoring at the NSSA range	$180,000	$375,000
Coeducate School plan (up to 600 students)	$3,480	$3,480
Coeducate as a share of the tutoring budget	1.9%	0.9%

The software line does not shrink the tutor line by itself. Where it saves money is the hybrid model: if two of five weekly sessions run on the AI tutor with a tutor supervising, the program buys fewer tutor hours per student at the same dosage. Whether your state counts those days toward its tutoring requirement is a question for the state guidance, so ask before you plan around it.

After ESSER, FutureEd's funding primer lists Title I, Part A as the main source, with Title II for tutor training, Title IV, Title III for English learners and IDEA funds tied to IEPs. Louisiana funds tutoring at $30 million a year, Tennessee at $500 per fourth grader, and Arkansas used a federal grant on an AI-enabled tutoring program for rural elementary schools. If you are pricing other intervention software in the same budget, the research based math intervention programs list shows which ones carry an ESSA rating.

Tutoring program team reviewing student progress and budget at a meeting table

Published plans

Classroom: $888 a year, 1 tutor, 60 students
School: $3,480 a year, 10 tutors, 600 students
District: $1,290 a month, 75 tutors, 5,000 students, PO billing

07 Who it is for

High impact tutoring programs that use it

District tutoring coordinators

You have to show the state dosage and growth. The dated per-skill record is the growth evidence, session by session, without a tutor writing notes.

Tutoring providers and nonprofits

Your tutors change more often than you would like. The record carries over, so a new tutor starts from what the last session found instead of from zero.

Principals running an intervention block

One interventionist, twelve students, three groups. The AI tutor holds two groups in practice while the interventionist teaches the third.

For a program that runs online with remote tutors, the online tutoring platform for schools page covers sessions outside the classroom. The tutor coaching itself works the same way as on the AI math tutor for schools and in the reading comprehension intervention setting.

08 Questions

High impact tutoring questions districts ask

What is high-impact tutoring?

High-impact tutoring is small-group tutoring during the school day, at least three sessions a week of 30 minutes or more, in groups of four or fewer, with the same trained tutor, aligned to the curriculum and guided by data on each student. It is the tutoring model with the strongest research base, which is why states and districts fund it by name.

What is the difference between high-dosage tutoring and high-impact tutoring?

Mostly the name. High-dosage tutoring is the older term and stresses frequency, at least three sessions a week. High-impact tutoring is the term Stanford's National Student Support Accelerator and most states now use, and it adds the other conditions that make dosage work: a consistent tutor, small groups, curriculum alignment and regular use of student data.

How much does high-impact tutoring cost?

Districts should plan for about $1,200 to $2,500 per student per year, the range the National Student Support Accelerator gives from Matthew Kraft's research. The main drivers are tutor pay ($15 to $20 an hour for novice tutors, $40 to $60 for experienced ones), the student-to-tutor ratio, sessions per week and supervision. Daily one-to-one models run higher.

Can AI do high-impact tutoring?

Not on its own, by the standard definition, which requires a consistent human tutor. What the research supports is AI working with tutors: a hybrid model where one tutor oversees students on tutoring software, and AI that coaches tutors in real time. Coeducate fits the first role and adds the per-skill record that the data-use element asks for.

How many times a week is high-dosage tutoring?

At least three times a week, with sessions of at least 30 minutes, for at least 10 weeks. Daily sessions are common in the strongest programs. The National Student Support Accelerator warns districts not to cut below three 30 to 60 minute sessions a week to save money, because the effects shrink when dosage drops.

Is high-dosage tutoring effective?

Yes, when it is run as designed. Reviews of randomized trials find large average gains in math and reading, and a 2016 review of nearly 200 studies found significant effects when tutoring ran more than three days a week. Programs fall short when sessions are skipped, groups grow past four, tutors change often or nobody reads the session data.

How do you fund high-impact tutoring after ESSER?

Most districts now combine Title I, Part A with state tutoring money and smaller federal streams. FutureEd lists Title I, Title II for tutor training, Title IV, Title III for English learners and IDEA funds tied to IEPs. Several states fund tutoring directly, for example Louisiana at $30 million a year and Tennessee at $500 per fourth grader.

What is the best high-impact tutoring program for schools?

The best program is the one your district can staff at three sessions a week for every student who needs it. Human providers such as Reading Corps, Carnegie Learning and Catapult supply tutors. Coeducate supplies no tutors. It is the AI tutor and session record a program runs on, from $89 a month, so each tutor reaches more students and every session leaves evidence.

09 For the person who signs off

Two things a curriculum director asks first

Evidence you can present

Per-skill mastery per student, exportable, with the student's own reasoning attached. It survives a board slide and an MTSS meeting because the wording came from the student, not from a summary.

A privacy posture built for minors

Student work is not used to train models. No advertising, no data resale, deletable on request. Designed around FERPA and COPPA obligations, and our security page states plainly which formal attestations we do and do not hold.

Rollout, procurement and the full sign-off checklist are on the pricing page, alongside the cost-per-student estimator.

10 Pricing

Priced per program, not per seat

Annual billing is about 17% lower. There is no free tier, and the privacy posture is identical on every plan.

Classroom

$89/mo

One teacher, up to 60 students, CSV mastery export.

School

$349/mo

Up to 10 educators and 600 students, roles, SSO, scheduled reports.

District

$1,290/mo

Up to 75 educators and 5,000 students, standards mapping, SIS export, PO billing.

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