• The Tutor End of Semester (EOS) Survey is now live.  The purpose of the survey is to gather information about tutor perceptions of satisfaction, effectiveness and impact to inform our programmatic strategy and decision making.  The EOS survey due date and link can be found in the action items section.

• We are still finishing up the 3rd/final observations of the semester, but overall, the tutor cohort for this spring has exceeded our instructional competency goals for planning, instruction, and learning environment.  This is a direct result of the growth you’ve all shown by implementing feedback from coaching and development sessions, as well as collaborating with your teachers and coordinators. Thank you for all of the amazing work you do supporting students!

• Shout out to all tutors for exceeding our goals last week in the areas of on-time clock-ins, shifts served, and tutors submitting the number of DDTs aligned with their schedules!

• Shout out to Edith Carrillo, Daniela Leal Medina, Marina Ly, Joselyn Aguilar, and Juliana Barrera for proactively messaging Slack General Support, using the message template provided in the Action Items section, to provide an explanation for their “Other” selection in their DDT as the reason for not holding a scheduled small group.

• As a reminder, we will continue to focus on increasing our progress to goal for the percentage of DDTs in which tutors indicate they held a scheduled small group.  If you cannot hold a scheduled small group, ensure you accurately record the reason why in your DDT submission for that group.  If you select “Other” as the reason for not holding a scheduled small group, message General Support.  See Action Items for details.

• As a reminder, your support of prioritized students in all parts of the lesson cycle during whole group instruction counts as minutes of tutoring to submit in your DDTs.  
• For example, if you support your prioritized students in the introduction to new material, guided practice, and independent practice portion of the lesson, all of those lesson parts count.  You would enter the total minutes of all of that support in one DDT.  If the time you are with the small group in class exceeds the maximum option of 90 minutes, input 90 minutes.
• The only time you would not enter minutes of support in a DDT is if you are just circulating in class not supporting a group of students for longer than 15 minutes or if the class was not held that day (i.e., field trip, assembly).  
• If you have any questions about how to record your minutes during whole group instruction in a DDT, reach out to your manager.

• The Tutor Interest and Demographic Survey for the fall 2025 semester will be sent out next week.  Monitor your email and submit the survey by the stated deadline.

• iEducate tutors are invited to participate in an exclusive Student Transfer Event for aspiring teachers. This virtual event is designed specifically for those in a community college program who are considering completing a bachelor’s degree in teaching and learning.  The event will be a great opportunity to ask questions and explore the next steps to complete a bachelor’s degree and become a certified teacher.  Here is a flyer with QR codes for event sign up.  

• If you are currently enrolled in an educator preparation program or applied to and were accepted into an educator program, you are eligible to apply for the iEducate/Teach for Houston scholarship. This scholarship will only go to an iEducate tutor this semester, thus, there is a high likelihood if you apply you can win this scholarship. The scholarship is $1500 and the deadline to apply is May 31. You can apply for the scholarship using this link: https://ontch.org/ieducatescholarship. When you click on apply, be sure you select the pre-teaching/iEducate scholarship as the scholarship you’re applying for. For more information about this scholarship, check out this flyer: iEducate & Teach for Houston Scholarship Flyer – Spring 2025.pdf

Teach for Houston is offering $300 in reimbursements for the cost of registering to take teacher certification exams. If you’re in an educator preparation program and you are planning to take your certification exams, apply here to get up to $300 reimbursed for these costs: https://houston.teach.org/services/test-fee-reimbursements?utm_source=lea-share-all-&utm_medium=flyer&utm_campaign=toolkit&utm_content=fee-reimburesement