New Jersey Tutoring Corps Hosts Forum “Implementing Tutoring As An Academic Intervention” At New Jersey Principals And Supervisors Association And Foundation For Educational Administration’s 5th Annual Effective Practices Statewide Summit

by    NJTC   

on    May 15, 2026

[Newark, New Jersey – May 14, 2026] New Jersey Tutoring Corps (NJTC) will join this year’s New Jersey Principals and Supervisors Association (NJPSA) and its professional learning division, the Foundation for Educational Administration’s (FEA) 5th Annual Effective Practices Statewide Summit by offering a panel discussion entitled, “Learn from Decision Makers: Implementing Tutoring as an Academic Intervention within the MTSS Model.” The session will provide New Jersey School and District administrators, teachers, interventionists, school counselors, child study teams, and other attendees with key best practices and operational assistance to establish, implement, and integrate high-impact tutoring into their MTSS interventions.

The panel discussion will take place during NJPSA/FEA’s Summit on Friday, May 15th at 11:15 am. Those scheduled to participate include Dr. Scott Oswald, Executive Director of Programs, NJTC; Carrie Thomas, Curriculum Director, Central Jersey College Prep; Dr. Gurkan Kose, Chief Academic Officer, iLearn; Dr. Nicole Dickens-Simon, Principal, Greenwood Elem School-Hamilton; and Anthony Scotto, Director of Strategic Growth & Partnerships.

The MTSS Summit brings together school and district leaders and educators from throughout the Garden State with national education researchers, New Jersey Department of Education officials, and NJPSA/FEA staff for a series of presentations, breakout sessions, and panel discussions to showcase key multi-tiered systems of support, effective academic and social-emotional wellness interventions at the elementary and secondary levels and the latest tools and resources available to schools and districts. To register for the full-day Summit, please visit HERE.

“NJTC is thrilled to join NJPSA/FEA, be part of their incredibly valuable annual MTSS Summit, create this amazing panel of tutoring experts, and share what we have implemented and learned with New Jersey’s school leaders,” stated NJTC President and CEO Katherine Bassett. “For the last three years, in partnership with the state and school districts throughout New Jersey, NJTC has served as the state’s focal point for high-impact tutoring and its advocacy, establishing tutoring operations in hundreds of communities across the Garden State. Together, we have shown firsthand the transformative power of high-impact tutoring. Our most recent, independently collected data shows that after just one year of high-impact tutoring, the percentage of scholars performing at grade level jumped by 15% in both math and literacy. The bottom line is that tutoring works and has proven to be the most effective tool we have to close the opportunity gap, especially for our most under-resourced scholars. Just a small investment in consistent, high-impact tutoring can be transformative, and we are committed to being a resource to every New Jersey school district and assisting any public school in exploring opportunities to swiftly and efficiently establish high-impact tutoring.”

Now in its third year of service since formally launching statewide as a nonprofit organization, NJTC has dramatically scaled its tutoring operations, growing from serving 500 New Jersey scholars in its first year to over 15,500 scholars across 247 locations statewide. Initially established as a needed corrective response to the state's dramatic learning gaps exacerbated by the pandemic, the organization has since evolved to become the focal point for implementing and advocating tutoring in public schools and community organizations throughout New Jersey and has been instrumental in partnering with school districts and public charter schools to establish and operationalize more tutoring throughout the state.