Chris Caputo, Author at K12 Tutoring

Partnership & Trust

What a True Tutoring Partnership Looks Like vs. a Vendor Relationship

Most districts have signed contracts with vendors who looked great in the proposal and disappeared by October. The deck was polished. The references checked out. The kickoff call went fine.…

Chris CaputoMarch 5, 2026

Funding & Compliance

Title I and Tutoring: What Districts Can and Can’t Do

Title I funding can pay for tutoring. Districts do it every year. But the compliance conditions that make it work are easy to get wrong, and the cost of getting…

Chris CaputoMarch 5, 2026

MTSS & Learning Recovery

How to Use Tutoring as Your Tier 2 and Tier 3 Intervention

The challenge for many districts isn’t tutoring itself. It’s how tutoring is placed within the MTSS framework. The tutoring is happening, but it isn't tethered to the MTSS framework: wrong…

Chris CaputoMarch 5, 2026

Scheduling & Implementation

5 Scheduling Models That Work for Tutoring in Middle School

Traditional after-school tutoring assumptions often break down in middle school schedules. You're working with blocked periods, team teaching structures, longer passing times, and far fewer natural intervention windows than elementary.…

Chris CaputoMarch 5, 2026

Certified Teachers

Certified Teachers vs. Gig Tutoring: What Districts Need to Know Before Signing

Budget pressure is real, and marketplace-based tutoring platforms cost less upfront. That's worth saying plainly, because any honest comparison has to start there.

Chris CaputoMarch 5, 2026

Funding & Compliance

Federal Funding Is Shifting: How to Build a Resilient Tutoring Budget

The ESSER window has closed. If your district built a tutoring program on pandemic-relief dollars, you already know what that means for this budget cycle, and the ones ahead. The…

Chris CaputoMarch 5, 2026

Chris Caputo

What a True Tutoring Partnership Looks Like vs. a Vendor Relationship

Title I and Tutoring: What Districts Can and Can’t Do

How to Use Tutoring as Your Tier 2 and Tier 3 Intervention

5 Scheduling Models That Work for Tutoring in Middle School

Certified Teachers vs. Gig Tutoring: What Districts Need to Know Before Signing

Federal Funding Is Shifting: How to Build a Resilient Tutoring Budget

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