Literacy and Math Support for Michigan Schools

Michigan’s 35p High-Impact Tutoring grant applications are open. Work with Catapult Learning to bring in person or virtual literacy and math tutoring to your students. Fifty years in, we know how to do this without adding to your team’s plate while delivering impactful results to your students.
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50 Years of Helping Students Move Forward

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Years of Experience

Section 35p High-Impact Tutoring Funding

Applications are Open, Let’s Work Together

Applications for Michigan’s $50 million Section 35p High-Impact Tutoring grant are due November 30, and time is running out. Catapult Learning builds competitive applications and handles all the heavy lifting.
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Recognized for Tutoring Excellence




Our tutoring model has been independently validated, not just internally reviewed. The same standards apply whether delivery is in-person, virtual, or hybrid.

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ESSA Tier 2 & 3 Validated

Our program meets ESSA Tier 2 and Tier 3 evidence standards, an independent benchmark for effectiveness in improving student outcomes.

NSSA Tutoring Program Design Badge

Our program earned Stanford’s NSSA Tutoring Program Design Badge for aligning with research-based standards like tutor quality, dosage, and data use.

MTSS Approach Featured in MASA

The Michigan Association of Superintendents & Administrators featured our approach to aligning high-impact tutoring with MiMTSS tiers in their eLeader publication.

Genuine Love of Reading

“In just 12 weeks, our K–1 students achieved an average DIBELS growth of 61 points, and the share of students performing at or above grade level on i-Ready jumped from 11% to 55%. But the impact goes far beyond the numbers: we’ve seen students grow in confidence, become more engaged, and discover a genuine love of reading.”

Joanne Wilson, Director of Curriculum and Instruction

Southbridge Public Schools, Massachusetts

Services Built Around Michigan Education Priorities

Whether your priority is literacy, multilingual learner support, intervention, or building your educators’ capacity, we shape our services around your schedule and staffing with your MTSS plan in mind.

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  • Accelerate Learning

    High-Impact Tutoring

    Short, frequent tutoring sessions, delivered by tutors who are actually trained and supported, that build real academic confidence, not just test-prep polish.

    Highlights:

    • Evidence-based focus on literacy and math 
    • Flexible delivery formats 
    • Highly trained, well-supported tutors
  • Language Development

    Multilingual Learner Support

    We help multilingual learners build real reading and language skills through small groups sized so kids actually get individual attention, not just a rotation through a room.

    Highlights:

    • Literacy and language development support
    • Small-group and individualized instruction
    • Progress monitoring and growth reporting
  • Three students smiling in Summer Journey t-shirts during outdoor program
    Keep Learning Moving

    Summer Programs

    Summer programs that keep kids from sliding backward with real academic instruction mixed with the kind of hands-on activities that make a kid actually want to show up.

    Highlights:

    • Academic instruction with enrichment
    • Multiple delivery options: in person, virtual, hybrid
    • Family engagement and student wellness supports
  • Empower Educators

    Professional Development

    We help teachers and leaders get better at the parts of the job that are hardest to learn on your own — instruction, leadership, behavior support, and staff well-being — with coaching that happens in the classroom, not just in a workshop.

    Highlights:

    • Job-embedded coaching 
    • Workshops and institutes 
    • PDNow online learning platform 
  • Middle school student smiling at desk during classroom writing activity
    Reimagine Resilience

    Mental Health and Life Skills

    Support for the stuff that gets in the way of learning before it even starts — behavior, attendance, a kid just not doing okay. Delivered at whatever tier a student actually needs, from a check-in to ongoing counseling.

    Highlights:

    • Tiered supports (Tiers 1, 2, and 3)
    • Coaching in classrooms, small groups, or individually
    • Counseling services and educator training

Partnering with Catapult Learning 

Catapult Learning helps districts build support plans that fit their goals, staffing capacity, schedules, and available funding. Our Michigan team works alongside district leaders from planning through implementation, helping schools launch support programs that are manageable, measurable, and built for long-term success.

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Align Services to Your Goals

We start with a needs assessment that aligns a support plan to your district priorities, student needs, and implementation goals.

Explore Funding Options

Our team helps you navigate funding sources that can support your program, including current opportunities like Michigan’s Section 35p high-impact tutoring grant.

Launch Your Program

Together, we’ll launch a solution that fits your schools, supports your staff, and helps students make meaningful progress.

Funding Pathways in Michigan

Most Michigan districts are stitching together funding from a few different sources to pay for this kind of work. We help you figure out which pathways actually fit your program, so the funding lines up with what you’re trying to do instead of the other way around.

The NexSys application is now open and closes November 30 at 5:00 p.m.

Michigan’s FY 2026-27 School Aid Budget created Section 35p, a new $50 million competitive grant for evidence-based high-impact tutoring. Catapult Learning holds the Stanford NSSA Tutoring Program Design Badge, a provider qualification under 35p, and we work with districts on the pieces that tend to slow applications down: identifying priority students, planning the application itself, and getting operational once funds are distributed.

Catapult Learning partners with districts to make the most of federal funding streams that support academic achievement, educator growth, and equitable access to learning. Our programs align with Title I tutoring and family engagement, Title II professional development, Title III supports for multilingual learners, and Title IV initiatives that promote safe, healthy, and well-rounded school environments.

Beginning in FY 2026-27, Michigan’s Section 22b includes a new weighted foundation allowance that combines former Section 31a At-Risk and Section 41 Bilingual Education funding, directing additional per-pupil dollars to economically disadvantaged students and English learners on top of the $10,300 target foundation allowance.

Michigan’s literacy priorities continue to evolve through state policy, dyslexia-related requirements, and local district plans. Catapult Learning can help districts review current opportunities and design support that connects to literacy goals, intervention needs, and implementation capacity.

The MDE K-12 Literacy and Dyslexia Law page includes Public Acts 146 and 147 resources, screening and progress monitoring assessment guidance, literacy instruction and materials resources, and related implementation tools. (Michigan.gov)

See High-Impact Tutoring in Action

Learn how our tutoring model helps students make measurable gains through structured, data-driven instruction. This short video brings the approach to life with real examples from classrooms. 

Turning Data into True Student Growth

In one large urban district, our high-impact tutoring program helped drive a 16% increase in students meeting math growth targets, alongside a 17% jump in attendance.

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Targeted Learning Support

“Catapult Learning is committed to our overall success and our students’ growth. We’ve seen that growth reflected in our state assessment scores and through our teachers’ individual observations.”

Dr. Nadira Jack, Chief School Administrator

Jersey City Global Charter School

Resources for District Leaders

Featured Resource: K-3 Students Outpaced Expected Literacy Growth

Massachusetts Early Literacy Impact Brief, SY25-26

In our Massachusetts K-3 partnerships this year, participating students gained up to 5.1 additional months of reading growth in a single school year, ahead of the expected pace. That held up across 700 students in 12 districts. At Southbridge Public Schools, the share of students reading at or above grade level rose from 11% to 55% in 12 weeks.

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Generating ROI for High-Impact Tutoring Webinar

Research shows that when implemented with fidelity, high-impact tutoring can generate months of additional learning within a single school year and meaningfully shift student trajectories.
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High-Impact Tutoring White Paper

This white paper shares evidence-based insights on High-Impact Tutoring, covering its principles, strategies, and results, and why frequent, small-group, data-driven tutoring supports struggling learners.
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The Human Element Webinar

Revisit our June webinar featuring an expert panel of education though leaders discussing how relationships drive outcomes in successful tutoring program implementations.
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FAQs

Catapult Learning supports Michigan schools and districts with high-impact tutoring, literacy and math intervention, multilingual learner academic support, MTSS-aligned services, summer and extended learning, professional learning, instructional coaching, and student well-being services.

Catapult Learning partners with schools and districts to provide tutoring, academic intervention, multilingual learner support, summer learning programs, professional development, and other student support services. Our goal is to help schools improve student outcomes, strengthen intervention efforts, and provide additional capacity for educators and school teams.

We help districts provide targeted literacy intervention for students who need additional support. Our work can align to district literacy goals, MTSS structures, assessment practices, and science of reading implementation priorities.

Yes. Catapult Learning can help districts expand academic and literacy support for multilingual learners while keeping services aligned to district instructional priorities. The goal is to strengthen student support without adding unnecessary burden to school teams.

We start with the structures your district already has in place. Then we help design intervention support around student data, schedules, staffing realities, school capacity, and progress monitoring expectations.

Many districts use federal, state, or local funds to support intervention, tutoring, multilingual learner services, professional learning, and student support. Eligibility depends on your district’s funding plans, allowable uses, and student needs. Our team can help review possible funding alignment with your district.

Yes, when it makes sense. In Michigan, ISDs often serve as connectors, conveners, and regional support partners. Catapult Learning can participate in ISD-hosted awareness sessions, lunch and learns, or regional conversations, while working directly with districts on service design and purchasing decisions.

We monitor student progress throughout implementation and provide reporting that helps district and school leaders see where students are growing, where support may need to adjust, and how services are contributing to district goals.

Our work is human-centered and implementation-focused. Students work with trained tutors and educators, and districts receive support with the operational pieces that often determine whether intervention succeeds: staffing, scheduling, consistency, progress monitoring, and communication.

Let’s Support Your District

Your district may already know which students need more support. The question is how to deliver that support consistently, without overloading the people already doing the work.
Catapult Learning can help you build a practical plan for literacy intervention, high-impact tutoring, multilingual learner support, MTSS-aligned services, and sustainable implementation.

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