Foundation Meeting Guide

Foundation Meeting Guide - Fall 2026

BASIC INFO

Tutor Name

Email Address

Once you submit your form, you will receive a copy of your responses to your email.

District

School

INTRODUCTIONS

Purpose: Learn more about one another.

Check off the item after it is discussed.

Tutor(s) share their name, what college they attend, how long they have been with iEducate, their major and schedule (days and times they are scheduled to work).

Ask: What is your name? What college(s) did you attend? Have you ever had an iEducate tutor before?

SCHOOL AND CLASSROOM CULTURE

Purpose: Learn about school/classroom culture, policies, and practices.

Ask: What are the most important rules and procedures for your class that I can help reinforce?

Ask: What are some of the positive behavior reinforcement strategies that I can help reinforce?

Ask: Do you have any guidance you’d like to share regarding how to build positive relationships and rapport with students?

Ask: Do you have any guidance related to appropriate ways of preventing and/or responding to behavior concerns? (e.g. de-escalation strategies etc.)

Ask: What other procedures or routines do you use that would it be good for me to know about? (e.g. where to turn in papers, how to line up, procedures for borrowing supplies, etc.)

SCHOOL AND CLASSROOM INSTRUCTION

Ask: Do you have any high leverage instructional strategies you’d like me to learn and implement? (e.g. scaffolding strategies, engagement strategies etc.) If so, what are they?

If not already covered in orientation, ask: What’s the best way for me to get lesson plans so that I can review them? Will the lesson plans include a formative assessment?
If not say: I will either save some of the practice problems as a formative assessment, come up with some objective-aligned questions on my own, or use a general formative assessment that was part of my training to make a mastery call.

Ask: Can we schedule a standing check in? If so, when will our standing check-in take place (e.g. every week on Tuesday at 8am etc.)?

Ask: If a PLC or grade level meeting takes place during my shift, would you like me to attend?

Ask: If I have questions or concerns – besides bringing them to our standing check-in – what’s the best way to bring those to your attention for your thought partnership and support?

FINAL THOUGHTS

If not already shared with you during orientation, ask: What is the school’s Safety Plan and what would I do in an emergency?

Ask: During Teacher Work Days/Testing, would you like to provide me with tasks or have me work autonomously?

Ask: Is there anything else that you wanted us to discuss today?

Contact Information