The evidence is clear.High-impact tutoring works.
Sierra TMS is how districtsmake it work.
Sierra TMS is the AI-powered operating system for high-impact tutoring — scheduling, dosage tracking, session delivery, compliance reporting, and program intelligence in one platform. Built so districts can stop managing tools and start running programs.
See how district programs use Sierra TMS to run high-dosage tutoring at scale — from scheduling and attendance to AI-powered coaching and one-click compliance reporting.
Program fidelity breaks downwhen your ops can't keep up.
The evidence on high-dosage tutoring is unambiguous — frequency, small group size, and session quality drive outcomes. Most programs stall not because the model fails, but because the tools running it weren't built for it. Here's where the gap shows up.
Six tools, zero integration
Scheduling in one place, attendance in another, payroll in a spreadsheet. Nobody knows which is the source of truth — and auditors notice.
You can't prove dosage
Your grant requires 30 sessions per student. You think most are close. But pulling that report takes an hour — which means you're flying blind every cycle.
Scaling means more headcount
Going from 200 students to 2,000 shouldn't require 10× the admin. But on manual tools, it does. The ops don't scale — they collapse.
Zoom is a liability in K-12
A student alone with a tutor on a consumer video call — no recording controls, no safeguarding monitoring, no waiting room enforcement. That's a policy problem waiting to happen.
You don't know which tutors work
You're paying every tutor the same rate. Some are excellent. Some aren't. Without session-level data, you're guessing — and your outcomes reflect that.
Grant reporting takes days
Your coordinator spends the last week of each quarter pulling data into Excel, formatting it for funders, and hoping the numbers match. That's two program days gone.
One OS. Every layeryour program runs on.
Most districts run their tutoring program across five or six disconnected tools. Sierra replaces all of them — a single AI-powered operating system covering operations, instruction, and governance. Every decision made from the same data. Every session connected to outcomes.
Operations
Rosters, tutor profiles, scheduling, attendance, and payroll data — one place, kept in sync automatically.
- Roster sync from your SIS (Clever, ClassLink, LTI)
- Intelligent tutor-student matching by subject, grade, language
- Automated attendance tracking and dosage alerts
- Payroll data export — no manual entry
Instruction
A virtual classroom built for tutoring — not repurposed conferencing. Your tutors teach in an environment designed for their work.
- Built-in classroom, whiteboard, breakout rooms
- Session recording with student video privacy controls
- Runs on Chromebooks and constrained school networks
- Curriculum standardization across all tutors
Governance
One-click compliance reports. Immutable audit trails. Safeguarding alerts. Everything your district, funder, and auditor will ask for.
- Dosage and attendance reports on demand
- FERPA, COPPA, GDPR, SOC 2 ready
- Real-time safeguarding monitoring and alerts
- API export to your district data warehouse
Your coordinator shouldn't spendTuesday matching students to tutors.
Describe your matching criteria once — subject, grade, language, availability, group size. Sierra handles assignments automatically. When a tutor cancels, the substitute workflow fires without coordinator involvement.
- Rule-based matching by subject, grade, language, and availability
- Dosage alerts when students fall below session minimums
- Cancellation and substitute workflows without manual intervention
- Calendar sync for students, tutors, and site administrators
Students log in with the account they already have.
Connect Sierra to your SIS once. Rosters sync automatically as enrollments change mid-year. Students and staff use Clever, ClassLink, Google, Microsoft, or LTI — no new passwords, no helpdesk tickets.
- Automated roster sync that stays current as classes change
- SSO via Clever, ClassLink, Google, Microsoft, LTI
- Custom tags and metadata for filtering, reporting, and matching
- Import grades and benchmark data to close the feedback loop
A classroom built for tutoring.Not repurposed conferencing.
Zoom wasn't designed for a 1:1 tutoring session where the tutor needs to see a student's work, run a breakout group, record for coaching, and follow a district curriculum. Sierra was.
- Interactive whiteboard built into every session — no add-ons or plugins
- Breakout rooms that tutors control, not coordinators
- Session recording with student video privacy controls per district policy
- Runs on Chromebooks, iPads, tablets, and constrained school networks
High-dosage is the start. High-impact is the goal.
Ensure every minute of tutoring drives measurable student growth.
Session data that tells youexactly what to do next.
Not a dashboard to interpret. Sierra surfaces specific recommendations — which student to follow up with, which tutor needs coaching, which site is falling behind on dosage — before problems compound.
- Tutor effectiveness scores across your entire program, ranked
- Early dropout signals before students miss the minimum session count
- Ask plain-English questions about attendance, engagement, and outcomes
- Proactive weekly digest — so insights come to you, not the other way around
Built for K-12.Not retrofitted for it.
Most edtech platforms treat compliance as a feature. Sierra was built from the ground up for student data in K-12 settings — which means FERPA, COPPA, and safeguarding aren't checkboxes added at the end. They're in the architecture.
Safeguarding, not just logging
Sierra monitors live sessions for behavioral risks — self-harm references, inappropriate visuals — and alerts admins in real time using local-only detection that never transmits video externally.
Waiting rooms and role permissions
Define who can access each session before it opens. Set role-based permissions — what admins, tutors, and students see and do — at organization, site, or session level.
Audit trails your attorneys will thank you for
Every administrative action is logged immutably. Session recordings include student-video privacy controls. Everything an auditor or funder needs is exportable in one click.
What program leaders sayafter switching to Sierra.
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We looked at Pearl. We looked at Littera. What Sierra TMS offers that no one else does is a fully integrated system purpose-built from the ground up — the scheduling, the data, and the virtual classroom, all in one place, all built to the highest standards. Sierra TMS has been central to our transformation. The results speak for themselves.
People are so excited about Sierra TMS's ability to capture student and fellow attendance in an automated way. The built in Pencil Spaces classrooms deliver truly the most interactive student learning experience out there. Sierra TMS has been an outstanding partner consistently responsive to our unique needs. Sierra TMS has been revolutionary for us in our work with students, schools, and partners. 
Finally! It’s here, a tutoring management system designed by people who get it - who understand the power and necessity of high impact tutoring, and who have taken the time to hear the heart of tutoring providers and examine outcome data to design a system that marries innovation, technology, and best practice to achieve the goal of producing strong, academic achievement outcomes for youth. Congratulations!Sierra TMS has powered
100,000,000+ hoursof tutoring
See Sierra TMS in 20 minutes. We'll show you dosage tracking, scheduling, and a funder-ready compliance report — pulled from real program data.
