Tutoring is intense. One of the major benefits of high-impact tutoring is that it is intensive, with regular meetings and in very small groups. Most of our work at Community TEACH is done in one-on-one situations that are powerful precisely because of presence. Both the tutor and student are there together, in the thinking and the learning, each and every second of a session. Tutoring also tends to be cyclical and moments of transition bring a lot of emotion. Over the last few months I've said goodbye or put on pause a set of students as the school year wrapped up, worked with an almost entirely new batch of students during the summer, and now I'm getting up to speed with students in the new school year, many of whom are new to me. Tutoring follows the rhythm of the school year and its goodbyes, hellos, and pauses. Yet the depth and continuity of the relationships with tutors are often at another level compared to school-based educators. Tutoring is less strictly rule bound ...