Research on intelligent tutoring systems has not leveraged general models of collaborative discourse, even though tutoring
is inherently collaborative. Similarly, research on collaborative discourse theory has rarely addressed tutorial issues, even
though teaching and learning are important components of collaboration. We help bridge the gap between these two related research
threads by presenting a tutorial agent, called Paco, that we built using a domain-independent collaboration manager, called
Collagen. Our primary contribution is to show how a variety of tutorial behaviors can be expressed as rules for generating
candidate discourse acts in the framework of collaborative discourse theory.