Communicating With Your Child’s Tutor

Consistent and open communication between you and your child’s tutor is crucial to your child’s success. From reinforcing necessary habits established during tutoring sessions to keeping tutors in the loop about schoolwork, you need to be sure the lines of communication are open. Here are some of the best ways to ensure effective communication. 1. […]
Getting Your Child Excited About Tutoring

How you present the start of a new tutoring endeavor to your child can make or break his or her experience. Tutors have tons of tools for starting sessions off on a positive foot. However, a positive tutoring experience starts even before the first session. Here are some of the Do’s and Don’t’s of telling […]
Setting Expectations with Your Child’s Tutor

All teachers know that it’s important to set expectations with students. This is something most tutors do within the first session or two with a new student. Did you know it’s also important for you (and sometimes even your child) to set expectations for the tutor, too? After all, you are the client! And while […]
A Better Zoom Tutoring Session

Remote learning has a bad rap because so many students struggled in online classrooms last spring. However, a remote tutoring session is very different than a remote class. It is way easier to make for an effective, individualized learning experience while tutoring—it’s a conversation, not a class! Below you’ll find recommendations creating better online remote […]
Finding the Perfect Match: FAQ

You’ve made the decision to find a tutor for your child. Great! Now what? How do you know what to look for in a tutor? Beyond the obvious criteria like being qualified and good with kids, it’s daunting to wade through all of the options. We get it! That’s why we put together this comprehensive […]
Zoom, Revolutionized

Have you heard of Koala? No, we don’t mean the adorable, furry Australian native. Koala is a revolutionary video conferencing platform that merges gaming with virtual learning. It’s the first of its kind and we have already seen it completely turn around so many of our virtual tutoring students’ attitudes and motivation for learning. Here’s […]