Focus areas
- Comprehension of grade-level text
- Reading fluency and accuracy
- Academic vocabulary and word parts
- Writing in response to text, using evidence
- Multisyllabic decoding for older readers with foundational gaps
Programs
Literacy and math tutoring, with the learning skills that make it last.
Two core high-impact tutoring programs and one short add-on. Each is supplemental support for students enrolled in NYC public schools, selected by their school, and delivered to the NYC HIT standards.
Who it’s for
Students your school identifies, close to grade level.
High-impact tutoring has the strongest effects for students who have specific skill gaps but can reach proficiency with consistent extra practice. In NYCPS’s MTSS framework these are Tier II students.
- Enrolled in an NYC public school that partners with us
- Grades 6–9 at launch, including students taking Algebra I. Ask us about other grades.
- Selected by the school using its own assessment data and teacher input
- Including multilingual learners and students with IEPs, when the school identifies tutoring as the right support
- No cost to families, ever. Services are contracted by schools.
Literacy HIT · Grades 6–9
Reading and writing at grade level.
Middle and high school texts get harder every year, and students without strong comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary fall further behind in every subject. Literacy tutoring builds those skills directly, using texts matched to what students are reading in class.
Alignment
Tutors work from the school’s ELA units and pacing. Texts are drawn from, or closely matched to, classroom texts so tutoring prepares students for the reading they will actually be assigned.
Writing practice follows the school’s own rubrics and routines for writing about text.
How progress is measured
A baseline diagnostic of skills and fluency, exit tickets every session, and oral reading fluency checks every two weeks.
At the end of the cycle, results on our measures are compared with your school’s benchmark assessment where available.
Math HIT · Grades 6–9
The middle-grades math that algebra depends on.
Middle school math is where small gaps turn into large ones. A student who never mastered fractions struggles with ratios, then with equations, then with Algebra I. Math tutoring finds the specific skill that is missing and builds fluency forward from there, while keeping pace with class.
Focus areas
- Number sense, fractions, and rational numbers
- Ratios, rates, and proportional reasoning
- Expressions, equations, and inequalities
- Functions and Algebra I readiness
- Algebra I support for students taking the course
Alignment
Tutors use the same problem types, models, and vocabulary as your math curriculum, including Illustrative Mathematics under NYC Solves where your school uses it.
Each week mixes support for the current unit with targeted work on the prerequisite skills that unit depends on.
How progress is measured
A baseline skills diagnostic, exit tickets every session, and a cumulative skill check every two weeks.
At the end of the cycle, results are compared with your school’s benchmark, such as the i-Ready Math diagnostic, where available.
Mental Arts · Built in, or as an add-on
Explicit instruction in how learning works.
Mental Arts teaches students the methods that learning science supports most strongly, and has them use those methods on their own coursework. It is included in every literacy and math cycle, and is also available as a standalone module.
Sessions 1–2
Knowing what you know
Why rereading feels effective but isn’t, and how to check real understanding before a test checks it for you.
Session 3
Notes that work
Turning class notes into questions to answer later, so the notes become a practice tool rather than a transcript.
Sessions 4–5
Retrieve, space, remember
Retrieval practice, a simple spaced-review schedule, and memory techniques for material that must be memorized.
Session 6
Practice deliberately
Finding the exact step that fails, practicing it with feedback, and mixing problem types to build lasting skill.
In core cycles: about ten minutes a week. As a module: six 30-minute sessions, same ratios, live.
The evidence →Scope
Supplemental support, and clear about it.
We are a tutoring provider that works with schools. Our role is to add consistent, high-dosage practice to the instruction students already receive.
We do not
- Enroll students, or operate as a school or school day
- Replace classroom instruction or credit-bearing courses
- Provide special education, SETSS, related services, or any service mandated on an IEP
- Replace intensive Tier III intervention delivered by certified teachers or specialists
- Offer self-paced software in place of a live tutor
- Charge families