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For Little Scholastics · September 2026
Answers to your four questions.
What we offer, how it works, and what we do not have yet.
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Your questions, our answers
Your four questions.
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Can we use our own tutors and teachers?
Yes. You can set it so your tutors only ever see your students, and your students are only ever offered your tutors. Your tutors still go through our vetting before they start.
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Is the platform and curriculum easy to follow?
We're a bit biased but we think so! Always stuff to improve, but overall, tutors are enjoying our content. Math from Kindergarten through Algebra 1, an early reading program, reading by grade level, and writing.
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Is there ongoing training for tutors?
The short answer is no. There's no ongoing training program. There's onboarding before a tutor starts, and after that we're trying to build our content and our site so that it's easy enough for any tutor to jump in and do it.
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Are there assessments, and can we see progress?
The assessments exist and run today. The organization-wide progress dashboard for you does not yet.
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About us
Learn To Be in numbers.
We have been running one-on-one tutoring since 2008. Here is the scale we work at today.
483,000
Hours of tutoring delivered, all time
539,000
Tutoring sessions, all time
666
Partner organizations
2,476
Tutors who taught in the last 90 days
112,705
Hours in the last 12 months
Pulled from our platform database on September 15, 2026. The average session runs 53 minutes.
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Before we start
How a partnership starts.
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We set your account up
There is no application form to fill out. Just say the word and we will create it for you.
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We sign a short memorandum of understanding
If your organization has its own version, we will read it.
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You name one owner admin, and as many other admins as you want
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You share your links and start enrolling
We would suggest starting with a handful of pairings for a month before scaling up.
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Question one
Using your own tutors.
Yes. Here is how a tutor you bring gets set up, and the one step in that process that sits with us.
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Getting your tutors set up
How a tutor joins your program.
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You get a private sign-up link
One for tutors and one for families. Your name and logo appear on the page. We also give you printable flyers with your own QR code, in English and Spanish.
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Your tutors apply through it
A short single-page form, not the longer one our walk-in volunteers fill out. We can add a short video introduction step if you want one.
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We review and approve them
Background screening questions, a truthfulness certification, and agreement to our code of conduct and recording policy. This usually takes 5 to 7 business days.
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They appear in your portal
You can see them, edit their details, reset a password, and make one of them an admin alongside you.
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You pair them with your students
You make the match from the portal, or let tutors choose from your own student list.
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One thing to know
We approve tutors, not you.
Every adult who works with a child on our platform goes through our review, including the tutors you bring. Your admins cannot see or approve a pending application, so there is a step in the middle of your onboarding that sits with us. This is a child safety requirement and we do not make exceptions to it.
In practice, allow about a week between a tutor applying and that tutor starting. If you are onboarding a group at once, let us know and we will process them together.
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Question two
The platform and the curriculum.
What a tutor does in a session, and what content is there to teach from.
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The tutor experience
What a session looks like.
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The session is scheduled in the platform and both sides get reminders
Video runs through Zoom or Google Meet. The tutor does not set up a meeting, share a link, or chase anyone.
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The platform shows what to work on next
Every student has a place in the course. The system picks the next lesson from what the child has shown they know and what is due to come back around.
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The tutor runs the lesson and shares their screen
Every lesson opens with a worked example showing the full solution step by step, then practice built to look like it. 11,726 of those examples are published, so a tutor who is rusty on long division has the method in front of them.
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Hours are logged automatically and the session gets a short summary
There is no timesheet. Sessions are verified automatically, and families get a plain-English recap of what their child worked on.
How this works today: the tutor drives the lesson in their own browser and shares their screen over Zoom or Meet. They get a pen, colors and a laser pointer to draw on top of any problem. A shared classroom where the child's own screen follows along is built and in testing, not released.
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The curriculum
What is built and in use today.
Reading, Kindergarten to Grade 7
2,023 lessons · 12,250 problems
Math, Kindergarten to Algebra 1
1,548 lessons · 30,860 problems
Writing and spelling, K to Grade 7
450 lessons · 4,682 problems
48,163 practice problems published
2.5 million student answers recorded
1,743 of the reading lessons are a systematic phonics program
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Lesson structure
Every lesson has the same four parts.
Because the shape does not change between courses, a tutor who has run one lesson has effectively run all of them.
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One small idea at a time
Not a chapter. A single idea, written in plain language the tutor can read out loud.
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A worked example
The full solution, step by step, so the child sees the whole process before trying it.
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Practice that looks like the example
Same shape, different numbers. We do not teach addition and then hand over a three-step word problem.
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The child answers on screen and the screen checks it
Right or wrong comes back immediately. Where a child gets stuck is the information the tutor needs.
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Question three
Training your tutors.
There's onboarding before a tutor starts. After that there's no ongoing training program, so the effort goes into making the content easy enough to run without one.
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Before the first session
Training before a tutor starts.
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A live onboarding session run by our staff
About an hour on Zoom, covering what we do, who the children are, how to run a first session, the code of conduct, and mandated reporting. Experienced tutors join to answer questions. Our standard partnership agreement includes a dedicated recorded session each year for your tutors, and a separate one for your admins.
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A 19-lesson self-paced course inside the platform
Six parts: welcome and expectations, code of conduct and student safety, setting up an account and passing a knowledge check, the weekly rhythm from finding a student through to logging hours, prep time and when to end a pairing, then a first week. Your tutors take it in the same tool your students learn in.
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A first-session walkthrough
A guided script for the first meeting with a child, which is the session new tutors ask about most.
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How we train tutors to teach
Give the child room to get it wrong.
The most common mistake we see in new tutors is rescuing. They explain for fifteen minutes, then walk the child to the right answer one word at a time. The child ends the session having got everything right and having learned very little.
We train the opposite. Hold back and give them room to try. A wrong answer tells you which specific piece is missing, and that is the thing you can then teach. Reteach that piece, do another example, and let them try again.
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Question four
Assessments and progress.
What we assess, how we decide a child knows something, and what you can see.
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Placement
Finding a child's real starting level.
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A phonics placement test, run by the tutor
The child reads words out loud and the tutor taps correct or wrong. It works up through short vowels, digraphs, blends, silent-e and vowel teams, and stops when the child reaches their limit. It names the exact lesson to start on, and marks everything before it as already known so nobody sits through work they can already do.
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A reading fluency test the computer scores
The child reads a passage out loud into the browser. We record it, transcribe it, and compare it word by word, then move up or down grade levels until we land on their reading level. You get words per minute, error rate, the specific words they stumbled on, and the recording.
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Timed fluency checks in math
Correct answers inside a time limit. A child still counting on their fingers has no attention left for the actual problem.
2,000 reading assessments have run on the platform since May 2026, the most recent one yesterday.
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How we measure learning
What we count as knowing something.
Most platforms count a lesson as done when the child clicks through it. We do not. Every lesson a child practices gets a memory estimate, which is how many days we think they could go before forgetting it.
Once that estimate passes three weeks, we count the lesson as mastered. Until then the lesson keeps coming back on a widening schedule, and how well the child did last time decides how soon it returns.
So progress here means retained, not attended.
21Days of memory before we count it mastered
- The four states are not started, learning, review, and mastered
- A mastered lesson still comes back for a check
- The child and the tutor see the same map of which lessons are which
- 13.4 million of these memory records exist across our students today
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Your admin portal
What you can see from day one.
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Every student you enrolled
Whether they activated their account, whether they have a tutor, how many sessions they have had, and the date of the last one. Downloadable as a spreadsheet.
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Every tutor you brought, and who they are paired with
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Every session
Date, length, who attended, the subject, the tutor's notes, and both ratings. Attendance is checked automatically, so a session only counts if it really happened.
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An insights dashboard
Your hours and enrollment over time, charted, showing only your organization.
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Families get a weekly progress email
Problems solved, accuracy, days practiced, and which lessons are due for review, in English or Spanish. Plus a short recap after each session describing what their child worked on.