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Every child deserves a tutor who has all afternoon.

A patient voice that works through one problem at a time with your child, never hands over the answer, and is never once told their marks. Afterwards you read exactly what happened.

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What happened · 14 March

  1. 00:41Started on fractions of a whole
  2. 04:12Maya drew four equal pieces
  3. 09:38Moved to comparing halves and quarters
  4. 16:02Got stuck, went back to the board

How it talks

It asks the question,
not the answer.

Short sentences. One question at a time, and then it waits. Silence is a child thinking, not a cue to talk more. Praise goes to what they actually did, not to how clever they are.

If they cannot make themselves understood twice in a row, it stops asking them to repeat and invites them to write on the board instead. Asking a third time is how a child decides they are bad at this.

Tutor
You wrote 3 over 4. What does the bottom number tell us?
Maya
how many pieces there are?
Tutor
Yes. Draw me four pieces on the board.

Shared whiteboard

3/4

What you get to see

It is never told
your child's marks.

Not instructed to avoid them. Never told. The tutor is given which standards to practise and never how your child was rated on them, so there is no number in the room to let slip.

We also scan every session for the things a tutor must never say, and tell you when one slips through. We would rather you heard it from us than from your child.

What happened · 14 March

  1. 00:41Started on fractions of a whole
  2. 04:12Maya drew four equal pieces
  3. 09:38Moved to comparing halves and quarters
  4. 16:02Got stuck, went back to the board

This session was flaggedThe tutor compared your child to others. Please review the transcript.

What we will not build

  • No GPA, and no averaging of marks.
  • No ranking, and no comparison to other children.
  • No trendline drawn through a child's marks.
  • No clinical language. We describe the work, never your child.

The report card

And it reads the card
the district actually sent.

SFUSD marks describe progress toward end-of-year expectations, not a grade for the trimester. A 2 in November is not a bad grade. It is the path.

June target
T1
T2
T3
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