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Frequently Asked Questions

Why partner with TutorSmart?

Across the Greater Toledo area, schools and tutoring organizations are logging countless hours of hard work trying to help struggling students reach grade level. Resources of time, energy, passion, and money are being dedicated to this urgent need. And the need is more clear than ever. So are some of the key ingredients of the solution: high-dosage, high-quality tutoring that is data-driven, that continuously improves its effectiveness, and that can demonstrate results empirically. The funding streams of major grants and government monies are increasingly shifting to require these measures from tutoring organizations and school intervention programs, so that clear “return on investment” can be shown; but many of these tutoring providers are struggling to find a way forward in implementing these elements in a systemic, sustainable fashion. They don’t have the capacity to reinvent the wheel. But thankfully, they don’t need to – TutorSmart can help them.
 

As a tutoring support organization, TutorSmart comes alongside schools and other tutoring providers to help transform their programs into high-dosage, high-quality, data-driven tutoring with measurable results that can not only improve their efficacy in getting kids on grade level, but will also strengthen the providers’ position in pursuing funding from the government, grant streams, and donors – because the providers’ academic impact will be demonstrable.

What do you mean by Zero-Dollar Exchange?

When TutorSmart partners with schools, we do so with a “zero dollar exchange”; this means that while the school still has its own part in the lift (cost to pay their teachers/staff, etc), TutorSmart takes on additional fundraising responsibilities to cover our own part – without charging the school anything. No money is changing hands. And when partnering with tutor provider organizations, TutorSmart adopts an “inverted” pricing model that keeps any costs as low as possible, and that incentivizes full adoption of the TutorSmart model by making that “premium” partnership a “zero dollar exchange” as well.

What grade levels does TutorSmart support?

TutorSmart has 2 variations on our framework model of support: KinderSmart which supports kindergarten and first grade tutoring and TutorSmart which supports tutoring in second through eighth grades.

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