My Learning Springboard | Company Overview
The goal of this Blog is to inspire our readers by sharing news about teaching and learning at every level from preK through college and beyond. Welcome to My Learning Springboard!
High-Dosage Tutoring
The antidote to skill gaps is high-dosage tutoring, which is generally defined as intensive 1:1 tutoring at least 3x per week, or for about 50 hours over a semester. We've seen an increase in the requests for high-dosage tutoring over the past 18 months, and this trend has continued this ... Read More
Short-Term Tutoring and Targeted Skill Building
Short-term tutoring is intended to build specific skills and ultimately lead to improved effectiveness and independence. The effort scope — frequency, duration and total instructional time — is driven by a family’s specific goals and benchmarking data. At My Learning Springboard, our approach to short-term tutoring is quite different. We ... Read More
Understanding the Value of Tutoring with My Learning Springboard
Differentiated Instruction With expertise differentiating for a wide range of learners, our private tutoring and test preparation work with families is designed to meet the needs of neurotypical and neurodiverse learners. Our faculty includes Learning Specialists, Classroom Teachers, Professors, and Subject-Matter Experts with varied backgrounds and cross-training. Moreover, our private ... Read More
PreK-12 Admissions: Aging Out, Relocating, Leapfrogging, or Not Recontracting
Families change schools for a variety of reasons at different ages and grade levels. The most common reasons include aging out, relocating, leapfrogging, or not recontracting with your current school. Indeed there’s some overlap between these four categories. From an admissions perspective, the most common entry points for day schools ... Read More
Do I Have A Skillful Teacher?
Skillful teachers make all the difference. Think back to your own classroom and learning experiences over the years. Which teachers were your favorites? Which teachers had a significant positive impact on your growth and development? Which teachers pushed you in appropriately challenging ways? Which teachers really “saw” you and “heard” ... Read More
High School Admissions: 7th Grade Matters A Lot
If you have a 7th grade student, this school year is really important as you consider your 9th grade plans. Students and families interested in competitive day schools and boarding schools alike need to treat 7th grade with great care. It’s 7th grade performance that will matter the most during ... Read More
