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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
Auditing Academic Skills: Leveraging the ISEE and SSAT

Auditing Academic Skills: Recent Research and Data In a recent research brief from July 2023, NWEA estimates that the average student needs 4.1 additional months of reading instruction and 4.5 additional months of math instruction in order to catch up to pre-pandemic levels. This month, the Aspen Economic Strategy Group hosted ... Read More
Coding for Kids Revisited

By Anna Adam and Helen Mowers Original Source: Edutopia Originally posted December 30, 2014 While it feels like we just wrote 7 Apps for Teaching Children Coding Skills, it's been a year, and as we know, that’s a couple of lifetimes in the technology world! Over the past year, we've discovered even ... Read More
What is A Holistic Review For College Admissions?

Grappling With College Admissions: Test-Optional Policies And Holistic Reviews We're observing that many families are feeling overwhelmed and/or confused by the state of college admissions (e.g. test-optional policies, holistic reviews) and what they should be doing. We’re here to help you make sense of it. If we had to boil ... Read More
High-Dosage Tutoring

Following several years of significant operational disruptions, schools are focused on stabilizing routines and expectations and reconciling underdeveloped skills given the overwhelming data on pandemic learning loss experienced to some degree for the majority of learners in both private and public schools. In a recent research brief from July 2023, ... Read More