"Growth Beyond Grades"

Our Process

It’s easier than ever to get started with a Connected to Learning tutor.
  1. Search for a tutor that matches your needs. Start with searching by subject and location.  Don't see any tutors that meet what you're looking for?  We are always looking for more tutors, so contact us with your needs and we will see if we can find the right tutor for you.
  2. You can review each tutor’s profile to see if their philosophy and other details match what you’re looking for.  Want to see additional information on tutors? Contact us and let us know what other information you would like to have added and we'll look into having it included in tutor profiles.
  3. Once you’ve found the tutor you’re interested in, click on the 'Send this tutor a message' button at the top of the tutor profile.
  4. Enter in a message to the tutor asking any outstanding questions you have, specific days/times that you would like to have the tutor, or any other relevant comments.
  5. The tutor will receive your message and reply to you with their response.  If necessary you can reply back and ask further questions, get clarifications or finalize arrangements.
  6. Once you are ready to pay for the tutor, click on the payment link that is included in your e-mail correspondance with the tutor.
  7. Once you have made payment, we will send both you and the tutor each other's contact information so you can begin the tutor sessions.  Note: the payment confirmation step is currently manual.  We usually can perform confirmations within a couple of hours, but there may be up to a 1 business day delay in receiving the tutor's contact information.
  8. The tutor will either come to your home, or meet you at the public location that you have agreed to for the sessions. We do not recommend you or your child go to the tutor’s house for the tutoring sessions.

What Does the Research Say?

The following is an excerpt from an expert in reading intervention. The same research holds true in other areas of instruction and is the motivation for what we are striving to provide at Connected to Learning.

Struggling readers need larger amounts of more expert, more personalized, and more intensive reading instruction. In the end, the quality of that instruction is critical, and high-quality instruction for struggling readers cannot simply be boxed up and shipped to a site. High-quality reading instruction, especially for struggling readers, requires the expertise to identify just where the reader has gotten off-track and then to design instruction that moves the reader back onto an accelerated track of development.”

Research and the Three Tier model. (April 2006). Reading Today, 23(5), 20.

IRA President Richard L. Allington is a professor of education at the University of Tennessee.