Solutions · High-impact tutoring
High-impact tutoring that proves it worked
Pencil Spaces runs high-impact tutoring for districts, nonprofits and the providers they hire: small groups, the same tutor every week and minutes that add up. These are the problems programs run into, from the first contract to the funder report, and how Pencil Spaces solves each one.
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Industry
Tutoring
Who
Program and district leaders, Tutors, Students, Families
Problems mapped
56
Aujourd'hui
47 solved, 8 partly solved, 1 coming soon
Clients
Built for high-impact tutoring
- Proving every student got their minutesDosage Tracking · NewDosage Tracking shows each cohort’s scheduled minutes next to the minutes actually delivered, so a gap shows up in week three, not in June.
- Same group, same Space, every weekPersistent Spaces · AvailablePersistent Spaces save everything between lessons, so each group picks up exactly where the last lesson ended.
- Passing the district’s privacy reviewSecurity & Compliance · AvailablePencil Spaces is COPPA, FERPA, GDPR and CCPA compliant, and Recording Policies can exclude student video for privacy.
Customer stories
- ALP CharlotteCustomer storyFirst graders gained 46.1 points, nearly twice the 23.7 of matched peers (UNC Charlotte)
Program and district leaders
- No evidence on which program design worksPartly solved today
- Funding is hard to win and keepSolved today
- Security reviews and RFPs take monthsSolved today
- Student data under COPPA, FERPA and GDPRSolved today
- Proving compliance to every districtSolved today
- Rosters fall out of step with the SISSolved today
- Logins fail, young children most of allSolved today
- School networks and devices block lessonsPartly solved today
- Launching a term or a site takes weeksSolved today
- Too few tutors for every subject and slotPartly solved today
- Hard to judge teaching skill before hiringSolved today
- New tutors take too long to be readySolved today
- Little baseline on each student’s needsSolved today
- Matching students to tutors by handSolved today
- Building a term’s schedule takes daysSolved today
- Finding a substitute in timeSolved today
- Students and tutors forget to show upSolved today
- No-shows and join failures at start timeSolved today
- No live view across every lessonSolved today
- No shared standard for good teachingSolved today
- Too few lessons are ever observedSolved today
- Coaches can’t give every tutor feedbackSolved today
- Delivery drifts from the model across sitesSolved today
- Children alone online with adults, unseenSolved today
- Attendance entered and fixed by handSolved today
- Under-dosed students spotted too lateSolved today
- Hard to show tutoring caused the growthSolved today
- Reports stitched together from many systemsSolved today
- Research takes months of data wranglingSolved today
- Families hear little about each lessonSolved today
- Messages miss families in other languagesPartly solved today
- Schools don’t know what tutoring coversPartly solved today
- No clear view of cost per childSolved today
- Tutor pay rebuilt from timesheetsSolved today
- Renewals need proof that’s hard to showSolved today
- Hard to stand out and prove impactComing soon
Tuteurs
- Unready for their first real studentsSolved today
- Meeting a new student coldSolved today
- Attention drifts, young kids most of allSolved today
- Differentiating for a whole group at onceSolved today
- “I get it” that isn’t trueSolved today
- Inheriting students with no contextSolved today
- Logging attendance after every lessonSolved today
- Signs of harm or distress go unnoticedPartly solved today
Students
- Forgetting, or no adult to get them thereSolved today
- Lessons cancelled or tutors missingSolved today
- Only a phone or a locked-down ChromebookSolved today
- Accommodations missing in the lessonSolved today
- Afraid of being wrong in front of peersSolved today
- Learning in a second languageSolved today
- “I’m just bad at this”Solved today
- Can’t see how far they’ve comeSolved today
Families
- “It was fine” is all they hearSolved today
- Unsure their child actually attendedPartly solved today
- Wary of recordings and AI on their childSolved today
- Language barriers with the programPartly solved today
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