practical guide
How to Read a Student's IEP or 504 Plan Before Session One
Parents forward the plan the night before the first session. Here is how to find the accommodations, present levels, and goals that change what you actually do at the table.
The magazine
Session Notes
Reporting on the craft, pricing, and paperwork of running an independent tutoring practice in the United States.
Nine reports on the work that surrounds the tutoring hour: reading a student's plan before session one, choosing between the digital SAT and the ACT, writing a package agreement that holds up, and following a seventy dollar hour down to what is left. Written by Jimenez Julien, who builds the session credit ledger behind TutorCredits.
- Published
- Articles
- 9 in this issue
- Written for
- Tutors and small centers
comparison
Digital SAT vs ACT: How to Advise a Family on Test Choice
The digital SAT is adaptive and shorter. The ACT runs with an optional science section. Here is how each format changes prep hours, pacing drills, and the score a student can realistically reach.
mistakes to avoid
Seven No-Show and Make-Up Policy Mistakes That Cost Tutors Hours
Most tutoring practices lose more hours to fuzzy rescheduling rules than to lost clients. These are the policy gaps that let credits burn without a lesson happening, and how to close each one.
regulation and compliance
W-2 or 1099: Classifying the Tutors Who Work for You
The IRS common law test, state ABC tests, and your own scheduling habits decide whether a tutor is a contractor or an employee. Here is what each factor looks like inside a tutoring business.
case study
How a District High-Dosage Tutoring Contract Is Built and Paid
School districts buy tutoring by dosage, ratio, and attendance, not by the hour. Here is how a high dosage contract defines sessions, staffing, and invoicing, and where small centers lose money on it.
trends and outlook
Who Pays for Tutoring Now That ESSER Money Is Gone
Federal relief money paid for a lot of tutoring, and it has been spent. Here is the map of what remains: Title I set asides, state literacy grants, education savings accounts, and families paying directly.
checklist
What Your Tutoring Package Agreement Must Spell Out: A Checklist
Before a parent hands over money for ten sessions, the agreement should answer expiration, refunds, transfers, and who owns the credits. Work through this list line by line before you sell again.
numbers and benchmarks
Where a $70 Tutoring Hour Goes: Tutor Pay, Fees, and Idle Time
Take one seventy dollar session and subtract tutor pay, card processing, unused credits, and unbilled prep. This is how the margin on a tutoring hour is actually built, with the arithmetic shown.
field report
The August to October Ramp: How Fall Tutoring Schedules Fill
Back to school nights, the first progress reports, and the October PSAT set the shape of a tutoring calendar. Here is how the fall inquiry wave arrives and how practices staff themselves for it.
From the publisher
The paperwork behind the reading is a product
Every article here ends at the same place: a balance somebody has to keep, a policy somebody has to enforce, a note somebody has to write. TutorCredits does that part, so the hour you teach stays the hour you teach.