Elementary School Lesson Plan Tutoring 
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 17, 2023
Leo Salvatore is one of 3,000 online tutors for the company Paper, whose business has boomed with the pandemic. While he applies to graduate school, the affable 23-year-old holds a part-time job that barely existed before the pandemic: online tutor. Screenshot from Zoom interview with Jill Barshay of The Hechinger Report.).
The Hechinger Report
JUNE 14, 2016
2, 2014 photo, teacher Joy Burke surprises her students with homemade cookies as they leave their fifth grade class at John Hay Elementary school in Seattle. Cookies and math tend to go together in an elementary school classroom. Related: Customized math lessons could help students learn more, research says.
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The Hechinger Report
APRIL 29, 2024
Writing lesson plans has traditionally been a big part of a teacher’s job. Ideally, teachers are supposed to base their lessons on the textbooks, worksheets and digital materials that school leaders have spent a lot of time reviewing and selecting. But this doesn’t mean they should be starting from a blank slate.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 16, 2023
“A lot of times, [parents] let it go for a long time because it’s culturally acceptable to be bad at math,” said Heather Brand, a math specialist and operations manager for the tutoring organization Made for Math. Even after her daughter received a diagnosis, Jackson felt the girl’s school wasn’t supporting her enough.
ED Surge
JULY 2, 2024
Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, recently posted a video demo of him using a prototype of his organization’s chatbot Khanmigo, which has these features, to tutor his teenage son. Even so, the video went viral and sparked debate about whether any machine can fill in for a human in something as deeply personal as one-on-one tutoring.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 25, 2023
Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. Helping teachers be the best version of themselves takes a huge investment of time and energy, and schools just don't have the resources.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 16, 2021
In the summer of 2020 after schools had been shuttered for about three months, another nonprofit maker of math software for elementary schools called Zearn was thinking about a way to keep kids on grade level. They’ll need hours more planning time to do it well. The company borrowed a page from corporate America.
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