Long-Term Support | Lotus Education

Walking alongside your child from first grade to graduation

It's no secret that even the best schools in the country can't meet the needs of every student. Whether your child is struggling to keep up or isn't being challenged, we develop a custom growth plan for each student that adapts to their performance.

One teacher with just fifteen students means that each student receives

only four minutes of attention a day. That's twenty minutes a week in an ideal scenario.

Then there is time spent taking attendance, delivering the lesson, and so on. When is your child ever meant to get real feedback? Our students share substantial, meaningful time each and every week.

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Changing with Your Child

Every tutoring company claims to tailor a program to your student's needs, but this usually means being dragged through worksheets after a short test.

We start students in a general area based on the family's initial goals, but we know that we will discover the real strengths and weaknesses along the way.

Struggling to find a short story's theme in a 9th grade ELA class may be due to the student not understanding characterization past the 7th grade level. Of course, we couldn't have predicted that in the initial consultation, so what can we do when they're enrolled in 9th grade tutoring?

Our adaptive curriculum switches gears on the spot, filling in learning gaps as they appear to solve the problem at its root. Our teachers understand how the skills connect and develop across grade levels, so they can immediately spot learning gaps and deliver effective remediation there and then.

Progress is rarely a straight line, especially in education. A good teacher can navigate the maze of how humans learn. It takes recognizing when it may be necessary to change course, approach from another angle, or back up and go another route entirely.

A good company enables teachers to do whatever the child needs.

Visible, Immediate Impact

We measure our success by three metrics:

Does the student feel more confident?
Does the family feel more supported?
Does the gradebook reflect the student's improvement?

Our focus on those three questions drives every lesson.

It is vital that students can recognize their own growth. Visible success becomes an addictive loop where learning becomes what it was always meant to be: fun. Students should leave every class feeling more prepared for school.

Parents should be able to breathe a little when they see that confidence take hold. This part is taken care of. Regular progress reports help parents know their child is getting what they need instead of wondering and hoping.

However, feelings don't get students into college to secure a career and a hopeful future. Results speak for themselves, and our students see their grades improve at school. Because we teach academic readiness skills, our students typically see growth in subjects beyond what they learn with us.

A Rich Bed for Growth

We work with Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) to provide a full curriculum in every grade and every subject from day one. When custom lessons aren't needed, teachers can utilize HMH materials in the online text books to build their class materials each week. This gives teachers a baseline to work from, which they can expand on and adapt as needed.

HMH has been trusted for decades to deliver valuable teaching material, assessments, and supplemental resources. Used in real classrooms across the country, HMH allows accredited schools to verify that their classes adhere to the Common Core as well as state-specific standards like Texas's TEKS.

By tapping into the same full-scale support and compatibility in our materials, we can guarantee upfront that what your child sees in our classes matches the highest available standard. Our teachers have unlimited freedom to plan a lesson using what they believe will be most effective for the student.

Students will receive an HMH account when they enroll that gives them individual access to the materials. This includes access to the interactive online text book and a dashboard to manage any homework assignments, quizzes, and other supplemental materials assigned to them.

Fighting Complacency

Schools target their lessons around a bell curve of student ability. A single lesson can, at best, only hit half of the ability range, so students in the lower and upper percentiles are left out. While it is obviously problematic for those students who are already behind, advanced students get completely ignored because "They're fine." The triage goes elsewhere.

Those advanced students pass the low standard without much effort, and that becomes a routine year after year. But what was advanced in grade 5 is only on-level now in the 7th. Gifted and talented (GT) students can often go through high school without having to develop real discipline, real organizational skills, and real problem-solving. Now that college is forcing them to do all these things, they suddenly realize:

They never learned how.

This is the "GT Brick Wall." It's a sudden, sometimes violent wakeup call for families of advanced students who were lulled into complacency. Even the most prestigious schools we've worked with have left some students behind and failed to challenge others. It is inevitable, but it is also solvable.

When we don't limit teachers to a single track, they can chase students through increasingly challenging material until they find the student's limit. There is always a more advanced version to learn, a more nuanced application to explore, a more real-world problem to solve. The teacher is free to guide the student into whatever that fresh unknown is.

Walking alongside your child from first grade to graduation

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Changing with Your Child