Watch students increase grades—and confidence.
A system-wide approach to peer tutoring for schools and districts that want to provide accessible academic support.
As a district leader, you want to help all students. But you’re up against:
Demands from the community
Increasing D and F rates
Teacher burnout
A widening equity gap
More needs than people to fill them
Growing social and emotional concerns
When you partner with Thinkist, meaningful academic support is possible.
Accessible tutoring that directly supports student learning loss.
Research-backed peer tutor training.
Your students helping your students-- not a stranger on the internet or a YouTube video.
Community building within your school or district.
Safe and secure online training and tutor sessions.
End-to-end program implementation and oversight--we do the training, tutor/tutee matching, and data collection.
Your students can learn for more than just the test.
With our MetaSocratic® method, tutors are trained to guide students, not just solve the problem. The result? Both the tutor and tutee learn to think more deeply and ask better questions, cementing the learning and their confidence far beyond the hour-long session.
What is the MetaSocratic® peer tutoring method?
Fusing the power of metacognition, thinking about thinking, and Socrates’ art of questioning to help students think critically, problem solve, and collaborate—all through an intentional social/emotional framework.
Thinkist MetaSocratic® Certified peer tutors employ a full range of tutoring practices, developing their student’s independent critical thinking skills, preparing them for success in school, career, and life.
The 5 levels of tutoring
The proof is the students
Knowing it’s okay to not know the answer, but having the persistence to work through those things can help make math more fun.
Olivia
Age 15
Before this program, I had all the pieces, but I was just memorizing them. I didn’t realize that it was like a jigsaw puzzle. I didn’t realize that you had to put all the pieces together to get the final picture.
Jacob
Age 15
Now I see that wrong answers don’t mean you don’t get it, it just means you haven’t gotten it yet.
Emma
Age 14
Here’s how it works:
01
Contact Thinkist
Talk with our team about our unique approach and determine the scope of your pilot program.
02
Get your people on board
Promote Thinkist to your site or district to run a pilot program of students as tutors and tutees.
03
Let us handle the rest
Thinkist runs the pilot program while you get back to your (long) to-do list.
04
Help more students
Scale the program and watch your students’ grades — and confidence— increase.
The secret ingredient to any successful classroom, school, or district? Relationships.
Our winning formula is that we connect your students with your students, and that’s where the learning happens.
