one-on-one tutoring
Our one-on-one tutoring is designed to support every student—whether they need enrichment or more intensive academic support.
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We blend our customized curriculum with the Common Core lessons being taught in your child’s classroom, ensuring a seamless learning experience. Our team also collaborates with local classroom teachers to align instruction and reinforce what your child is learning at school.
Ready to get started? Please fill out the enrollment form below.
fill out an enrollment form here
$65 per
hour in our studio
$80 per hour in your home
billed monthly
our enrollment process
All new students begin with a three-session enrollment period. During these 60-minute sessions, we’ll get to know your child—their interests, learning style, multiple intelligences, and academic strengths and challenges—through Common Core standards-based assessments.
To get started, please complete the NEW STUDENT ENROLLMENT FORM by clicking the red bar at the top of this page. Be sure to provide as much detail as possible regarding your child’s after-school availability; this helps us schedule sessions quickly and efficiently.
Once the form is submitted, you’ll receive an email to confirm your account and set your password. We’ll then schedule your first three sessions based on the availability you provided and send you an email with the session details and your assigned tutor’s contact information.
Payment for the three enrollment sessions will be charged to your card on file:
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$75 per session at our office
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$90 per session for in-home tutoring
After the third session, we’ll create a personalized Academic Blueprint Plan tailored to your child’s needs. From there, tutoring will continue at your scheduled weekly time(s), and your card will be billed monthly in advance on the 1st of each month, until we receive a 30-day notice to cancel services.
initial assessments
During the first few sessions, we take time to understand your child’s unique learning style, multiple intelligences, and academic strengths and areas for growth.
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Using diagnostic assessments, we identify which concepts your child has already mastered and which ones need further practice. These assessments evaluate your child’s skills in the following areas:
READING:
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Early Literacy Skills
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Phonics & Word Recognition
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Sight Words
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Independent, Instructional, & Frustration Reading Levels
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Reading Fluency
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Fiction Comprehension
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Non-Fiction Comprehension
math:
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Early Math Skills
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Math Facts
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Place Value
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Addition & Subtraction
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Measurement & Data
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Geometry
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Multiplication & Division
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Fractions
structured tutoring sessions
While each student’s tutoring sessions are tailored to their individual needs, they generally follow a consistent structure:
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First 10 minutes: We check in on the previous week's goal and briefly review previously covered concepts and discuss the student’s use of a growth mindset and how it applied to their academic work over the past week.
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Next 5 minutes: We focus on foundational skills that require regular practice, such as sight words, math facts, or reading fluency.
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Next 35-40 minutes: We target skills the student has not yet mastered. This portion can be used for homework support or assignments sent home by the classroom teacher.
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Final 5 minutes: We set new goals for the upcoming week and update the student’s progress notes for our records.
Throughout the session, we incorporate games, hands-on activities, student-led discovery, and multi-sensory techniques to enhance learning and retention in an engaging and meaningful way.
how we monitor progress
We use the information from your enrollment form and our diagnostic assessments to establish an academic baseline for your child. Instead of conducting formal reassessments every 4–6 weeks, we track progress continuously by noting mastered skills during each session.
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We update your child’s official academic record with new reading benchmark levels, math fact fluency, and report card grades following parent-teacher conferences, progress reports, and report cards. For middle and high school students, we focus on updating their records with report card grades.
All academic records are kept in your child’s binder, and your tutor is always happy to share them with you upon request.
a dozen more reasons
Still not sure if one-on-one tutoring is right for your child? We have 12 more reasons why Kids Under Construction is Long Beach's favorite tutoring business.
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Students retain 98% of the material they learn during one-on-one instruction in their long-term memory.
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Our students work with experienced educators that have been thoroughly interviewed and background checked.
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Tutors help students maintain notebooks that show progress through grade-level common core standards.
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Our tutors are local experts in a variety of subjects and grade levels that are matched with students based on personalities, learning styles, availability, and academic strengths and needs.
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Our tutors are reliable and personable, and can offer you a consistent schedule that you can plan around.
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Working one-on-one with students allows our tutors to provide individualized instruction without being tied to a set curriculum or learning style.
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Our tutors perform ongoing, formative assessments and collect data to monitor indvidual goal attainment.
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Students can choose whether they would like to come in to our academic studio or work in their own home.
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Student progress is monitored by their tutor and by Kristen, Owner and President of Kids Under Construction.
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Our office crew manages finances and concerns so that tutors can focus on academics during tutoring sessions.
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Payments are processed on the first of the month.
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We have been in business since 2008, and we are proud of the reputation that we have built in the local academic community.