When we began matching in-home tutors to families in 2004, we not only had to sell parents on TeamUP! Tutors, but also the value of having a tutor come into their home. Today, a paradigm shift has occurred; it seems every family is eager for a tutor to come to them.

Simply by doing what was in the best interest of students (further reinforced by research), we suddenly found ourselves on the forefront of a tutoring revolution… or was that evolution? As far back as Aristotle, private tutors helped students achieve. According to Newsweek, “Tutoring was the world’s first pedagogical system, and all over America parents are deciding, If it was OK for Alexander the Great, it’s good enough for my kid.”

In addition to seeing parents shift their views about tutoring, we have also witnessed students change from viewing a tutor as a punishment or stigma to bragging about how their tutor is totally chill (their words, not mine).