Creative Ways to Pay for Tutoring!

Hello!

Are you looking for creative ideas to pay for tutoring support? Lots of people are! Don't forget frequency, engagement and quality are going to keep your investment in tutoring worth it. No one wants to waste money or time.

Paying 'more' for a tutor that has real methods and strategies is going to save you money over the long run. Often parents end up doing years of "tutoring" that was nothing more than reading passages printed online.

Your student should feel better about themselves as a learner when you pay for educational services. Here are some ideas to help fund exceptional tutoring!

1.​Some tutoring is HSA or tax deductible​. IF your student has a medical diagnosis for anxiety, ADHD, ADD or dyslexia for example then it is highly likely that my programs (​Literacy​ and ​Connect​) will be covered. You need to check in with your HSA account rep to make sure. Some parents have been denied and others had no problem. My state certifications in five areas, training in dyslexia, degrees spanning K to 12 and my embodiment certification have worked for about half my families to use my programs as a tax write off! I also write my programs in a way that makes this more likely! Your tutor should be able to give you a tax friendly receipt to help if they meet the qualifications to provide support and have an EIN.

2. Use programs like After Pay or PayPal no interest financing to take the pay per semester rate. My services, for example, are 20% off if paid in full for the semester vs. the monthly rate! Many tutors are willing to offer this kind of a discount. You can take the discount and still make payments through a vendor if you need. I use Stripe which offers After Pay and I can also bill through PayPal.

3. Consider Your Enrichments. If your student is falling behind in academics or suffocating socially but they are in multiple enrichment activities think about what they really need this year. It doesn't have to be a 'forever' change. Sometimes academic stress comes from just being too tired after twelve hour days. I try to add in fun and social opportunities (like the upcoming student holiday market) so that tutoring or connect feels more like an enrichment. Ultimately, I believe that keeping as many doors open to our kids academically and socially is important though. Even if one year that means cutting back on extra curriculars. We all have to consider our own bandwidth, even kids!

4. Ask your tutor or coach for homework or additional support. Remember 'frequency' is the ticket to change. ​Connect​ is getting digital curriculum this round to help the girls access somatic tools anytime they need them. I have optional adaptive ​literacy software students​ can subscribe to that costs $12 per month. I recommend books to my students at any time. I can design daily writing practices.

Double or triple your investment by just practicing what was taught in a tutoring session even fifteen minutes per day. Some students aren't learning much at school due to anxiety or learning disabilities. Sometimes they are struggling due to years of poor instruction. Many of my students tell me that they don't write at school very often, if at all. A student seeing me twice a week for 45 mins might be getting their only real writing instruction in my lessons. Half of my students have only been assigned graphic novels this semester.