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Spark Tutoring offers one-to-one tutoring and small group tutoring in reading, writing, math, executive function, and enrichment. The program also provides support related to dyslexia, dyslexia remediation, ADD/ADHD, executive functioning, social emotional learning, and growth mindset, with options for online virtual tutoring. Spark Tutoring includes one-to-one peer tutoring, as well as teacher, parent, and community collaboration, consultations, workshops, and trainings.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: One-to-one tutoring sessions are available in 45-minute or 1-hour formats
• Price: Inquire for service pricing
Spark Tutoring is led by founders Lauren Papadin and Elizabeth Wade, who have a combined 45 years of experience in classrooms, therapeutic settings, and individual learning environments. Spark tutors are described as skilled at simultaneously helping students fill foundational gaps while keeping up with current content and curriculum. Sessions may include movement, mindfulness, and self-reflection, and each tutoring session is geared toward organizational skills such as planning, prioritizing, organizing, and executing tasks, as well as fostering self-regard. The program states that it works with the ultimate goal of setting students up to be successful, well-rounded, and fulfilled adults. Spark Tutoring highlights a “Spark Whole Student Learning Approach,” offers session summaries, flexible scheduling, and session reminders, and notes that executive function skills are taught and social emotional learning is cultivated. The program states that it takes into account learning needs and personality to match each student with a warm, skilled tutor, and that it makes online tutoring as fun, personal, and effective as having an in-person tutor.
Last updated March 28, 2026.
• Ages: 4–18 years old
• Schedule: One-to-one tutoring sessions are available in 45-minute or 1-hour formats
• Price: Inquire for service pricing
Spark Tutoring is led by founders Lauren Papadin and Elizabeth Wade, who have a combined 45 years of experience in classrooms, therapeutic settings, and individual learning environments. Spark tutors are described as skilled at simultaneously helping students fill foundational gaps while keeping up with current content and curriculum. Sessions may include movement, mindfulness, and self-reflection, and each tutoring session is geared toward organizational skills such as planning, prioritizing, organizing, and executing tasks, as well as fostering self-regard. The program states that it works with the ultimate goal of setting students up to be successful, well-rounded, and fulfilled adults. Spark Tutoring highlights a “Spark Whole Student Learning Approach,” offers session summaries, flexible scheduling, and session reminders, and notes that executive function skills are taught and social emotional learning is cultivated. The program states that it takes into account learning needs and personality to match each student with a warm, skilled tutor, and that it makes online tutoring as fun, personal, and effective as having an in-person tutor.
Last updated March 28, 2026.
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