Every Student, Every Family, Every Student Reading.

We provide a virtual reading clinic to improve reading outcomes for students, families, and the community. Why do we exist? Because 1 out of every 5 students has a language-based disability like dyslexia where reading, spelling and writing can be difficult.

Virtual Reading Clinic

Our virtual reading clinic helps students overcome reading difficulties by providing a digital diagnostic using AI voice technology, on-demand digital curriculum, and one-to-one online tutoring in reading, comprehension and spelling for students in grades 1-12. Our reading tutors are live, trained teachers, college students, and community members. Tutors help students in our virtual classroom to address specific reading goals.

Features

Our diagnostic tool helps families identify student reading strengths and opportunities to improve.

Our digital mini lessons and practice activities for home. helps families build upon student strengths to improve student reading skills using a structured literacy and multi-sensory approach.

When students need extra support, our live, trained tutors are available to work with your students on specific reading goals using our digital foundational reading skills curriculum in our virtual classroom.

Our Unique Approach

Structured Literacy

Reading curriculum using a Structured Literacy approach to build reading proficiency, so we know it works.

Virtual First

Virtual Tutoring plus on-demand diagnostics and digital tools so we can reach any student any where who needs support during or after school.

Learner-Centered

Relationships, goal setting, and strategy instruction help develop independent, self-directed learners.

Community

School, community, and family partnerships help us reach as many students as possible through schools, nonprofits, churches and after school programs.

Our Partners

How We Help Students

Here is a video on how we help our students overcoming with reading difficulties.

Meet Our Founder

Demetrius is an educator helping educators and families partner to support students socially, emotionally and academically. He is a former K-8 school leader and teacher in Indianapolis, Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Bay Area.  He is a graduate of Columbia University and James Madison University. Click here to see Demetrius in action with students.

Demetrius gets his inspiration from his first teacher, his mom. As a young child, he watched her use almost anything to reach her students; and when he struggled in his own learning, he saw his mom move mountains to get what he needed.

Hear from Our Families

“Joy for Education is an excellent resource for our family especially during this pandemic. We have been homeschooling our two sons and love that process but also felt that we needed guidance and mentorship from someone with experience in education. We feel blessed to have access to this amazing program and highly recommend it for children who need to be challenged, children who need guidance, and parents who are looking for quality support. The boys look forward to their tutoring sessions and have grown academically since they started. With this help we are setting our boys up for total success.

 

-Oscar and Bernice Gutierrez

Getting Started with Virtual Tutoring

Who We Support

Our reading clinic is for students in grades 4-12 and their families. The fee for tutoring is $150 for each 12-week term. Comparable services in the public sector may run as high as $2,000). Scholarships are available for students with financial need.

We also work with schools and community organizations (afterschool programs, churches, and nonprofit organizations to bring reading support to students in grades 4-12 and their families.

Our digital diagnostic tool and digital curriculum are free for families (available Summer 2023). Join our waitlist to be alerted when these tools are available. Click here to join our waitlist

Sign Up Today

For Families

  • Click the “Getting Started” button
  • Complete intake form about your students’ needs
  • Schedule a reading diagnostic session with our reading specialists
  • Pay session fee or request a scholarship
  • Schedule a time for your students’ reading diagnostic assessment

For Schools, Community Organizations

  • Schedule a 30 min call to learn about your community needs
  • Complete partnership agreement

What We Do

Our Goal

Our goal is to identify students’ current reading strengths and needs and provide appropriate instruction to support their reading growth. Through explicit and systematic instruction, students learn and practice skills to improve word recognition, overall fluency, spelling, and comprehension. Occasionally, students make gains in reading levels within one 12-week round of instruction, but this is not to be expected. Instead, we build student efficacy and develop rapport in order to establish a long-term learning partnership with students that supports sustained reading growth.

Diagnosis

Prior to instruction, diagnostic tests are administered to determine literacy strengths and needs. We look carefully at word recognition needs: sight vocabulary, phonetic analysis, structural analysis and contextual analysis. We use diagnostic data to co-create a learning plan with students and use progress monitoring data to adjust instruction to ensure students are making meaningful progress toward their goals.

Instruction

Students meet twice a week for 30-min sessions in a 1-1 or small group online setting. During each session, students learn and practice a target skill based on the student’s learning plan. We monitor and share progress for each student weekly, and at the end of each term, families receive a full data report.

Our virtual model enables us to easily integrate into intervention or Tier 2 instructional blocks for literacy during the school day. We also integrate seamlessly in homework help blocks during out of school time.

Our Unique Approach

Reading Science

Reading curriculum based on reading science, so we know it works

Virtual First

Virtual Tutoring so we can reach any student who needs support during or after school

Learner-Centered

Relationships, goal setting, and strategy instruction help develop independent, self-directed learners

Community

School, community, and family partnerships help us reach as many students as possible through schools, nonprofits, churches and after school programs