About Our Tutors

• ActiveMinds’ tutors are professional and qualified.
• We conduct an extensive interview and require state teaching credentials and/or tutoring experience.
• We check all references and verify employment.
• Many of our tutors are actively teaching in a school system or are substitute teachers.

The Complimentary Consultation

• Conducted in your home or in our Newton office.
• Gives us an opportunity to meet you and your child to assess their academic requirements, personality and learning style.
• Gives you an opportunity to show us the curriculum your child is using and discuss your goals for the tutoring sessions.
• Investing the time to meet face-to-face with all of our clients is invaluable and essential for us to find the perfect tutor for your child!

Summer Tutoring

• Lets children explore and develop skills in areas they find interesting such as art, foreign language, writing poems and more.
• Provides enrichment and accelerated learning opportunities
• Allows students to catch up and get ahead before the start of the new school year
• Reinforces skills especially for children with learning disabilities
• Prepares students with the strategies, skills, and confidence to take upcoming standardized tests
• Supports summer school to help ensure positive results
• Rebuilds self-esteem
• Establishes and strengthens proper study and organizational skills

Does Your Student Have Special Needs?

• Many of our tutors are "special needs" certified and understand the requirements of a special needs child.
• We work with Individual Education Plans and can help your child excel and feel positive about themselves and their progress at school.

Home Schooling Assistance

• Home schooling is becoming more popular and prevalent. Our tutors will assist a parent with all subjects within a home school curriculum.
• If you are interested in moving your child from a public or private school to a home school environment, we can steer you down the right path and tell you what you need to do to get your child enrolled in a home school program.

Public and Private Education

• We tutor all grades, pre-kindergarten through high school.
• We work closely with all of the public schools in the following Districts:
  
  • Arlington School District.
  • Belmont School District
  • Boston School District
  • Brookline School District
  • Cambridge School District
  • Lexington School District
  • Lincoln School District
  • Lincoln-Sudbury School District
  • Needham School District
  • Newton School District
  • Somerville School District
  • Waltham School District
  • Watertown School District
  • Wellesley School District
  • Weston School District
    
• We also tutor students who attend private schools or alternative education schools in our area.