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Practical tools to help you plan focused, standards-aligned sessions — and teach to the California standards the State sets. Free to use, nothing to install.

Planning tools

Plan and run a great session

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✍Assign Homework as a TutorMake between-session work that actually gets done.Read the guide →📋Plan a Tutoring LessonA simple open-teach-practice-check structure that makes real progress.Read the guide →🔢Teach Word ProblemsThe translation skill students actually lack — and how to teach it.Read the guide →💬Work With a Shy StudentBuild the trust and wait-time that lets a quiet student open up.Read the guide →📝Use Practice Tests EffectivelyTurn practice tests into real score gains.Read the guide →📈Growing Your TutoringResults, referrals, reliability, and a clear niche — how to fill your schedule.Read the guide →🪨Handling a Tough SessionStay calm, meet the student where they are, reset with a small win, and salvage the day.Read the guide →🎯Keeping Students MotivatedShow progress, vary the routine, connect to goals, and build ownership.Read the guide →🔍Assessing a New StudentFind the true starting point — the real gap, plus skills and confidence.Read the guide →💡Explaining a ConceptWhen one explanation doesn’t land, switch representations and check understanding.Read the guide →🌱Re-Engaging a StudentFind the why, lower the stakes, use their interests, and rebuild momentum with small wins.Read the guide →⏱Pacing a SessionWarm up, follow a flexible plan, balance teaching and practice, and end on a win.Read the guide →👥Communicating With ParentsBuild parent trust with clear expectations, brief specific updates, and honesty.Read the guide →💬Feedback That MotivatesGive feedback that improves the next piece of work — specific, forward-looking, and encouraging.Read the guide →🤝Building RapportBuild trust with a student fast — the first five minutes, making mistakes safe, and early wins.Read the guide → 📝Session PlannerMap a full session — warm-up, focus, guided and independent practice, homework — then print or save it as a PDF.Open planner → 📈Progress Report GeneratorTurn a few notes into a clean, parent-facing progress update in seconds.Open → 📊Quiz Grader & Reteach ListPaste an answer key with skill tags, add student answers, and get scores plus what to reteach.Open → 📏Rubric BuilderBuild a grading rubric with criteria and point values, then print it.Open → 📅Pacing Guide BuilderLay out topics across the weeks you have, so nothing gets missed before a test.Open →
Handy calculators

Tools you can use with students

🎯GPA CalculatorWeighted and unweighted GPA in seconds.Open → 🧮Final Grade CalculatorWhat a student needs on the final to hit their target.Open → 🔁SAT ↔ ACT ConverterTranslate scores between the two tests.Open → 🗓️Study PlannerBuild a study schedule leading up to a test.Open →
New tools

More free classroom & planning tools

🗂️Lesson Plan BuilderTurn your objective, warm-up, and I-do/we-do/you-do steps into a clean, printable lesson plan.Open → 🎟️Exit Ticket GeneratorGenerate 3 print-ready exit-ticket prompts by subject and thinking level in seconds.Open → 👥Random Group GeneratorPaste your roster and instantly split students into fair, random groups or pairs.Open → 🧩Accommodation ChecklistTick the supports a student needs and print a clean, organized accommodations summary.Open → 📖Reading Log MakerBuild a printable weekly reading log with daily minutes goals and a parent-initial column.Open → ✉️Parent Note TemplatesWarm, editable note templates for messaging families in seconds — pick one, fill two blanks, copy.Open →
More tools

More classroom & prep tools

🧰Seating Chart MakerPaste a class list, pick a grid, and print a tidy seating chart in seconds.Open → 🧰Random Student PickerPaste your roster and let a fair, random draw decide who answers next.Open → 🧰Behavior & Reward ChartBuild a clean, printable behavior and reward chart in seconds — name, days, goals, and stars to fill in by hand.Open → 🧰Word Problem GeneratorInstantly build a printable worksheet of realistic math word problems, with an optional answer key.Open → 🧰Substitute Plan BuilderFill in your class details and generate a tidy, printable plan any substitute can follow.Open → 🧰Printable Quiz MakerType your questions once and generate a clean student quiz plus a matching answer key.Open →
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Games, review & classroom prep

🧰Word Search GeneratorTurn any word list into a printable word-search puzzle with an answer key.Open → ✏️Cloze Passage GeneratorPaste any passage, blank every Nth word or your vocab words, and print it with a word bank and answer key.Open → 🧩Crossword Puzzle GeneratorType vocabulary words and clues and print a numbered crossword with a word bank and answer key.Open → 🧰Bingo Card GeneratorTurn any vocab or review list into a set of printable, uniquely shuffled 5x5 bingo cards.Open → 🧰Certificate MakerMake a clean, printable award certificate in seconds — name it, style it, print it.Open → 🧰Attendance Sheet GeneratorBuild a clean, printable attendance grid from a class name, days, and a student list.Open → 🧰Discussion Question GeneratorSpark real discussion with 6-8 open-ended, Socratic questions in seconds.Open → 🧰Learning Objective WriterTurn any topic into clear, measurable "Students will be able to…" objectives, one Bloom's level at a time.Open →
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Graphic organizers & classroom printables

🧰Frayer Model GeneratorBuild printable 4-quadrant Frayer Model vocabulary organizers in seconds.Open → 🧰KWL Chart MakerBuild a printable Know / Want to know / Learned chart in seconds.Open → 🧰Venn Diagram MakerBuild a printable two-circle Venn diagram for comparing any two things.Open → 🧰Classroom Jobs AssignerFairly and randomly assign classroom jobs to your students in one click.Open → 🧰Desk Name TentsTurn a class list into printable fold-and-stand desk name tents in seconds.Open → 🧰Reading Fluency TimerTime oral reading and get words-correct-per-minute (WCPM) instantly.Open →

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