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If you or someone you know is a high school student in grade 9-12, including those finishing high school this academic year (2015-2016), you could be interested in the 2016 Skooli Scholarship! The award is worth $1000 and the winner will also be published in EdSurge and receive 8 hours of Skooli online tutoring. As

Final exam season is here, so surely high school students everywhere are doubling down with their math tutors and upping their sleep in preparation to rake in those A+ grades. However, in case anyone is in need of some extra tips on how to make their studying really count this spring, we have a few

By Riley Webster, The Lotus Journal Whether it’s achieving that sought-after GPA to get into your dream university, figuring out how to tackle the mountain of homework on your desk, or studying for finals, we as students all experience a certain degree of stress.   The good news is that meditation can alleviate some of this

[This article was originally posted on EdSurge. It has been syndicated for the Skooli blog. You can read the original article here.] In celebration of their daughter’s birth, Mark Zuckerberg recently announced he would be donating a significant portion of an approximated $45 billion to developing personalized learning. But the Zuckerbergs are not the only

The Skooli Online Classroom is a dynamic space designed for learning a vast variety of subjects, ranging from sciences, to areas of mathematics, to languages. When it comes to learning from an English tutor, or from an ESL tutor, the online space has a handful of features that make it especially accustomed to effective language

Engaging in quality personalized learning that incorporates one-on-one mentorship and mastery learning is the single best way for a student to improve academic performance (our CEO, Dave Frey, wrote an in-depth piece on this in EdSurge). However, the way in which personalized learning is so effective changes depending on the specific subject. When it comes

When we think of online tutoring, we often imagine the user base as a combination of students at the top of the class striving to break new barriers and struggling students in need of supplemental help to keep up with faster learning classmates. Who we sometimes neglect to consider are those students who learn differently

[This article was written for Skooli by online Spanish tutor, Andrew Ollmann.] Many of you are probably wondering, “What are the advantages to learning Spanish?” or, “Why would I want I want to learn Spanish?” As a Spanish tutor, here are my answers. Spanish is a language that we are beginning to hear everyday. According

At Skooli, providing an online tutoring service we’re proud of means constantly reimagining our platform, developing our classroom to add new features, and integrating with other technologies. We’re happy to announce the newest addition to Skooli’s personalized learning toolbox: the mobile app. The Skooli mobile app is designed to enhance the virtual classroom experience for

Meet Avery Berkowitz. He’s a fantastic online math tutor who’s taking full advantage of the Skooli platform. After receiving his first session request in December 2015, he’s now booking 3-4 hours of online math tutoring per week. And he’s doing so while maintaining a 5-star rating and collecting regular positive reviews from his students and their