In 2025, Learn To Be volunteer tutors delivered over one hundred twelve thousand hours of free, one-on-one online tutoring to students who needed it most.
From 2,161 hours in 2019 to 112,509 in 2025. Learn To Be has grown every single year — through a pandemic, through economic uncertainty, through everything.
Seventeen years of free tutoring. Every hour donated by a volunteer. Every student matched with someone who cares.
Math remains our largest subject area, followed by reading and writing — the three foundational skills that determine everything that comes after.
Learn To Be's tutors are volunteers — high school students, college students, retired teachers, and working professionals who donate their time. This means nearly every dollar goes directly to supporting the tutoring program, not paying instructors.
At $6.33 per hour, we deliver high-quality 1-on-1 tutoring at a fraction of what families would pay on the open market — where the average tutor charges $40–60/hour.
children in the U.S. are reading or doing math below grade level.
Launching Coursekit — our own curriculum engine with tutorials, worked examples, and practice problems built on learning science. Every lesson follows the explicit instruction sequence.
Integrated math facts practice with spaced repetition and gamification — because automaticity on foundational skills is non-negotiable for everything that comes after.
Growing our 50+ tutor program — retired teachers and professionals bringing decades of experience to students who need stable, committed mentors.
Every hour of tutoring costs us just $6. Every dollar you give becomes time a volunteer spends helping a child learn to read, write, and do math.