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Who We Are

Smart City Tutors has offered expert tutoring to New York families for 15+ years, bringing a personalized, thoughtful plan to each student we work with. Our tutors are highly experienced and educated, and are rigorously vetted to ensure all of our students achieve their goals - and enjoy the learning process along the way.

What To Expect

Expert Tutors

All of our tutors have extensive experience with different types of learners, high levels of education from top schools, and have been rigorously vetted. Our tutors are specialized in the content they teach, and are experts at supporting your child in the way that works best for them.

Tailored Support

Each child is unique, so each tutoring program should be, too. We work hard to ensure students are matched with tutors who are perfect fits for their learning styles, and our tutors always tailor curricula, materials, and strategies to ensure they're targeting exactly what their students need.

Academic Success

For the past fifteen years, Smart City Tutors has helped students reach and exceed their academic goals.
We carefully track student progress and family feedback to ensure we're always providing top-quality tutoring that makes a difference.

Our Services
Test Prep

At Smart City Tutors, we know that a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work when it comes to test preparation, which is why our tutors work closely with students and families to create individualized plans to help all students meet their full potential. Our tutors are specialized in teaching new content and test-taking strategies, giving targeted feedback, and guiding students through deliberate practice. Over the past decade, Smart City Tutors has helped hundreds of students improve their scores, feel confident about testing, and develop study skills they’ll use on this test and beyond.

Academic Support

Smart City Tutors offers academic tutoring for the following subjects:

  • Elementary general education (reading, writing, math, science, social studies)
  • Orton-Gillingham certified elementary reading support
  • Middle school general education (reading, writing, math, science, social studies)
  • High school general education (reading, writing, math, science, social studies)
  • Foreign language (Spanish, Latin, Italian, French, elementary Arabic)
  • Music

All of our tutors have strong backgrounds in their subject area, from language tutors who have spent decades abroad studying foreign languages to general education tutors with years of classroom and one-on-one teaching experience. In addition to broad experience, our tutors are also experts at assessing students’ areas of growth, creating detailed plans and goals based on students’ strengths, and helping students meet these goals through deliberate practice and feedback.

Executive Function

In our world today, executive functioning skills are more important than ever. To be successful, students must know how to set and achieve goals, make study plans, focus their attention, remember instructions, and juggle multiple tasks and responsibilities effectively. Our Executive Function tutors are specially trained to support students with exactly that. Our EF tutors have been trained in using the SMARTS program, and have extensive resources to support students in developing executive functioning skills. Additionally, our tutors have years of experience working with a range of types of learners, including students with special needs, and have a deep understanding of how to help students build tools to be independent and take control of their own education.

Group Tutoring

In addition to private one-on-one tutoring, Smart City Tutors also offers Group Tutoring opportunities in a variety of subject areas. Group tutoring is advantageous for several reasons, one of which is the reduced cost to your family for quality tutoring sessions. In addition, Group Tutoring can present an opportunity for peer collaboration and group problem-solving while mastering a difficult topic. As demand dictates, we offer pre-scheduled group tutoring sessions that your child can join as long as available spots exist. If your child already has a group of peers interested in attending tutoring sessions together – or if you don’t see a pre-scheduled class that works for your schedule – we are happy to work with you to create a course that works for your family. Please contact Leila Smiley at leilasmiley@smartcitykids.com to begin building a program tailored to you.

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