Tutoring in Savannah, Georgia
Kolu is software. Nobody from Kolu will drive to your house in Savannah, and we have no office there. If you want a person, this page says how we would look for one. If the question is which skill is missing, we can help with that part.
City and county share a single district here, the Savannah-Chatham County Public School System, so Pooler, Garden City and Tybee Island are on the same calendar as downtown Savannah. Every address has a zoned school. The district also runs Choice Programs, specialty programs a family applies to in place of the zoned school. Applications open in January for the following school year, seats are assigned by lottery, and programs for grades 3 to 12 set eligibility criteria an applicant has to meet first. Richmond Hill, to the south, is in Bryan County Schools.
State tests Savannah students take
| Grade | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading and writing | Georgia Milestones EOG | Georgia Milestones EOG | Georgia Milestones EOG | Georgia Milestones EOG | Georgia Milestones EOG | Georgia Milestones EOG | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested |
| Math | Georgia Milestones EOG | Georgia Milestones EOG | Georgia Milestones EOG | Georgia Milestones EOG | Georgia Milestones EOG | Georgia Milestones EOG | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested |
| Science | Not tested | Not tested | Georgia Milestones EOG | Not tested | Not tested | Georgia Milestones EOG | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested |
- Georgia Milestones EOG (Georgia Milestones End-of-Grade): reading and writing, math, grades 3 through 8
- Georgia Milestones EOG: science, grades 5 and 8
Georgia ties promotion to the test. A third grader has to reach grade level in reading on Georgia Milestones to move up, and fifth and eighth graders in both reading and math. A student who misses is retested, and a parent can appeal a retention to a placement committee, whose vote to promote must be unanimous.
Testing dates and graduation rules for the whole state are on a separate page. Georgia guide
Kolu finds the missing skill and goes back to it
It starts with a skill check, a short test that gets harder or easier depending on the last answer. The result is a map of the subject broken into skills with their prerequisites drawn in, each one marked as solid, still being learned, or a gap.
After that, each session is a handful of activities picked for that student, usually something due for review, a gap to repair and one new skill. When an answer is wrong, Kolu looks at which earlier skill the mistake points to and goes back to it. Here is what that looks like for a sixth grader who can't divide fractions.
The problem on the page
3/4 ÷ 2/5
Dividing fractions
Grade 6
Multiplying fractions
Grade 5 · rests on the one below
Equivalent fractions
Grade 4 · usually where it started
Multiplication facts
Grade 3
Kolu does not call a skill mastered after one right answer. That takes correct work on different kinds of problems on different days, and a skill that fades gets brought back.
Kolu is not test prep for Georgia Milestones EOG. It has no bank of released questions. It teaches the skills the test draws on, and it will not do tonight's homework.
It runs in a browser, so it works the same in Pooler, Garden City, Port Wentworth, Richmond Hill and Tybee Island as it does in Savannah.
When to hire a person instead
Some students need a person, and software is the wrong purchase for them. That includes a child who shuts down when the work gets hard, a student with a learning disability who needs someone trained in it, and anyone with an exam in ten days.
In Savannah, ask the school first. Teachers know who tutors, and a counselor at Savannah-Chatham County Public School System can tell you what the district already offers at no cost. After that, try students at Savannah State University, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus or Savannah Technical College, who took these courses recently and usually charge less than an agency.
Whoever you hire, ask one question before the first session: how will you find out what my child doesn't know? If the answer is that they will go over the homework, keep looking.
Free for one subject, $15 a month for 5
Kolu is free for one subject at a time, with one full skill check every 30 days and up to 4 sessions a day. Plus is $15 a month, or $120 for a year, and covers 5 subjects at once with unlimited skill checks. A learner under 13 needs a parent or guardian to set up the account.