Tutoring in Cheyenne, Wyoming
Kolu is software. Nobody from Kolu will drive to your house in Cheyenne, 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.
Laramie County School District 1 serves Cheyenne and a wide stretch of the county around it. It has three comprehensive high schools, Central, East and South, plus Triumph High School, and three junior highs, Carey, Johnson and McCormick. Where a family lives sets the elementary school, junior high and high school together, and a boundary waiver is the way to ask for a different one. The eastern end of the county, around Burns and Pine Bluffs, is a separate district, Laramie County School District 2.
State tests Cheyenne students take
| Grade | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading and writing | WY-TOPP | WY-TOPP | WY-TOPP | WY-TOPP | WY-TOPP | WY-TOPP | WY-TOPP | WY-TOPP | Not tested | Not tested |
| Math | WY-TOPP | WY-TOPP | WY-TOPP | WY-TOPP | WY-TOPP | WY-TOPP | WY-TOPP | WY-TOPP | Not tested | Not tested |
| Science | Not tested | WY-TOPP Science | Not tested | Not tested | Not tested | WY-TOPP Science | Not tested | WY-TOPP Science | Not tested | Not tested |
- WY-TOPP (Wyoming Test of Proficiency and Progress): reading and writing, math, grades 3 through 10
- WY-TOPP Science: science, grades 4, 8 and 10
The ACT a junior takes at school is the score the Hathaway Scholarship reads. The four award levels start at ACT 17, 19, 21 and 25, each paired with a GPA and a required set of high school courses, so the course plan has to be right from ninth grade.
Testing dates and graduation rules for the whole state are on a separate page. Wyoming 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 WY-TOPP. 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 Ranchettes, South Greeley, Burns, Pine Bluffs and Laramie as it does in Cheyenne.
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 Cheyenne, ask the school first. Teachers know who tutors, and a counselor at Laramie County School District 1 can tell you what the district already offers at no cost. After that, try students at Laramie County Community College or University of Wyoming, 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.