The Cignition Story
Cignition was founded in 2014 with the mission of building conceptual understanding, one engaged learner at a time. Our first offering was the award-winning FogStone Isle virtual world math supplement used by hundreds of thousands of elementary and middle school students and their teachers nationwide.
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Cignition was awarded a grant through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, and Schmidt Futures in 2018 for the research & development of our data-informed tutoring program utilizing highly experienced certified teachers as tutors. We piloted our tutoring program through the 2018-2019 school year and completed a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in early 2020 at which time we broadly launched Cignition tutoring to school districts nationwide.
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Cignition was also awarded an additional grant through the BMFG and Overdeck Family foundations to continue our work in extending data-informed tutoring with a focus on collaborative learning. After a year of detailed research, a new RCT was conducted. In our groundbreaking result we showed that, with 4:1 (student to tutor ratio) tutoring, we could cut costs of tutoring and the number of required tutors by a factor of 4 while IMPROVING learning.
See the benefits of Cignition’s unique data-informed expert teacher-delivered tutoring in action by clicking one of the videos below.
Elementary student tutoring (and Gates Foundation interview):
High school student (engaged in a collaborative Desmos Learning Activity):
Core Values
What Matters To Cignition Most?
Meet Our Leadership Team
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Michael Cohen
Founder & CEO -
Danielle Alcaraz
SVP - Sales -
Toni Rader
Director of Program & Client Success -
Matt Kennedy
Marketing Manager -
Scott Holman
Engineering Director