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High-impact tutoring for Colorado schools.

Live, small-group virtual tutoring in K–12 math and ELA, with experience in Denver Public Schools and Brighton 27J. Build on Colorado’s reading and mathematics priorities with focused instruction, student discussion, and a school-day plan that works.

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A closer look at Colorado

Colorado state silhouette

Your state’s priorities.
Your students’ next steps.

What Colorado is prioritizing

State priorities.
Focused support.

Strong early readers. Math intervention guided by student evidence. High-impact tutoring built around consistent relationships and time to learn.

Explore Colorado funding

Official sources checked November 4, 2026

Foundational reading, backed by a READ plan.

Colorado’s emphasis

The READ Act focuses on early reading, identifying significant reading deficiencies and planning targeted support. Strong foundational skills, evidence-based instruction, and progress monitoring belong in the same conversation.

The Cignition connection

Discuss the specific reading skills your students need next. Review proposed ELA lessons, tutor qualifications, and progress information with your literacy team. Your school leads READ plans and determines how supplemental instruction fits its requirements.

Explore Colorado’s READ Act resources ↗

Math support, from foundations to future pathways.

Colorado’s emphasis

CDE’s mathematics intervention guidance starts with student evidence. It distinguishes system-wide, classroom, and individual learning needs, then connects the response to specific topics, instructional goals, and additional learning time.

High school teams are also preparing for revised math pathways, adopted in May 2026 for implementation by 2028–29. The pathways connect advanced study with students’ interests and postsecondary plans.

The Cignition connection

Identify the mathematical ideas students need to strengthen. Connect prerequisite support with classroom learning through visual models, purposeful questions, and discussion. Use participation and learning information to review the plan with your school team.

Explore Colorado’s mathematics intervention guidance ↗

Explore Colorado’s high school math pathways ↗

High-impact means a purposeful routine.

Colorado’s emphasis

Colorado describes high-impact tutoring as targeted support through repeated tutor–student interactions, with clear goals and attention to frequency, duration, and student evidence. The instructional design matters alongside the learning task.

The Cignition connection

Plan consistent groups, a recurring schedule, and school-team check-ins. Our Denver and Overland Trail experiences offer concrete examples of how schedules, attendance, and instructional time shape a program.

Explore Colorado’s tutoring model ↗

Our curriculum. Your instructional goals.

From a learning target
to student thinking.

Start with the skill your students need next. Connect the learning goal, the task, and the explanation that shows how a student is thinking.

The Colorado connection · A closer look at instruction

From a learning need to the work students do.

Colorado’s emphasis on READ plans, mathematics intervention, and consistent tutoring time provides context for reviewing this sample. Examine how a learner connects integer operations with a model and explains a change.

Compare the task and prerequisites with your classroom sequence and student work.

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Middle school mathematics

Math · 6–8 sample. Open the student lesson to examine the tasks for yourself.

Open the middle school mathematics sample ↗

What should we look for?

Consider how a learner connects integer operations with a model and explains a change. Which responses would help your team decide what the student understands and what to teach next?

How would this connect with our curriculum?

Compare the learning goal, task, language, and prerequisites with your classroom materials. Your school’s learning sequence and the students’ starting points guide that discussion.

How should we use this example?

This grade-band sample illustrates selected instruction. It has not been customized for Colorado and is not a comprehensive state standards alignment. For a specific alignment question, share the standard and classroom materials with our team.

Browse all math & ELA samples →Ask a curriculum question →

Colorado schools. Shared experience.

Colorado partnerships.
Lessons that
carry forward.

Denver Public Schools and Brighton 27J bring this work into focus. Explore a districtwide math program, a middle school’s two-year experience, and what those partnerships can contribute to your school’s planning.

For a new Colorado partnership, Cignition brings live virtual tutors, purpose-built curriculum, a dedicated program manager, and useful participation and learning information. Your school brings its learning priorities, protected time, technology, and local support. Local partnership experience informs planning; each new program has its own scope and requirements.

Colorado school partners

Denver Public Schools
27J Schools

Overland Trail Middle School

1,044 students.
21 schools. A district partnership.

In 2022–23, Cignition supported grades 3–9 with live, small-group math tutoring across Denver Public Schools. Consistent schedules and weekly school-team conversations connected the tutoring routine with classroom learning.

A place in the school day

The program built on a spring 2020–21 pilot and a first full year in 2021–22. Local schedules and teacher-selected learning goals shaped the work.

77.5% average attendance

The 2022–23 report recorded higher average attendance than the prior year’s 64.2%. These are program participation measures from different school-year groups.

“In the second year of the program, I can see a deeper conceptual understanding in the kids.”Meg CypressMeg Cypress5th Grade Teacher and Senior Team LeadPlace Bridge Academy · Denver Public Schools2019 Colorado Teacher of the Year
Explore the Denver partnership →

Colorado funding landscape

Understand the investment.
Find a relevant pathway.

Explore federal awards, READ Act intervention funds, state literacy grants, and after-school opportunities. Start with your school’s goals and the requirements of each pathway.

Explore Colorado’s READ Act funding

Selected federal funding for Colorado

FY 2026 · Published statewide awards

Read the COLORADO row and Fiscal Year 2026 column in each federal award table. Links highlight the row in supporting browsers. These statewide allocations are not unspent funds or a dedicated tutoring budget. Allowable uses differ. Title II supports educator capacity, not general tutoring services. Confirm your district’s available balance and approved use with its program lead.

Colorado budgets and grant pathways

Funding reviewed November 10, 2026

Connect the investment
with your school plan

District-controlled award · Approved use required

Who / what it supports

Colorado’s Title I-A guidance connects schoolwide support with a comprehensive needs assessment and school plan. Targeted assistance serves eligible students who need extra educational support.

Where tutoring could fit

Review recurring math or ELA tutoring against your school’s identified needs, approved activities, instructional evidence, and available budget.

Practical next step: Ask your federal programs lead to confirm the program model, fiscal requirements, eligible students, and local purchasing process.

Review Colorado’s Title I-A guidance ↗

Colorado Academic Accelerator: an existing out-of-school route

COAAP funds community learning centers that combine STEM and mathematics support, tutoring, enrichment, and family engagement outside school hours. Current grantees can review a proposed service against their approved program and remaining award. The appropriation remains available through FY 2026–27 after a 2026 reduction. This is not an advertised new application round or a Cignition provider approval.

Explore Colorado’s Academic Accelerator program ↗

Also explore Colorado’s CLSD awards and requirements ↗. Earlier high-impact tutoring awards should not be treated as an open funding opportunity.

Colorado · Program fit & purchasing

Start with fit.
Confirm the requirements.

CDE’s 2024 tutoring report describes Cignition’s work in Denver and 27J. For a new partnership, start with your school’s instructional goals and approved funding plan. Review proposed lessons, tutor qualifications, progress reporting, and student-data protections with your district. For READ Act or literacy-grant plans, also review applicable CDE advisory lists, personnel qualifications, and your district’s implementation requirements. Confirm the service, evidence requirements, available budget, and purchasing process before contracting.

See CDE’s Colorado tutoring report

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A few useful questions

What would you like to work through?

Start here, then bring the questions specific to your students and school.

Have a different question?

How would tutoring connect with Colorado learning goals?

Start with your school’s learning goals, curriculum sequence, and student work. Review proposed math or ELA lessons and the prerequisite support your students need. The activity on this page is illustrative, not a reviewed Colorado curriculum crosswalk. State-standard connections to existing grade-band samples can be added after curriculum-team review.

What has Cignition done with Colorado schools?

Our Denver partnership included a 2022–23 math program serving 1,044 students across 21 schools. In Brighton 27J, Overland Trail Middle School’s two-year experience shows how launch timing, attendance, and tutoring time changed alongside program results. Explore each case for its students, measures, and context.

Explore Denver → Explore Overland Trail →

Could READ Act funds support tutoring?

CDE lists tutoring to strengthen foundational reading among allowable uses of READ per-pupil intervention funds. Your district must confirm the proposed service, budget, materials, personnel, and applicable requirements before using an award.

Review Colorado’s READ funding guidance ↗

Is the earlier high-impact tutoring grant an open opportunity?

We have not identified an open new HITP application. CDE’s grant notice states that the program was not funded for 2025–26. Earlier award lists and program reports describe past funding. Contact CDE’s HITP team for current guidance before building a budget around that grant.

Explore CDE’s tutoring resources and contacts ↗

What should we check before using a literacy grant?

Start with your existing award and approved plan. Comprehensive ELG focuses on K–3 literacy, while CLSD includes different age bands. Review allowable services, relevant CDE advisory lists, evidence requirements, and budget approval with the grant lead. Published award lists describe existing grantees and do not establish an open application.

Check Colorado’s ELG status and requirements ↗

What if I’m looking for help for my own child?

This page focuses on school and district programs. For individual support, explore Cignition’s one-to-one math and ELA tutoring for families.

Explore Family Plans →

Your school’s next step

Let’s plan around
your students.

Planning around READ plans, mathematics intervention, and consistent tutoring time? Request curriculum examples, implementation details, evidence, or funding information for your Colorado school before deciding whether to book a call.

On our contact page, choose “Another question” for an information request or “School or district tutoring” to explore a program.

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Looking for support for your child? Explore Family Plans