Title I, Part A
Support for schools serving students from low-income families.
View funding source ↗Delaware · Schools & districts
High-dosage tutoring for Delaware schools.
Live, small-group virtual tutoring in K–12 math and ELA. Connect Delaware’s early literacy, mathematical reasoning, and tiered-support priorities with focused instruction and a practical plan for your district or charter school.
A closer look at Delaware
Your state’s priorities.
Your students’ next steps.
What Delaware is prioritizing
State priorities.
Focused support.
Strong reading foundations. Mathematics that students can explain. Additional support connected to classroom learning. Build tutoring around the priorities your Delaware school is putting into practice.
Official sources checked November 9, 2026
01Early literacy. Connect the next skill with daily instruction.
Delaware’s emphasis
Delaware’s early literacy strategy emphasizes science-of-reading materials, early identification of reading needs, sustained educator support, and family communication. The current Birth through Grade 3 plan connects these efforts with stronger daily classroom practice.
The Cignition connection
Use the school’s screening information and classroom evidence to identify a focused reading need. Review proposed Cignition lessons, explicit foundational-skills instruction where appropriate, and progress communication alongside the school’s literacy approach.
02Mathematics. Connect understanding, fluency, and reasoning.
Delaware’s emphasis
Delaware’s mathematics guidance gives conceptual understanding and procedural skill equal importance, with learning grounded in real-world problem solving. Districts and charter schools select their classroom curriculum within the state’s learning expectations.
The Cignition connection
Start with the learning sequence your students are using. Connect visual models, purposeful questions, and opportunities to explain with the specific mathematics they need next, including prerequisite support that keeps grade-level learning in view.
03DE-MTSS. Make additional support part of one plan.
Delaware’s emphasis
Delaware’s MTSS framework coordinates academic and nonacademic needs through universal screening, team decisions, evidence-based interventions, and ongoing progress information. Collaboration with educators and families is part of the process.
The Cignition connection
Define tutoring’s role in the school’s existing support system. Agree on recurring time, local support for virtual sessions, and how participation and learning evidence will inform the team’s next instructional decision.
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 Delaware connection · A closer look at instruction
From a learning need to the work students do.
Delaware’s emphasis on early literacy, mathematical reasoning, and DE-MTSS provides context for reviewing this sample. Examine how a learner connects sounds and print, responds to prompts, and practices a foundational reading skill.
Compare the task and prerequisites with your classroom sequence and student work.
Explore a sample lesson
Elementary literacy
ELA · K–5 sample. Open the student lesson to examine the tasks for yourself.
Open the elementary literacy sample ↗
What should we look for?
Consider how a learner connects sounds and print, responds to prompts, and practices a foundational reading skill. 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 Delaware and is not a comprehensive state standards alignment. For a specific alignment question, share the standard and classroom materials with our team.
Inside a school partnership
A shared plan.
People to keep
it moving.
Cignition brings live virtual instruction, purpose-built lessons, a dedicated program manager, and participation and learning information. For example, a Delaware school could add focused reading time within DE-MTSS, with classroom evidence guiding the first learning target. Your school provides protected time, technology, and local support. This is a planning illustration; service eligibility and the agreed scope shape any partnership.
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Turn the instructional need into a workable plan.
Your school team
Identify the students and reading or math goals, share classroom and screening information, and protect recurring time. Your team names an onsite contact and checks devices, connectivity, and the proposed use of school funds.
The Cignition team
Your program manager coordinates planning with your school. Cignition prepares tutor assignments, small groups, instructional materials, and launch arrangements around your Delaware school’s early literacy, mathematical reasoning, and DE-MTSS.
Keep the session focused and students connected.
Your school team
Help students join on time, maintain a supervised learning space, and support participation or connection issues. Classroom teachers continue core instruction; tutoring provides additional targeted learning time.
The Cignition team
Experienced, carefully vetted tutors lead live virtual instruction using Cignition’s purpose-built curriculum, questions, models, and discussion. They respond to student work and record attendance, participation, and learning information.
Use the information. Keep the conversation going.
Your school team
Share classroom observations and school assessment context, review participation with your onsite contact, and identify questions about student learning or the routine.
The Cignition team
Your program manager shares participation and learning information and coordinates follow-up. Cignition’s instructional and implementation teams use that information with your school to consider grouping, learning targets, or scheduling adjustments.
Delaware funding landscape
Understand the investment.
Find a relevant pathway.
Delaware’s Opportunity Fund is a state-specific route to review alongside Title I. Existing 21st CCLC programs offer a separate out-of-school pathway. Match the students, instructional purpose, and service model with an approved local plan and available funds.
Selected federal funding for Delaware
FY 2026 · Published statewide awards
Title II, Part A
Educator effectiveness and instructional capacity.
View funding source ↗Title III, Part A
English-language acquisition and support for English learners.
View funding source ↗21st Century Community Learning Centers
Academic enrichment during non-school hours.
View funding source ↗Read the DELAWARE row and Fiscal Year 2026 column in each federal award table. These are statewide allocations, not unspent local funds or a dedicated tutoring budget. Title II generally supports educator capacity. Confirm your district’s allocation, allowable use, and available balance before planning an expense.
Delaware funding pathways
Funding reviewed November 10, 2026Additional learning time.
Start with the school’s needs.
Ongoing formula funding · District or charter approval required
Who / what it supports
Delaware administers Title I-A to support students from low-income families in meeting state academic standards. Schoolwide and targeted-assistance programs have different planning and student-service requirements.
Where tutoring could fit
Review supplemental reading or mathematics instruction against the school’s identified needs and approved Title I program. Confirm the students, instructional purpose, evidence requirements, and virtual service arrangements before selecting a provider.
Practical next step: Ask the district or charter’s federal programs team to confirm the available balance, allowable costs, service scope, purchasing process, and required documentation.
Explore Delaware’s Title I guidance ↗Support the students.
Work from the approved plan.
Ongoing state funding · School-specific expenditure plan
Who / what it supports
Delaware’s Opportunity Fund enhances services for English learners and students from low-income households in public districts and charter schools. State law permits contractual services and other additional supports, with separate restrictions for the mental-health and reading allocation.
Where tutoring could fit
Ask whether supplemental reading or math tutoring fits the students and services in the school’s expenditure plan. Keep the proposed cost within the correct allocation and preserve the fund’s supplemental role.
Practical next step: Confirm the school’s allocation, remaining funds, expenditure plan, any required amendment, and local procurement. A permitted cost category does not automatically approve a specific tutoring service.
Review Delaware’s Opportunity Fund rules ↗Learning beyond the school day.
Partner with an active program.
Existing award pathway · Grantee approval required
Who / what it supports
Delaware’s 21st CCLC programs combine afterschool and summer academic support, enrichment, and family engagement. The state identifies tutoring as an academic activity and requires a school partnership with a community-based or faith-based organization.
Where tutoring could fit
An active grantee can review focused math or reading tutoring within its broader approved program. Confirm the participating students, service hours, virtual delivery, onsite support, and how the service connects with classroom learning.
Practical next step: Start with the current grantee and grants lead. Verify the award term, approved budget, available balance, and any required amendment. This is an existing-program route, not an advertised open grant round.
Explore Delaware’s 21st CCLC programs ↗Delaware · Program fit & purchasing
Start with fit.
Plan the details.
Define tutoring’s role within DE-MTSS using the students’ learning needs and your classroom materials.
Bring instructional, finance, and purchasing leads into the same conversation. For Opportunity Funding, confirm the school’s expenditure plan, student population, correct allocation, and supplemental purpose. For an existing 21st CCLC award, confirm the complete program design and any required approval for the proposed service.
Review proposed lessons, evidence, tutor qualifications, student-data protections, and local purchasing requirements. Eligibility must be established for the proposed service.
A few useful questions
What would you like to work through?
Start here, then bring the questions specific to your students and school.
How would tutoring support Delaware’s early literacy work?
Start with the reading need identified by the school team and its classroom approach. Discuss targeted foundational-skills instruction, proposed lessons, recurring practice, and progress updates within the school’s literacy and MTSS plan.
Could Opportunity Funding support tutoring?
Potentially, when the proposed supplemental service serves the eligible students and fits the school’s expenditure plan and applicable allocation. Delaware law includes contractual services as a cost category. Your district or charter must confirm the specific service, available funds, required approvals, and procurement.
Does every literacy grant pay for tutoring?
No. Delaware’s 2026–27 Bridge to Practice awards focus on educator professional learning, coaching, instructional materials, and leadership. They are not presented here as an open tutoring grant or an automatic way to purchase Cignition. Review each funding source’s approved activities before planning a service.
Can tutoring fit within an existing 21st CCLC program?
Tutoring is one of the academic supports Delaware identifies for these afterschool and summer programs. Work with the active grantee to confirm the award term, approved activities, available budget, virtual delivery, and any amendment or state approval required.
Can we review examples of your curriculum?
Yes. The Content Library includes math and ELA grade-band samples. Explore the instructional approach, then discuss the standards and curriculum connections your Delaware school needs. These samples do not establish a comprehensive state alignment crosswalk.
What if I’m looking for help for my own child?
This page focuses on school and district partnerships. For tutoring arranged directly by a family, explore Cignition’s family plans and discuss your child’s learning goals, grade level, and scheduling needs.
Your school’s next step
Let’s plan around
your students.
Planning around early literacy, mathematical reasoning, and DE-MTSS? Request curriculum examples, implementation details, evidence, or funding information for your Delaware 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.