Title I, Part A
Support for schools serving students from low-income families.
View funding source ↗Florida · Schools & districts
High-impact tutoring for Florida schools.
Live, small-group virtual tutoring in K–12 math and ELA. Connect Florida’s B.E.S.T. learning goals with focused instruction, student discussion, and support shaped around your school’s next step.
A closer look at Florida
Your state’s priorities.
Your students’ next steps.
What Florida is prioritizing
State priorities.
Focused support.
Reading instruction grounded in evidence. Earlier response to math needs. Progress information that helps the school team choose what happens next.
Official sources checked November 9, 2026
01Literacy. Connect the plan with the instruction.
Florida’s emphasis
Just Read, Florida! emphasizes oral language, phonological awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. District Comprehensive Evidence-Based Reading Plans connect assessment, curriculum, instruction, and professional learning across schools and grade levels.
The Cignition connection
Start with the reading skills your team has identified. Review proposed lessons, explicit foundational-skill instruction where needed, and progress communication alongside your school’s reading plan.
02Mathematics. Respond before a student falls further behind.
Florida’s emphasis
Florida requires prompt, systematic and explicit instruction for K–4 students with substantial math deficiencies. Support may include daily targeted small groups or supplemental evidence-based interventions before or after school, with monitoring and adjustment as needs change.
The Cignition connection
Identify the specific concepts and skills that need attention. Review the proposed tutoring tasks, instructor qualifications, and progress evidence with your school team so additional instruction supports its intervention plan.
03FAST. Turn progress information into a next step.
Florida’s emphasis
Florida’s FAST assessments provide screening and progress monitoring three times a year. They cover VPK–grade 10 ELA reading and VPK–grade 8 mathematics and connect with the state’s B.E.S.T. standards.
The Cignition connection
Bring school assessment information, classroom work, and teacher observations into program planning. Use tutoring observations and program measures to inform the next conversation, alongside the school’s own evidence.
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 Florida connection · A closer look at instruction
From a learning need to the work students do.
Florida’s emphasis on B.E.S.T. learning goals and targeted reading and math support provides context for reviewing this sample. Examine how a learner represents quantities, compares ideas, and explains an answer.
Compare the task and prerequisites with your classroom sequence and student work.
Explore a sample lesson
Elementary mathematics
Math · K–5 sample. Open the student lesson to examine the tasks for yourself.
Open the elementary mathematics sample ↗
What should we look for?
Consider how a learner represents quantities, compares ideas, and explains an answer. 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 Florida 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
Cignition
in Florida.
Cignition is a virtual tutoring partner with Florida Tutoring Advantage. Administered by the UF Lastinger Center for Learning, the initiative connects eligible K–5 public school students with reading and math support during the school day.
At Dayspring Academy’s Angeline, Harmony, and Jazz campuses, a ten-week math pilot supported students in grades 2–5. School teams identified the topics and student groups, with recurring virtual sessions creating time to work through problems and explain thinking.
View Cignition’s Florida Tutoring Advantage listing ↗
For a new Florida 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.
DAYSPRING ACADEMY · SPRING 2025
GRADES 2–5 · TEN-WEEK MATH PILOT
46.6%
Average internal
Progress Growth Score
91.1%
Attendance
Source: Cignition’s Dayspring pilot recap. Progress Growth Score is an internal instructional measure, not FAST or state-assessment proficiency. Results describe this pilot and are not a forecast for another school.
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 Florida school’s B.E.S.T. learning goals and targeted reading and math support.
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.
Florida funding landscape
Understand the investment.
Find a relevant pathway.
Florida Tutoring Advantage offers a state-specific route for selected eligible students. Title I and approved district reading budgets provide other planning routes. Existing 21st CCLC grantees can review tutoring within their broader out-of-school programs.
Selected federal funding for Florida
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 FLORIDA 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.
Florida funding pathways
Funding reviewed November 10, 2026A Florida-specific pathway.
Start with eligibility.
Ongoing state program · Annual participation and funding conditions apply
Who / what it supports
Florida Tutoring Advantage supports eligible K–5 public school students with reading or math deficiencies. The program currently prioritizes FAST PM2 and/or PM3 Level 1 students before Level 2 students.
Where Cignition fits
Cignition appears on the current virtual tutoring partner list. The administrator describes services as no cost to participating districts, with annual reapplication subject to funding and program requirements.
Practical next step: Ask the Florida Tutoring Advantage team about current participation, student eligibility, provider matching, and available capacity. A listing does not guarantee a funded placement.
Review Florida Tutoring Advantage participation ↗Additional learning time.
Build from the school’s plan.
Ongoing formula funding · District approval required
Who / what it supports
Florida’s Title I-A programs provide resources for additional instructional time and other services supporting student achievement. Schoolwide and targeted assistance models have different service requirements.
Where tutoring could fit
Review supplemental math or reading instruction against the school’s needs assessment, program model, and approved activities. The grants team determines eligible students, allowable costs, and documentation.
Practical next step: Confirm your district’s allocation, available balance, approved plan, spending period, and purchasing process.
Review Florida’s Title I guidance ↗A planned literacy investment.
Confirm the budget and fit.
District-authorized budget · Not a separate open grant
What the state plan includes
Florida law allows district reading instruction plans to include additional intensive instruction and reading tutoring. Plans must identify the school-year expenditures for their components.
Where tutoring could fit
Ask the district to identify an authorized funding source and confirm whether the proposed service fits its approved plan. Intensive reading interventions carry specific credential and supervision requirements; general tutoring eligibility does not settle those requirements.
Practical next step: Review the current district CERP, proposed tasks, instructor qualifications, budget, and procurement rules before committing to services.
Explore Florida’s current district reading plans ↗After school and summer.
Work within an active award.
Existing-grantee route · No open new competition verified
Who / what it supports
Florida’s 21st CCLC programs combine academic enrichment outside school hours with broader activities and family educational services. Reading or math tutoring may be an academic component of the approved program.
Where tutoring could fit
An active grantee should review a proposed tutoring component against its award, budget, schedule, staffing, and delivery rules. Confirm virtual delivery with the program administrator before including it.
Practical next step: Confirm the grantee’s available funds, approved activities, and any proposed virtual component with the program administrator. An existing award does not automatically approve a vendor.
Explore Florida’s 21st CCLC program ↗Florida · Program fit & purchasing
Start with fit.
Plan the details.
For Florida Tutoring Advantage, confirm participation and provider matching with the program team. For a district-funded partnership, agree on students, skill focus, recurring time, progress communication, and onsite support for virtual sessions.
Confirm the funding source, available balance, service scope, tutor qualifications, student-data protections, and purchasing process. Florida’s intensive reading interventions have specific credential and supervision rules. Prior program participation does not by itself establish eligibility for every school or funding stream.
A few useful questions
What would you like to work through?
Start here, then bring the questions specific to your students and school.
Is Cignition a Florida Tutoring Advantage partner?
Yes. Cignition is listed among the program’s current virtual tutoring partners. The initiative’s live reading and math tutoring serves eligible K–5 public school students. Confirm participation, provider matching, and current capacity with the program administrator.
What Florida experience can we look at?
The Dayspring Academy math pilot supported grades 2–5 at Angeline, Harmony, and Jazz. The spring 2025 pilot ran for ten weeks. The figures shown here describe Cignition’s internal progress and attendance measures, rather than FAST results or a prediction for another school.
Does Florida Tutoring Advantage cover every K–12 program?
Its live reading and math tutoring pathway is focused on eligible K–5 public school students. Cignition’s broader K–12 offering is separate from that program’s eligibility and funding. We can discuss an appropriate district-funded plan for other grades.
How do you connect with Florida’s B.E.S.T. standards?
Share your learning sequence, classroom materials, and student work. We can review proposed Cignition lessons, prerequisite support, and reporting. Existing grade-band samples illustrate the tutoring approach; they do not establish comprehensive coverage of Florida’s benchmarks.
Can we use our reading-plan budget for tutoring?
Florida’s reading instruction plans may include reading tutoring and planned expenditures. The district must identify an authorized funding source and confirm allowable use, service fit, instructor qualifications, and purchasing requirements. Intensive reading interventions have specific credential and supervision rules.
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 B.E.S.T. learning goals and targeted reading and math support? Request curriculum examples, implementation details, evidence, or funding information for your Florida 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.