Title I, Part A
Support for schools serving students from low-income families.
View funding source ↗Hawaiʻi · Schools & complex areas
High-impact tutoring for Hawaiʻi schools.
Live, small-group virtual tutoring in K–12 math and ELA. Connect Hawaiʻi’s reading and math goals with targeted instruction, experienced tutors, and support for your school’s implementation.
A closer look at Hawaiʻi
Your state’s priorities.
Your students’ next steps.
What Hawaiʻi is prioritizing
State priorities.
Focused support.
Reading by third grade. Math proficiency by eighth grade. Timely support when students need more time and instruction.
Official sources checked November 3, 2026
01Reading by third grade
Hawaiʻi’s emphasis
The 2023–29 plan prioritizes reading proficiency by the end of third grade, K–3 screening, and timely support for students who need it.
The Cignition connection
Discuss explicit foundational literacy instruction, connected reading, and the specific skills identified by your school’s screening and classroom evidence.
02Math proficiency by eighth grade
Hawaiʻi’s emphasis
The state plan targets math proficiency by the end of eighth grade, coherent K–8 instruction, screening, and support based on identified needs.
The Cignition connection
Target prerequisite gaps while keeping students engaged in grade-level reasoning. Use visual models, discussion, and explanations to inform the next instructional step.
03Participation, access, and belonging
Hawaiʻi’s emphasis
Regular attendance and a safe, nurturing, culturally responsive learning environment are priorities alongside academic progress.
The Cignition connection
Plan a dependable tutoring schedule, student access, and coordination with onsite staff. Review session participation alongside school context and build relationships that make room for students’ voices.
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 Hawaiʻi connection · A closer look at instruction
From a learning need to the work students do.
Hawaiʻi’s emphasis on reading by third grade and mathematics by eighth grade 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 Hawaiʻi 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 Hawaiʻi school could add targeted foundational reading time around its school plan, Hawaiʻi time zone, and local student access. 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 a recurring time. Your team identifies 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 the tutor assignment, small groups, instructional materials, and launch arrangements, with your goals, curriculum context, and Hawaiʻi time zone in view.
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, visual 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.
Hawaiʻi funding landscape
Understand the investment.
Find a relevant pathway.
Explore federal funding by category, then look at school budgets, literacy subgrants, and after-school opportunities administered in Hawaiʻi.
Selected federal funding for Hawaiʻi
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 HAWAII 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 school’s available balance and approved use with its program lead.
Hawaiʻi budgets and grant pathways
Funding reviewed November 10, 2026Weighted Student Formula
FY 2026–27 school allocations · Local financial planning
Who / what it supports
HIDOE allocates school operating funds using enrollment and student needs. Principals, with School Community Council input, develop annual financial plans.
Where tutoring could fit
Discuss targeted academic support within the school’s academic and financial plans. Confirm allowable costs, available balances, and purchasing requirements with your school’s budget lead.
Practical next step: Review your current school allocation and approved financial plan before committing funds.
Review official program details ↗Comprehensive Literacy State Development
$60M five-year award announced in 2024 · Complex-area subgrants
Who / what it supports
Hawaiʻi’s CLSD initiative supports evidence-based literacy from birth through grade 12. HIDOE awards subgrants to complex areas for approved literacy plans.
Where tutoring could fit
Services must support approved literacy activities. Ask your complex-area grant lead whether supplemental reading instruction fits the existing subgrant and current purchasing rules.
Practical next step: Confirm subgrantee participation, available balances, approved services, and whether a new application opportunity exists.
Review official program details ↗21st Century Community Learning Centers
Existing 2026–27 grantee cohorts · Ask about new competitions
Who / what it supports
Hawaiʻi’s 21st CCLC programs support academic enrichment outside the regular school day, particularly for students attending high-poverty and low-performing schools, with services for participating families.
Where tutoring could fit
Reading or math tutoring may fit an existing grantee’s approved after-school or summer program. This pathway does not establish funding for a school-day tutoring purchase.
Practical next step: Check current grantees, your school’s participation, the approved program scope, and the next competition with HIDOE’s Community Engagement Branch.
Review official program details ↗Hawaiʻi · Purchasing options
Plan the service.
Confirm the purchase.
Use your Hawaiʻi school’s academic and financial plans to define the proposed virtual tutoring service. Your school or complex-area team determines the purchasing process and whether the funding source permits that service. A statewide allocation does not authorize a purchase.
Confirm the scope, tutor qualifications, available balance, contract, background checks, and student-data protections before launch.
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 connect with Hawaiʻi learning goals?
Hawaiʻi uses Common Core expectations for math and ELA. Cignition uses its own purpose-built curriculum. Share your school’s learning goals, instructional sequence, and student work so we can examine proposed lessons and prerequisite support together. The grade-band sample illustrates selected instruction; it is not a comprehensive Hawaiʻi standards alignment.
How would sessions fit our Hawaiʻi school day?
Work through the proposed time in Hawaiʻi Standard Time, the school calendar, student grouping, and tutor availability before launch. Students need a suitable device, reliable internet, and a space where they can hear, speak, and participate. Clarify onsite support and attendance routines with the school team.
How would our Hawaiʻi school purchase tutoring?
Begin with the school’s academic and financial plans and the proposed service. Your school or complex-area team identifies the applicable purchasing process, available funding, required approvals, and contract terms. Cignition can provide information about the proposed virtual tutoring scope. This page does not establish a current statewide Cignition purchasing agreement or guarantee that a particular funding source can be used.
Can Title I or school funds support tutoring?
Potentially. The proposed services must fit the funding program’s allowable uses, identified student needs, and the applicable school plan. Review the proposal with your Title I or budget lead. A statewide award figure does not establish an available balance for your school.
Are the literacy and after-school grants open to new applicants?
This page describes the awarded CLSD initiative and existing 21st CCLC programs. An award announcement is not an open application round. Confirm current participation, remaining funds, approved activities, and any new competition directly with the relevant HIDOE program office.
What if I’m looking for help for my own child?
Cignition’s Family Plans offer live, one-to-one virtual tutoring for individual students. School funding and grant pathways have separate eligibility rules. Explore Family Plans →
Your school’s next step
Let’s plan around
your students.
Planning around reading by third grade and mathematics by eighth grade? Request curriculum examples, implementation details, evidence, or funding information for your Hawaiʻi 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.