Title I, Part A
Support for schools serving students from low-income families.
View funding source ↗Missouri · Schools & districts
High-impact tutoring for Missouri schools.
Live, small-group virtual tutoring in K–12 math and ELA. Connect Missouri’s Reading Success Plans, math learning goals, and tiered supports with focused instruction, student discussion, and a plan your school can support.
A closer look at Missouri
Your state’s priorities.
Your students’ next steps.
What Missouri is prioritizing
State priorities.
Focused support.
Reading support tied to a specific skill. Math instruction that makes reasoning visible. A coordinated plan for using student evidence to decide what comes next.
Official sources checked November 5, 2026
01Reading Success Plans. Start with the skill.
Missouri’s emphasis
Missouri’s Read, Lead, Exceed initiative emphasizes evidence-based reading instruction grounded in the science of reading. Its updated Reading Success Plan guidance connects identified reading needs with targeted goals, intervention, progress monitoring, and family communication. Separate guidance addresses continued support in grades 6–12.
The Cignition connection
Share the specific reading skill your students need to develop and your school’s instructional approach. Review the proposed lessons and tutor preparation with your literacy team. Your school leads assessment, required plans, and reporting; tutoring should connect with that work.
02Math reasoning. Make the thinking visible.
Missouri’s emphasis
Missouri’s math resources connect grade-level expectations with mathematical practices. Current professional learning emphasizes early numeracy, multiplicative reasoning in grades 3–5, and models for relationships and functional thinking in grades 6–12.
The Cignition connection
Bring the learning target and student work. Review how visual models, purposeful questions, and student explanations could help address a prerequisite skill or deepen understanding alongside classroom instruction.
03DCI-MTSS. Coordinate the next step.
Missouri’s emphasis
Missouri’s District Continuous Improvement work connects academic and behavioral practices with data-informed decisions. Its DCI-MTSS initiative emphasizes stronger literacy outcomes, including for students with disabilities.
The Cignition connection
Identify the academic need tutoring would address within your school’s supports. Agree on student groups, recurring session time, and how student work and tutor observations will inform team decisions. Your school retains responsibility for assessments, specialized services, and required plans.
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 Missouri connection · A closer look at instruction
From a learning need to the work students do.
Missouri’s emphasis on Reading Success Plans and mathematics reasoning 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 Missouri 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 Missouri school could connect focused reading instruction with a school-led Reading Success Plan and a clear 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 Missouri school’s Reading Success Plans and mathematics reasoning.
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.
Missouri funding landscape
Understand the investment.
Find a relevant pathway.
Explore Title I-A, rural-district funding, and current after-school awards. Start with the students and instructional need, then confirm the approved use and available funds.
Selected federal funding for Missouri
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 MISSOURI row and Fiscal Year 2026 column in each federal award table. Links highlight the row in supporting browsers. 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.
Missouri funding pathways
Funding reviewed November 10, 2026Additional instruction.
Start with the school’s plan.
Ongoing federal formula funding · Local plan and use required
Who / what it supports
Missouri provides schoolwide and targeted-assistance Title I-A guidance. Schoolwide programs address the educational program as a whole; targeted assistance serves students identified as having the greatest academic need.
Where tutoring could fit
Review proposed math or ELA support against your school’s needs assessment, instructional plan, participation rules, and evidence requirements. Confirm how the service would supplement the instruction students receive.
Practical next step: Ask your federal programs lead to review staffing and certification requirements, required set-asides, the approved budget, purchasing, and available funds.
Review Missouri’s Title I-A guidance ↗Rural schools.
A route worth checking.
Ongoing REAP programs · Current district eligibility and award required
Who / what it supports
Small, rural districts may qualify for SRSA awards administered directly by the U.S. Department of Education. Missouri DESE administers RLIS subgrants for districts meeting rural and low-income criteria.
Where tutoring could fit
Eligible districts can review academic support under the programs’ authorized Title I-A uses. Connect the proposed service with your instructional plan, applicable funding rules, and the current award budget.
Practical next step: Have your federal programs lead confirm current eligibility, which REAP program applies, available funds, and allowable costs. Rural location alone does not establish eligibility.
Explore Missouri’s REAP funding routes ↗After-school learning.
Build on an existing award.
Current 21st CCLC grantees · Approved program and budget required
Who / what it supports
Missouri’s current recipient list includes a 21st CCLC cohort awarded for 2026–27. These grants support academic assistance, enrichment, and meaningful family engagement outside regular school hours.
Where tutoring could fit
An existing grantee can review tutoring as one component of its broader approved program. Missouri’s guidelines include high-impact tutoring among possible services; tutoring alone is not a complete eligible program.
Practical next step: This route is for current recipients, not a new grant application. Confirm the service, virtual delivery, staffing, site eligibility, budget, and purchasing with the grant team.
View Missouri’s current after-school recipients ↗Missouri · Program fit & purchasing
Start with fit.
Plan the details.
Review proposed lessons against your Reading Success Plan goals, where applicable, and your classroom learning sequence.
Match the service to the funding route. For Title I-A or REAP, confirm the approved activity, student eligibility, staffing requirements, and available district allocation. For an existing 21st CCLC award, tutoring must fit a broader program that also includes enrichment and family engagement.
Before purchasing, have your program and finance leads review virtual delivery, local supervision, student-data protections, and procurement. Funding eligibility does not by itself establish state approval of a provider or its curriculum.
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 Missouri learning goals?
Begin with Missouri’s Learning Standards, your curriculum sequence, and student work. Review proposed Cignition lessons, prerequisite support, and how progress will be discussed. The grade 7 activity on this page illustrates one mathematical idea. It is not a reviewed curriculum crosswalk. Existing math and ELA grade-band samples can help start a more specific instructional conversation.
How would tutoring support a Reading Success Plan?
Start with the identified skill, the student’s growth goal, and the instruction already in place. Review proposed lessons and tutor preparation with your literacy team. Missouri’s guidance connects targeted intervention with progress checks and family communication. The school retains responsibility for required assessments, the RSP, and state reporting.
Does reading support continue beyond elementary school?
Yes. Missouri publishes separate Reading Success Plan guidance for grades 6–12, including continued support for students whose significant reading deficiency has not been remedied. Your school should use that guidance to determine the student’s requirements and instructional needs rather than assuming the elementary process applies unchanged.
What needs to be in place for live virtual tutoring?
Agree on the students, instructional goals, recurring session time, and appropriate groups. Students need working devices, connectivity, a supervised learning space, and a local point of contact. Plan how attendance, student work, and progress information will inform your school’s next decisions. Review the funding and staffing requirements that apply to your proposed program.
Can a current after-school grantee include tutoring?
Missouri’s 21st CCLC program includes tutoring within a broader program that must also offer enrichment and family engagement. Current awardees should review their approved program, site eligibility, staffing, virtual delivery, budget, and procurement before adding a service. The current competition is closed; the official program page provides application materials for reference and planning.
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.
Your school’s next step
Let’s plan around
your students.
Planning around Reading Success Plans and mathematics reasoning? Request curriculum examples, implementation details, evidence, or funding information for your Missouri 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.