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High-dosage tutoring.
Built with Ohio schools.

Live, small-group virtual tutoring in K–12 math and ELA. Ohio schools have helped shape our work since 2023. Explore statewide math and ELA results, foundational reading progress, and the educators behind the partnerships. Then plan high-dosage tutoring around your students’ next steps.

Our work in Ohio

Ohio state silhouette
Local relationships.
Shared commitment to students.

What Ohio is prioritizing

State priorities.
Focused support.

Reading improvement plans. Additional math and ELA support. Consistent tutoring time that connects with the instruction students receive every day.

Explore Ohio funding

Official sources checked November 9, 2026

Reading. Make the improvement plan actionable.

Ohio’s emphasis

Ohio’s Reading Improvement and Monitoring Plans connect identified reading needs with intervention and high-dosage tutoring. Science-of-reading expectations shape the literacy instruction students receive.

The Cignition connection

Review the skills, proposed lessons, recurring schedule, and progress communication with your literacy team. Keep the school’s diagnostic, plan, family-notification, and reporting responsibilities clearly assigned.

Explore Ohio’s RIMP and tutoring guidance ↗

Math and ELA. Respond to the assessed need.

Ohio’s emphasis

Ohio’s academic intervention law calls for evidence-based services for qualifying students in math, ELA, or both. Support must connect with classroom instruction and supplement existing instruction and services.

The Cignition connection

Identify the priority skills and prerequisite knowledge. Review how proposed tutoring tasks help students access grade-level work, then agree on the evidence your school team will use to adjust instruction.

Review Ohio’s academic intervention requirements ↗

Dosage and continuity. Make the schedule work.

Ohio’s emphasis

Ohio defines high-dosage tutoring opportunities as at least three days per week or 50 hours over 36 weeks. Its academic intervention law also emphasizes continuity with the same tutor where practicable.

The Cignition connection

Protect recurring time and plan for devices, a suitable space, onsite support, and a school contact. Review the intended schedule and attendance information together so participation supports the instructional plan.

Explore Ohio’s tutoring guidance ↗

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 Ohio connection · A closer look at instruction

From a learning need to the work students do.

Ohio’s emphasis on reading improvement plans and consistent math and ELA tutoring 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.

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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 Ohio 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 →

Cignition in Ohio

Ohio partnerships.
Progress worth exploring.

35 schools. 2,129 students enrolled.

2023–24 statewide program · K–12 math & ELA

From Lima and Batavia to Ohio Connections Academy, our Ohio partnerships span different communities and school settings. Across the 2023–24 and 2024–25 statewide programs, school teams connected additional math and ELA instruction with students’ learning.

“A seventh grader said she was excited to take the reading diagnostic because she felt she was going to do really well, thanks to what she was learning in tutoring with Cignition.”

Miranda Meffley
Instructional Coach
Lima City Schools

For a new Ohio 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.

Math & ELA · 2024–25

44.6%

Average growth from baseline on program mastery checks in the statewide implementation.

Explore the 2024–25 results

Foundational literacy · 2023–24

17.8 months

Average program-aligned reading growth among students receiving 40–50 tutoring hours, alongside classroom instruction.

Explore the literacy results

Separate program years and measures. These are program results, not state-test proficiency rates or a prediction for another school.

Growth schools could track.
A second statewide program year.

In 2024–25, Cignition partnered with Ohio schools for a second statewide year of math and ELA tutoring, building on the schedules, relationships, and implementation learning developed in 2023–24.

A routine schools could sustain

Returning partners brought practical experience with grouping, scheduling, and school contacts into the second year. Local teams could build on routines they had already established.

Connected with classroom learning

Schools integrated tutoring into their master schedules and used attendance, tutor feedback, and progress information to support conversations about students’ next steps.

Among the Ohio schools and districts we’ve supported

Ohio Connections Academy Lima City Schools Amherst Exempted Village Schools Batavia Local Schools Delaware City Schools Fort Frye Local School District Field Local School District Zane Trace Local Schools Orrville City Schools Wheelersburg Local School District Rossford Exempted Village Mohawk Local Schools

Selected partners from the 2023–24 statewide program. Select a logo to visit the school or district’s website in a new tab.

A partnership, in their words

“Cignition demonstrated the capacity to provide high-quality virtual tutoring services with evidence of student engagement and academic progress. We appreciate their partnership and support of our students and would welcome the opportunity to work with them again in the future.”

Stephanie Nickles, M.Ed., NBCT
Principal of Curriculum and Instruction
Ohio Connections Academy

Read the 2024–25 Ohio case study

Ohio funding landscape

Understand the investment.
Find a relevant pathway.

Explore Title I-A, Disadvantaged Pupil Impact Aid, and eligible EOEC awards. Also review Ohio After School’s delivery restrictions before planning virtual services.

Review Ohio’s current approved tutoring directory

Selected federal funding for Ohio

FY 2026 · Published statewide awards

$45.5M

21st Century Community Learning Centers

Out-of-school-time enrichment. Delivery restrictions apply.

View funding source ↗

Read the OHIO 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. Each program has separate eligibility and allowable-use rules. Ohio After School’s FY28 guidance excludes virtual student activities; see the pathway below. Confirm local balances and the applicable award rules.

Ohio funding pathways

Funding reviewed November 10, 2026

Additional academic support.
Start with your school’s plan.

Ongoing formula funding · Local eligibility and plan apply

Who / what it supports

Ohio’s Title I programs support eligible schools and students through approved schoolwide or targeted assistance activities.

Where tutoring could fit

Review additional reading or math instruction against the school’s identified needs and One Plan. Confirm which students can be served under the program model.

Practical next step: Ask your federal programs and finance teams to confirm the allocation, available balance, reservations, approved activities, spending period, and purchasing process.

Explore Ohio’s Title I guidance ↗

Ohio · Program fit & purchasing

Start with fit.
Plan the details.

Cignition is listed in Ohio’s current High-Quality Tutoring Vendor Directory for virtual K–12 mathematics and English language arts. The listing establishes a specific state-recognized option for schools evaluating providers.

Have your district confirm authorized funding, available funds, evidence requirements, tutor qualifications, spending periods, purchasing, and student-data protections for the proposed service.

For reading initiatives, check any separate DEW-approved instructional materials or intervention program requirements. Provider approval and curriculum approval answer different questions.

View Cignition in Ohio’s tutoring directory

Ask about purchasing

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?

Is Cignition an approved Ohio tutoring vendor?

Cignition appears in Ohio’s current High-Quality Tutoring Vendor Directory for virtual K–12 mathematics and ELA. The district still reviews instructional fit, the proposed schedule, local purchasing, and any funding-specific requirements.

View Ohio’s current tutoring directory ↗

Can tutoring connect with a student’s RIMP?

Review the student’s identified reading needs, proposed instruction, and recurring schedule with your literacy team. Confirm the plan’s dosage, materials, family communication, monitoring, and reporting requirements rather than assuming a standard tutoring package fulfills them all.

Review Ohio’s RIMP guidance ↗

Could DPIA or an EOEC award support the program?

Potentially, when the proposed activity meets the specific funding source’s current requirements. Ask your grants and finance teams to review the allocation or award, students served, approved plan and budget, evidence requirements, allowable costs, and purchasing before making a commitment.

Review Ohio’s funding considerations ↗

How do you connect with our curriculum?

Share the learning sequence, classroom materials, and student work your team uses. We can review proposed lessons and prerequisite support together. Existing grade-band samples illustrate the tutoring approach and do not establish comprehensive coverage of Ohio’s standards.

Browse math and ELA samples →

What do the Ohio program results measure?

The 44.6% figure describes average growth from baseline on math and ELA mastery checks in the 2024–25 Ohio statewide program. It is specific to that implementation and measure, rather than a state-test result or a prediction for a new school.

Read the Ohio statewide case study →

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

This page focuses on school and district programs. Cignition also offers live, one-to-one math and ELA tutoring for families. Explore Family Plans for individual support.

Explore Family Plans →

Your school’s next step

Let’s plan around
your students.

Planning around reading improvement plans and consistent math and ELA tutoring? Request curriculum examples, implementation details, evidence, or funding information for your Ohio 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