Title I, Part A
Support for schools serving students from low-income families.
View funding source ↗Pennsylvania · Schools & districts
High-dosage tutoring for Pennsylvania schools.
Live, small-group virtual tutoring in K–12 math and ELA. Connect your students’ needs with purposeful instruction, curriculum, and a supported school partnership.
A closer look at your state
Your state’s priorities.
Your students’ next steps.
What Pennsylvania is prioritizing
State priorities.
Focused support.
Where is Pennsylvania placing emphasis—and how could tutoring contribute to the work your school is already doing?
Explore Pennsylvania funding ↓
Official sources checked October 29, 2026
01Structured literacy
Pennsylvania’s emphasis
State legislation addresses K–3 curriculum, screening, and intervention, with key implementation requirements beginning in 2027–28.
The Cignition connection
Foundational literacy instruction includes explicit, systematic teaching and connected reading. Review the proposed materials and support alongside your school’s reading plan.
02Targeted intervention
Pennsylvania’s emphasis
Pennsylvania’s MTSS framework connects standards, instruction, assessment, and student needs to help schools match support with learners.
The Cignition connection
Live small-group math and ELA sessions add instructional capacity. School information, student responses, and progress checks can inform instruction and review conversations.
03Sustaining academic support
Pennsylvania’s emphasis
Ready to Learn permits specified tutoring, remediation, and MTSS uses. Continuing 21st CCLC awards support programs during non-school hours.
The Cignition connection
Discuss a tutoring plan around your learners, schedule, and goals, then confirm the relevant funding and purchasing requirements.
Our curriculum. Your instructional goals.
From a learning target
to student thinking.
Alignment becomes more useful when you can see the connection: what students need to learn, the content they work with, and the thinking a tutor helps make visible.
The Pennsylvania connection · A closer look at instruction
From a learning need to the work students do.
Pennsylvania’s emphasis on structured literacy, tiered support, and classroom connections 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 Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania school could protect additional foundational reading time within its tiered supports and connect the work with classroom instruction. 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 Pennsylvania school’s structured literacy, tiered support, and classroom connections.
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.
Pennsylvania funding landscape
Understand the investment.
Find a relevant pathway.
Start with the statewide picture, then examine the program rules and allocations that matter for your school.
Selected federal funding for Pennsylvania
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 PENNSYLVANIA 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 district’s available balance and approved use with its program lead.
State and Pennsylvania-administered pathways
Funding reviewed November 10, 2026Ready to Learn Block Grant
2026–27 allocation · Application deadline passed
Who / what it supports
Foundation funding serves school districts and eligible charters; Adequacy serves qualifying districts. The October 16, 2026 Foundation/Adequacy application deadline has passed.
Where tutoring could fit
Permitted uses include specified tutoring, remediation, and MTSS support. The Tax Equity component serves different purposes and should not be treated as tutoring funding.
Practical next step: Ask your business office whether an existing allocation and approved plan could support the proposed program.
Review official program details ↗21st Century Community Learning Centers
Existing grantees · New applications closed
Who / what it supports
Pennsylvania administers continuing federal awards for academic enrichment during non-school hours, particularly for students attending high-poverty and low-performing schools.
Where tutoring could fit
Tutoring may fit an eligible grantee’s after-school or summer program. This is not a new, currently open application round.
Practical next step: Check whether your school or local program is a current grantee and whether tutoring fits its approved scope.
Review official program details ↗PA Structured Literacy Grants
2026 awards issued · Expense scope must be checked
Who / what it supports
Awards support literacy implementation, including materials, screening, professional learning, planning, and reading systems.
Where tutoring could fit
The published uses do not establish an open grant or blanket eligibility for buying tutoring services. A proposed expense needs confirmation against the award’s scope.
Practical next step: If your LEA received an award, review its approved uses with your literacy and grants leads before treating it as a tutoring pathway.
Review official program details ↗Ohio · Statewide program · 2024–25
Implementation.
A closer look.
Explore how a multi-district tutoring program approached participation, learning, and implementation. Bring the questions it raises back to your own school’s context.
Pennsylvania · Program fit & purchasing
Start with fit.
Plan the details.
Review proposed reading or math lessons alongside classroom instruction and your tiered supports. For foundational reading, include your structured literacy approach and reading plan.
Bring instructional, program, and business-office leads into the funding decision. For Ready to Learn Foundation or Adequacy funds, check the approved allocation and spending category for tutoring or intervention. The Tax Equity supplement has a different purpose and should not be treated as tutoring funding.
Check the available balance, allowable service, spending period, staffing and materials requirements, local purchasing, and student-data protections before contracting. A funding allocation does not itself approve 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 connect with PA Core learning goals?
Cignition uses its own curriculum. An alignment review connects lesson content and learning targets with PA expectations, school goals, and identified prerequisite needs. Pennsylvania-specific crosswalks must be completed and reviewed before being represented as approved alignment documents.
What does our school need to provide?
A school contact, student information needed for planning, a recurring schedule, appropriate devices and connectivity, and onsite staff to help students join sessions and stay engaged.
How are students grouped?
Grouping can consider grade level, instructional needs, available assessment information, and school input. Proposed groups and the schedule should be reviewed during program planning.
What information can our team review?
Attendance, tutor-reported participation, student work, and learning progress provide different views of a program. Review these alongside classroom knowledge and your school’s own assessment information.
Can Title I funds support tutoring?
Potentially, when the proposed use meets applicable requirements. The intended students, schoolwide or targeted-assistance model, school plan, and local purchasing process all matter. Confirm the planned use with your federal programs lead.
What if I’m looking for help for my own child?
Cignition also offers one-to-one math and ELA tutoring for families. Explore support for your child ↗
Your school’s next step
Let’s plan around
your students.
Planning around structured literacy, tiered support, and classroom connections? Request curriculum examples, implementation details, evidence, or funding information for your Pennsylvania 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.