Tutoring is what we do best.

We tutor everything, including math, science, humanities, languages, technology, organization and enrichment.

We have tutors for all subjects and all grades, from K-12 and beyond. Our tutors are passionate about their subjects of expertise, are effective communicators, and are genuinely invested in the success of their students.

Top 5 Reasons to have one-on-one sessions at BrainBoost

  1. You’ll see results at in areas that matter to you.
  2. We customize our tutoring to the learning profile of each student.
  3. You’ll join more than 1000 Vancouverites who’ve worked with us to accomplish their personal learning goals.
  4. Our tutors are experts at keeping you engaged, and bringing out your best performance.
  5. You’ll enjoy it!

We’ve been tutoring since 2002, and we’re really good at it. We hand select our tutoring team from the hundreds of applicants we review each year to ensure sessions are engaging and meaningful. We provide ongoing training in clinical education, educational psychology, and much more. Our case managers help kids find the tutor who will be the perfect fit. We also love when kids want to explore new and different things - like programming, ecology, or multi-media, to name a few - and we can set up tutoring around any interest.

We also specialize in enrichment and ESL. Click to read more.

At BrainBoost, we fit our programs to our students, not the other way around.

We enjoy working with students who:
  • Have been identified with a learning disability and/or a gifted profile
  • Need help understanding a specific subject
  • Need a meaningful challenge
  • Chronically underachieve in school
  • Struggle with social and emotional issues

How it works:

The Process

Get Goals: Work with a tutor and your case manager to develop goals that are achievable and relevant to your life.

Get Started: We dive into your sessions with you. Your tutor will make concepts clear, help you plan your studying, and support you in all the ways you need. You should see concrete progress within one or two sessions.

Get Feedback: All along the way, you, your parents, your tutor, and your case manager will provide important feedback to determine what’s working and what’s not. We will monitor conceptual understanding, grades, self-confidence and general progress. We’ll honestly talk out the feedback as a group until we get a good sense of what’s happening.

Get Better: As a group, we’ll build strategies (and revise our approach), keeping the best of what’s working and leaving behind what’s not. When we need to revise goals or set new ones, we’ll start the whole process again!

How do I get started?

If you’re interested in working with a BrainBoost tutor, give us a call at 604-723-0904, send us an email to info@brainboosteducation.com or fill out the form below.

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One-to-one Enrichment

What are you interested in?

If you know the answer, then it’s easy—we’ll design one-to-one sessions around your interest that explore the topic in new ways and help you to develop skills along the way. If you’re not sure what you’re interested in, we can spend the first few sessions introducing you to lots of cool ideas and topics and help you to pick something you think you’d like to explore further.

Topics students have explored before in one-on-one sessions include:

  • Small engines
  • String theory
  • Technology
  • Philosophy
  • Marine biology
  • Starting your own business
  • Quantum mechanics
  • Hockey
  • Art

Enrichment sessions help you ’Get Rich Quick’!

Because these sessions are not curriculum based, we have complete freedom to enrich you in ways you didn’t even know were possible. The result will be an enriched brain, and an enriched future in the money sense (we hope)! For example, let’s say you’re interested in hockey. To enrich the subject of hockey we could: start a hockey blog, design a hockey jersey and try selling it, analyze statistics mathematically, compose and record a fan song for your favourite team, learn how to interview sports players, visit TSN studios—the possibilities are endless!

ESL

Academic ESL Tutoring

BrainBoost offers ESL tutoring in various academic subjects, such as science, math, and humanities. Why put your academic learning on hold while you’re studying English, when you can do both? Our friendly and talented tutors can help you do just that. For a full list of our team of tutors, click here.

International ESL Tutoring

BrainBoost’s International ESL tutoring is more than just language training. We strive to provide a comprehensive experience: BrainBoost’s services are customizable, and after consulting with you to find out what you want to learn and how you learn best, we’ll teach to your specific needs and learning style. You’ll have the opportunity to use the language skills you learn to interact with local people, places, and the cultural mosaic that Canada is famous for.

Every city is different, and full of new places to see and people to meet. Without guidance, it can seem like a pretty large and daunting task to figure out what and who will give you the best idea of what it means to live in Vancouver. Our tutors feel that assignments and activities which improve language skills, while also addressing the larger goal of cultural exposure are a perfect way to blend the two goals: learn the language, and learn the culture.

Check out a sample plan and testimonials from past students:

I was able to improve my English in leaps and bounds because she made the sessions relevant to my interests (eg. trained communication skills, like interview training) which is good for my job. It was a good challenge for me!

I was given homework that made me got out and speak to the community. It was about Vancouver culture - hockey, which was a good link to my business vocabulary.

Thank you very much!
Corinne