Design of Intervention Learning Options and Digital Course Selection

With Gifted Apples, online tutoring is very much like learning at school. The difference is that your learning session is private with your teacher, and the instruction provided to you is designed especially for you. Occasionally, you and another student, or even a group of 4, may participate in a unique learning activity that will increase the transfer of a newly learned skill by engaging in an activity with a peer partner or partner teams. However, small grouping is not typical with Gifted Apples for intensive Tier III instruction. If a small group activity is planned, you will break out of the group to resume your individual, private session when the activity is complete.

Your individually designed learning option is taught by a certified and licensed “tutor”, and is scheduled by appointment. You will be able to log in to our instructional learning platform to stream videos during instructional time, which will be recorded for progress monitoring and evaluation. An online, supportive course of study will support all of your learning sessions. Your tutor will schedule a time to work with you on your online course of study based on your scheduled calendar, but you may also study independently on your online course by logging in at any time.

Supportive courses are required for the 3-month, 4-month, 5-month, 6-month, or 7-month intervention options.

At no additional cost, we offer a 2-session per month bonus. Your intervention program will include the additional “2 Sessions Bonus,” which will be scheduled each month and will provide additional learning in one of our adaptive, predictive sequential online courses.

The 2-Session Bonus shall be applied to all intervention program options.

Refer to our How It Works page for more details.

Is testing required?

Yes. An individual assessment of your abilities in the area(s) in which you are seeking help is necessary and required to meet educational standards and curriculum guidelines established by your state’s Department of Education.

The individual assessment observation and tutoring phase (IA&OT) is planned and starts with the initial screening. It then evaluates reading skills in areas such as word study (phonology/phonemic awareness), fluency (naming words quickly), vocabulary, rate of fluency for proper comprehension, and retelling of a story to see how well the reader understood the text. Motivation for reading and learning is also observed.

An evaluation of your basic math skills needed to solve different types of math problems, your vocabulary of basic math concepts needed to understand math problems, your reading comprehension skills needed to understand the language of math problems and your familiarity with formulas for solving unknown variables. word problems and math equations will be evaluated using traditional testing resources administered by your interventionist or tutor as well as online computer-adapted assessments.

Why is so much instructional time required?

Gifted Apples offers six (6) intensive intervention learning options ranging from 750 to 2500 minutes or the equivalent of 15 to 50 clock hours per session. One (1) Carnegie credit is 120 clock hours/7200 minutes. There are four quarters in the traditional school year, equivalent to 30 clock hours or 1800 minutes per academic quarter. A typical reading or math class is based on 40 minutes of instruction five days per week, totaling 200 minutes per week x nine weeks, equal to 1800 minutes or 30 clock hours. If Gifted Apples’ intervention sessions were delivered for 40 minutes, 5 days per week for 9 weeks, students would receive a total of 1800 minutes, or 30 clock hours—equivalent to 0.25 credit hours or 1 academic quarter of instruction. Gifted Apples intervention sessions are 50 minutes, which provides more intensity since students cannot attend five intervention sessions per week. At 50-minute sessions, your child will receive 2250 minutes, or 37.5 clock hours, of private, individual intervention compared to the traditional 40-minute class session with 18–26 students per class. Our classes are designed on a clock-hour basis so that instruction can be aligned with traditional credit courses in most academic programs.

What is the Learning Gap Guarantee?

The Close the Learning Gap Guarantee is designed to increase your skill and knowledgeability by 15% on critical components of reading and math assessed during your Individual Assessment and Observation Tutoring Phase (A&OT). Word development, fluency development, comprehension development, basic math, algebra, and geometry are just a few examples of the subjects or learning targets that students enrolled in an Intervention Option program must work on with their tutors or interventionists for a total of 150 minutes per month for three (3) consecutive months.

Earned credits and stipend award

In our effort to support your academic success, we will award you a monetary stipend for each month that you fulfill the Learning Gap Guarantee (LG Guarantee). You can earn three (3) credits per month for each consecutive month you attend your intervention option session for 150 minutes and complete your online supportive class learning for 150 minutes on a single course without absence. Each credit is worth $10. Students can earn nine (9) credits by the end of their Intervention Option Program and be awarded $90.

The maximum award is $90 per household. Students must complete their 16; 20; 24; or 28-week program according to the LG criteria of 150 minutes per month in both classroom sessions and online learning on a single course, without absence. Students will receive their GiftedApples Stipend Award at the end of their Intervention Option Program.

Refer to our learning terms for details.

Can I change my learning program option?

Yes. You can change your learning program option, but your initial areas of concern will still be targeted for instruction. In order to maintain a “balanced learning structure”, an increase or decrease in the frequency or intensity of instruction in a specific area may be modified. Instead of having to change your learning program, an evaluation of your skills and abilities may be reassessed. Based on the data from the curriculum-based measurement of your learning growth or deficiencies, the learning program may be modified and/or differentiated.

You can also decrease or increase your session hours without changing your enrollment contract.

Gifted Apples accepts all credit and debit cards, Paypal accounts, ACH processing payments, and payment installment plans.

Payment Installment Plan Options

Note: If you choose Installment Pay Pal, your GAs program Intervention Option Program will not begin for approximately two weeks but not later than twenty (20) days from the date of completion of your Assessment and Observation Phase. This time frame allows for the review of all testing data, the writing of the intervention plan report, the preparation of the intervention plan program, and the scheduling of the course of study program and calendar.

Installment Payment Plan

• If you pay the Assessment & Observation Phase (A&OT) fee in full, you will receive a ten percent (10%) deduction off of the initial A&OT Phase fee.
• A minimum of one-third (1/3) of the A&OT Phase fee is due before the initiation of testing and in conjunction with your Tutoring and Intervention Contract.
• You can also choose to pay for your child’s Assessment and Observation Phase fee in three installments, the first of which must be paid at the time of enrollment.
• If you opt for an agreed-upon installment plan for your intervention option program, individual private tutoring, or small group virtual class, your invention option program will be scheduled and begin in accordance with your agreed-upon installment plan and course of study schedule.
• A 2.5% convenience fee for the 2-payment installment payment plan a 3.5% convenience fee for the 3-payment installment payment plan or a 4.5% convenience fee for the 4-payment installment payment plan shall be charged for each billing transaction of each installment.

Note: The maximum installments for our intervention option programs will be four (4).

When is the remaining balance of my tutoring program due?

For our assessment and evaluation of your child, your enrollment fee plus one-third (1/3) of the Assessment and Observation Tutoring (A&OT) Phase fee must be paid at the time of your enrollment. You may pay in full and receive a ten (10) percent discount, or you may have the option to pay for your A&OT fee in three installments, of which one-third of your A&OT Phase fee would be due upon enrollment, along with an extended time to pay for the A&OT from the initiation of your child’s assessment. Your assessment and observation tutoring will be scheduled and initiated with only one-third of the fee submitted.

If you enroll in an Intervention Option Program, Individual Private Tutoring, Small Group Virtual Class, or Online Course, all fees, plus two-thirds (2/3s) or sixty-six percent of the Assessment & Observation Tutoring Phase fee, must be paid before your Individual Learning Option Program can be initiated.

Refer to our learning terms for details.

Refunds

Gifted Apples will provide additional tutoring (up to nine sessions) at no cost to your parents if your academic performance does not increase by 15% in any of the assessed areas measured during the Assessment and Observation Tutoring Phase. If, after the additional tutoring and instruction, there is no significant improvement in the target areas assessed, Gifted Apples will return up to 100% of your tuition for the nine sessions required by the Closing the Learning Gap Guarantee (including the enrollment fee).

Withdrawals and cancellations

If you withdraw from your GAs Learning Program or cancel your intervention option plan, you will be eligible for a refund on the following terms:

• If you choose to withdraw your enrollment within three (3) days or 72 hours before the first scheduled

In the Assessment and Observation Tutoring (A&OT) Phase, we will refund 100% of the tuition you have paid, less the enrollment, course Setup and administration fees.

• If you choose to withdraw your enrollment after three (3) days or 72 hours before the first scheduled A&OT phase, we will refund 60% of the tuition you have paid, less the enrollment course.

Setup and administration fees

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