Bryan's Tutoring Service

Schools are underfunded, kids need schooling, some kids need more help than others; some parents want to help more than others do. Tutoring helps kids learn.

Bryan’s Tutoring Service offers a wide range of academic subjects. Sessions can be set up as private or students may form groups for tutoring. Private sessions offer intense individual assistance, but groups sessions can also be beneficial with decreased economic costs and the use of team-based approach that the business program encourages. For The Atkinson-based courses, Bryan’s Tutoring Service offers an extensive collection of past exams which are invaluable for teaching the material and for exam preparation. For all students, Bryan’s Tutoring Service uses the Systematic Analysis Framework (SAF). This unique problem solving approach taught to students provides a system to approach all topics that they encounter in school. This system seeks to provide the student with a way in which they can better solve their own queries. This system differs from most tutors who are primarily concerned with answering the student’s immediate questions and not concerned with providing the students with basic problem solving skills for future applications.

Bryan’s Tutoring Service has identified several target market segments that will be pursued. The largest segment is the rural and urban primary and secondary schools in Imo state, Nigeria. Bryan has close relationships with most of the professors of the business program, allowing Bryan to tailor the tutoring to the specific course material as well as receive referrals from said professors. Within this market segment there will be three subgroups: quantitative clients, non-quantitative clients, and international students. Bryan’s Tutoring Service will also serve undergraduate students from Federal polytechnic Nekede and the surrounding colleges.

Bryan’s Tutoring Service will be lead by Chris Nwokeoma. Bryan brings a wealth of academic excellence as well as a proven record of tutoring. Bryan first began tutoring at a large language school. It was this experience that provided Bryan with the insight that he enjoyed and excelled at tutoring. While Bryan attending Imo University’s Atkinson Graduate School of Management he informally began tutoring students. During Bryan’s second year in the business program, the school hired him to be a tutor for the first year students. This provided Bryan with incredible insight into the specific course work at Atkinson as he worked hand in hand with the professors preparing the students for the course work and exams.

Bryan’s Tutoring Service is a home-based tutoring business that offers a wide range of tutoring services. Due to Bryan’s expertise, professor networking connections, and low overhead, Bryan’s Tutoring Service will realize good revenue and profits the years of this plan

Bryan’s background includes an undergraduate degree in business management, and a minor in French and Communications. He worked previously as a trainer in a large language school with an intensive program where he taught French for two years. He worked directly with 70 students and indirectly as a substitute and a large group trainer for 100’s more. Initially Bryan started this position teaching classes of 10, however it became obvious quickly that he was gifted at teaching students. He seemed to have the knack for explaining difficult concepts in ways that were easy to understand.

Bryan is quite skilled at surveying people and determining what is the most effective way that individuals learn. This skill is key for Bryan and for the tutoring service. Most teachers have a set way of teaching the material, from years of teaching the same curriculum, year in and year out. Bryan has always searched for the best way to teach the individual. When the person does not respond well to one methods he immediately changes methods looking for a more effective way.

Bryan’s Tutoring Service is applying to SOLVE because (1) the network is valuable in building an operational partners, which is a unique aspect of Bryan’s model and a key value-add for beneficiaries, and (2) Bryan Tutoring Services is using the upcoming year’s pilot programs as a critical opportunity to test and pinpoint a business model for scale. SOLVE’s peer networks, leadership networks, and visibility opportunities would give Bryan Tutoring Service the resources and platform to create impact sourcing partnerships that benefit  program participants, and pave the way for more equitable, inclusive participation in the digital economy. In addition, Bryan's Tutoring Service values the exposure and media access as we are still building national and international reputation for the work that we do. Working with SOLVE’s networks and media allows Bryan's Tutoring Service to increase our presence in the United States and build stakeholder relationships with tech’s biggest companies, many of which have made impact sourcing commitments for students through the Tent Foundation. In addition, Bryan's Tutoring Service seeks to increase its roster of operating partners, so that we can deploy our solution broadly and impact more people, increasing access to opportunity via the digital learning. Bryan's Tutoring Service also seeks strategic guidance as we fine-tune the business model and M&E practices. The next 12 months will be key for Bryan's Tutoring Service as we deploy in 3 locations and pinpoint a model that works flexibly across cultures and geographies. SOLVE’s strategic guidance would be invaluable at this critical juncture, setting Bryan's Tutoring Service up for sustainable impact for years to come.

Bryan’s Tutoring Service exists to help students. We take a unique and innovative approach to teaching that helps students connect with the subject matter they need to master. Through personalized and focussed teaching processes, our students develop the tools they need for ongoing success in their fields of study. Our success depends on our attention to the needs of our clients and truly helping them achieve – we don’t succeed unless our clients succeed.

In the next year, the programs in Nigeria, Bryan's Tutoring Service will collectively serve 40000+ direct beneficiaries. Building off this initial capacity, Bryn's Tutoring Service intends to double the number of beneficiaries each year using it’s scalable and replicable model. The curriculum can be easily redesigned to be appropriate for all local environments. The tutoring of students model and low variable costs will allow Bryan's Tutoring Service to impact 100000 direct and 54,000 indirect beneficiaries in 5 years, with larger community ripple effects.

We continuously track and organize large amounts of data on the progress of our beneficiaries. Our core set of indicators are student grades and achieving goals success and parent satisfaction. We measure monthly students grades 3-6 months and 12 months after the program as compared to pre-program, as well as to provide the student with a way in which they can better solve their own queries.We use proxies for educational outcomes, and parents satisfaction. For one indicator, we compile student grades at the end of the course compared to the beginning, measured through surveys with questions relating to providing the students with basic problem solving skills for future applications and uses the Systematic Analysis Framework (SAF). This unique problem solving approach taught to students provides a system to approach all topics that they encounter in school

Brayan's Tutoring Service is well aligned with the challenge because it tackles structural elements of the digital divide, such as lack of access to digital  learning to enable underserved students full participation in the digital learning. This unique problem solving approach taught to students provides a system to approach all topics that they encounter in school. This system seeks to provide the student with a way in which they can better solve their own queries. This system differs from most tutors who are primarily concerned with answering the students immediate questions and not concerned with providing the students with basic problem solving skills for future applications. The solution is adaptable to many contexts and leverages partnerships for lean deployment, enhancing scalability and therefore impact. In the first year we will develop a logic model to identify quantitative and qualitative indicators to demonstrate successful advancement of our short-, intermediate-, and long-term outcomes for change at the students, organizational, community, and systems levels for our theory of change over the ten-year period. 

For all students, Bryan’s Tutoring Service uses the Systematic Analysis Framework (SAF). This unique problem solving approach taught to students provides a system to approach all topics that they encounter in school. This system seeks to provide the student with a way in which they can better solve their own queries. This system differs from most tutors who are primarily concerned with answering the students immediate questions and not concerned with providing the students with basic problem solving skills for future applications.

Brayan’s Tutoring Service program is unique in that it (1)starts with no prerequisites and is accessible to the most vulnerable students, those with no digital skills, who cannot access other opportunities. Brayan's Tutoring Service creates multiple pathways for these individuals.

The proprietary curriculum is adapted to address the specific vulnerabilities of underserved students, with modules emphasizing with basic problem solving skills for future applications.

Solutions intended for the students are more efficient, equitable, and regenerative when a broad coalition is involved from the beginning of planning. Therefore, Brayan's Tutoring Service have already embarked in a participatory process, inviting all Schools that are underfunded, kids and students that need schooling who share a commitment to schooling. We will ensure reasonable accommodations in all facets of our work.

The bulk of sales come from word of mouth. When new students come into the school, the upperclassmen tell them about the resources available. So past clients provide most of the advertising for the company. Getting seen and getting the word out to new students is always important. One important message to convey is that the tutoring services are not just for slow students who are having a hard time keeping up, but for anyone who wants an edge and to get the most out of their learning experience.

Bryan’s Tutoring will develop and maintain testimonials of past student clients for a sales pitch indicating just how helpful Bryan’s Tutoring has been to the students. Bryan’s Tutoring will periodically offer a free session, typically in the beginning of the school term. The goal of this session is to provide qualified leads with an opportunity to experience Bryan’s Tutoring and view for themselves how effective the service can be. This sales event will be able to convert many possible customers into paying customers, people that possibly would not have even considered a tutoring service, not previously recognizing their own need for such a service. After the free session many "doubters" will be converted into customers.

The sales strategy will also emphasize the ability for students to create private groups for tutoring. By forming a group, the students pay less per person, Bryan’s Tutoring makes more per hour, and it promotes group work, a fundamental educational and real world tool.

Sources of Funds

Bryan will use the money he made in his side job to make the tutoring as source of income 

Entrepreneurial business ventures thrift shops are Brayan's Tutoring Service source of incom : We have a shop that sells second-hand articles especially clothes to raise money for the Organization.