Building a Franchise Based on the Business of Learning Headquarters: Tutoring Club, Inc. 11241 South Eastern Avenue Henderson, NV 89052 Phone: (888) 674-6425 Today’s economy offers no end of entrepreneurial opportunity based on consumer needs. From food to fashion, entertainment to extreme sports, there is an endless list of businesses devoted to fulfilling real and imagined needs. And the power of mass media has ensured that the actual difference between “real” and “imagined” needs is a constantly moving target. Among the needs that most would concede to be fundamental are those of wholesome nutrition, shelter, and healthcare. Perhaps less obvious, however, is the need for knowledge – a commodity that has proved as important an arbiter of success and personal fulfillment as the satisfaction of any physical need. Key Management: Chad Schwartz - President Mike Schwartz - Vice President The historic recognition of this need, and the creation of a system of public education in response to it, is in no small part responsible for the material achievements of the United States. And while it is primarily the responsibility of schools to impart basic skills that match the realities of the workplace our children will enter as adults, there is a more basic function that schools and parents perform: teaching our children to become successful learners. Helping schools and parents achieve this goal is a 20 year mission of Tutoring Club. When a child enrolls in Tutoring Club. Students are given a series of diagnostic exams to determine any areas of weakness in particular skill areas. The curriculum is then tailored to these problem areas, and they are honed until a basic level of retention is demonstrated. “We hire people who are credentialed teachers or who have advanced academic degrees. We don’t use computers to teach kids, but to compile the diagnostic information and develop appropriate lesson plans. “We start from the lowest skill level in an academic area then progress to the next level, and the number of lessons is based on pre- and post-test diagnostics,” notes Chad Schwartz, tutoring industry expert and founder of Tutoring Club. Tutoring Club, Inc. 11241 South Eastern Avenue, Henderson, NV 89052 Phone: (888) 674-6425 TutorAid Programs Tutoring Club proprietary TutorAid programs focus on the key academic skills of reading, writing, and mathematics. These programs include: Amazing Math A comprehensive program that covers math skills from first through eighth grades. Rx Reading A first through twelfth grade language arts program focusing on reading rate and recall, including vocabulary building. The Write Way A program addressing writing skills from elementary through high school grade levels, emphasizing sentence structure, grammar, punctuation and spelling, word usage, and outline and essay creation. Through its TutorUp program, Tutoring Club also delivers individualized instruction in science, foreign language and high-school mathematics. School Tools teaches basic learning skills such as note taking, outlining, and time management, and College Prep provides ACT & SAT instruction. Tutoring Club Guarantee. Based on the strength of its learning programs, Tutoring Club offers parents an unparalleled guarantee that student performance will improve a full academic level, based on Standardized Testing, in whatever academic area they need. Tutoring Club conferences with parents on a monthly basis, or more often as needed, and provides regular progress reports to teachers. Tutoring Club, Inc. 11241 South Eastern Avenue, Henderson, NV 89052 Phone: (888) 674-6425 Tutoring Club’s success underscored by Entrepreneur Magazine. In its annual ranking of U.S. franchise businesses, Entrepreneur named Tutoring Club among the nation’s Franchise 500 for the last five years, including America’s Top Global Franchises and Fastest-Growing Franchises. According to Chad Schwartz, “the success of our organization is based on two things: the dedication of each of our franchisees to our goal of creating successful learners, and the quality of the programs we’ve created to achieve that goal.” Tutoring Club was founded in 1991, and is now celebrating 20 years of achievement. After nearly a decade of honing the organization’s learning programs, Tutoring Club launched a franchise expansion phase that has so far resulted in the creation of nearly 150 Clubs throughout the country and abroad. Contact Info: Chad Schwartz Phone: (888) 674-6425 CSchwartz@TutoringClub.com A significant factor in the success of Tutoring Club, and a harbinger of its continued growth, is the changing attitude of parents towards tutoring. For years, tutoring suffered the perception of being only for “slow” children, or those who struggled in a particular academic area. Thanks to organizations like Tutoring Club, however, that perception is rapidly changing – and there is now an explosion in the enrollment of children in tutoring programs. Observes Schwartz, “many of the students at our centers are already at or above grade level – we are helping them hone their learning skills in the same way that a child would go to a basketball or soccer camp to improve his or her playing ability.” Tutoring Club, Inc. 11241 South Eastern Avenue, Henderson, NV 89052 Phone: (888) 674-6425