GradePower Learning

Specialties

Make this a summer filled with active thinking! Whether you would like to enrich your child’s skills to maintain his or her success, or build your child’s skills to become more successful, GradePower can help. Unlike typical tutoring centers, GradePower gets to the root cause of why a child isn’t meeting his/​her potential. Rather than just drilling skills, we teach children how to think actively and learn independently. Our ultimate goal is to break the tutoring cycle. Our focus on thinking skills allows us uniquely to remove those obstacles, and strengthen the thought processes involved with learning.

History

Established in 1984.

GradePower Learning is the U.S. name for Oxford Learning, which opened in London, Ontario in 1984. The founder, Dr. Nick Whitehead, identified a need among many families for a supplement to school that doesn’t just drill information, but actually strengthens their critical thinking, so they can learn more easily and achieve their full potential in all subjects — not just reading or writing or math. He developed Oxford’s curriculum to both train the most important thinking skills, and improve reading, writing, math, and study skills. For twenty-​nine years, Oxford Learning in Canada, and now GradePower Learning in the U.S., have been helping children become independent thinkers and active learners.

Meet the Business Owner

Tony M.

Business Owner

Grade Power’s method is not the classic modes of repetition, but locating the fundamental learning issues. Instead of teaching how, Mauro and his team try to create a knowledge base. Their programs extend past facts and main ideas to help students understand why they should care and what effect it would have on them.

«We go about developing the learning skills, the learning awareness and also the academic skills concurrently so that the student, in short order, understands what they know,» Mauro said. «If the student isn’t grasping a particular concept, they’re more conscious of why they’re not and what information they need to seek to help it make sense or help them make the connection. They just become more self-​sufficient as learners.»

The goal at Grade Power is developing students so they eventually don’t need a teacher. Mauro said the Grade Power method changes a student’s perspective, and it’s all the motivation he needs.