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.

With proven success in addressing all types of learning needs, GradePower can make learning easier for almost any child. We also remedy any skill gaps in reading, writing, math, and study skills that may have eroded as a result of a student’s cognitive weaknesses, and that is why we build both the thinking skills and academic skills simultaneously.

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.