Enlist parents as teaching partners
Paloma helps Title I districts & CMOs accelerate learning by unleashing families’ untapped teaching potential
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Leading schools has never been harder
Equipping families to
deliver at-home
instruction is your best bet
Research
Research finds parental involvement is the biggest predictor of students’ academic success & attendance.
Time
Kids spend just 13% of waking hours in classrooms; districts must address the other 87% to move the needle.
Cost-effectiveness
Studies show parents are as effective as teachers in tutoring. Plus, they’re intrinsically motivated to support their kids’ learning.
Parents are your greatest - and most underutilized - instructional resource
Parents are your greatest - and most underutilized - instructional resource
Unlock 1000 hours of 1-on-1 instructional time for every classroom
79% of parents in our partner schools have used Paloma to successfully tutor their kids at home. Families have completed nearly two-thirds of all daily tutoring sessions.
Over the course of a school year, Paloma unlocks up to 1,000 extra hours of rigorous, one-on-one instruction for every classroom.
By the time students enter middle school, Paloma parents will have given their kids the equivalent of an entire extra year of school!
How Paloma Works
Paloma’s mobile web-app enables families to deliver short-burst tutoring in reading & math for 15 daily minutes.
Paloma texts families with a daily tutoring session personalized to their students’ learning needs & interests.
Every session has the same building blocks: I do, we do, you do.
We enable parents to deliver instructions that is
First, parents watch a short video introducing the bite-sized skill they’ll practice with their child. Parents’ tutoring sessions are mapped to district curricula to ensure coherence.
Then, parents practice the skill together with their child.
Every day ends with a child applying what they learned by reading a decodable book or doing a math story problem with their parents’ coaching and support.
Personalization powered by AI
Paloma uses AI to generate decodable books & word problems aligned with students’ learning needs and personal interests
Clove is at a cove.
It is the best cove on the globe, jokes Clove.
She chose to come to the cove to see crab homes.
Clove scopes out the best zone.
There is a dome, like a globe, close to her.
Clove pokes the dome. Two crabs pop up.
That dome is a crab home.
The crabs come out of the dome home. Clove hopes they are not mad.
The crabs are not in mad mode. They want to play on stones.
The cove is the zone for fun!
Evan loves dogs so much.
The dog Evan likes best is Max. Max is big and fluffy. He likes to chomp on sticks.
Evan and Max go to the ranch. Evan sees a big bush.
Max runs to the bush. He sniffs all over. What does Max find?
A bunch of little pups! They dash into the shrub.
Evan claps his hands. "Gosh, that is a lot of pups!" he says.
Max and the pups play. They dash all over the ranch.
Evan sees them play. "They are such good chums!" he says.
Evan sits on a bench. He eats his lunch and gives a chunk of fish to Max.
After lunch, Max and Evan play fetch.
Evan hugs Max to his chest. "You are the best pup," he says.
Brenda loves to seek out new facts. This week, she has been into bees.
Brenda sees bees by a big tree. She looks at them as they feed.
"They love how sweet it is!" Brenda says with glee. She smiles from cheek to cheek.
Brenda keeps a pad with bee facts. She adds things she sees them do.
Brenda sees the queen bee at the hive. The queen keeps all of the bees in line.
Brenda loves to go deep with trees and plants, too. She loves that we need them.
One week, Brenda meets a man who keeps bees. He tells her what they need.
"Bees need plants," he says. Brenda agrees to plant them on her street.
"Bees help the plants," Brenda tells her mom. "We need bees so we can eat."
Brenda looks at the bees zip by the weeds. "Bees fill me with glee," she says. The bees seem happy, too!
Kids are protagonists in their own decodable books & story problems!
Paloma Parent, NYC
Upskilling parents as at-home tutors is the most [cost] effective , scalable & culturally responsive way to accelerate learning
Upskilling parents as at-home tutors is the most [cost] effective , scalable & culturally responsive way to accelerate learning
Paloma saves teachers
~100 hours per year
Paloma eliminates inefficiencies in teachers’ existing efforts:
From
To
Conferences
Scheduling & rescheduling parent-teacher conferences is painful, and planning them is time-consuming.
Paloma schedules, plans, & facilitates best-you-ever-had conferences. Plan an effective conference in just 30 seconds!
Homework
Curating, monitoring & grading homework is an absolute time-suck.
Teachers can assign Paloma's Daily 15 as HW. No more preps wasted making & grading packets!
Tracking progress
Reading logs are a paperwork nightmare.
Paloma shares usage data & leaderboards with teachers, including actionable insights.
Paloma makes teaching less lonely & more sustainable
Paloma Teacher, NYC
Why districts love us
Ramp up instructional time
There just isn’t enough classroom time. We mobilize & upskill parents as at-home tutors. You can hire paid tutors instead, but that’s expensive, unscalable, & often ineffective.
Boost student attendance and enrollment
Studies show family engagement drives daily attendance. Engaged families are also enrolled families.
Differentiate learning resources
Paloma equips families with daily learning activities personalized to kids’ learning needs & interests. Parent-facing guidance is translated into their home language.
Save teachers time & make them happy
By streamlining parent-teacher conferences & homework, Paloma saves teachers ~25 hrs per marking period. Plus, we make teaching feel like a team sport.
Save money
With ESSER funding running out, districts need bang for buck. We offer the most affordable way to increase instructional time & accelerate student learning.
Our team
Investors & awards
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FAQs
Yes! Paloma only supports Title I districts. In our partner schools, 79% of all families have successfully completed a tutoring session with their child at home. Families have completed nearly two-thirds of all daily tutoring sessions in their entirety. Fun fact: Parents are tutoring their kids on Paloma more often than people typically check Instagram (43% vs. 29% daily active usage). That’s how motivated families are to help their kids succeed. You don't want to leave this on the table.
Paloma is designed to embed seamlessly into teachers’ existing workflow and help them do less, not more. There is so much time to be saved: scheduling parent-teacher conferences is often clunky; planning for conferences is time-consuming; creating, monitoring, & grading homework can be a major timesuck; reading logs can be a paperwork nightmare. The list goes on! By streamlining these activities, Paloma can save teachers ~25 hours per marking period without requiring anything extra. Teachers can instead spend this time focusing on curriculum, instruction, or even just recharging their batteries. It's precisely because teachers are maxed out that it's important for districts to "call in the reserves" and mobilize families to join the instructional effort at home.
Paloma is designed as a Tier 1 resource deployed district-wide in K-5. We aim to equip every elementary family in your district to accelerate student learning in reading and math by delivering rigorous, curriculum-aligned, and joyful instruction daily at home.
All of our parent-facing content is translated into families’ home languages. We’ve also designed Paloma as a mobile web app: no download, no login, no password. Families receive their daily text message and click a link that immediately immerses them in their personalized tutoring session.
Tutoring is highly effective, but it’s difficult and expensive to scale. Parents are the tutors hiding in plain sight. Studies show marginalized parents are just as effective as teachers in tutoring kids. Families are also intrinsically motivated—they're not asking to come on district payroll to support their children's learning. Traditional tutoring costs anywhere from $500-$1,000 per student, which makes sense for Tier 2 interventions but is cost-prohibitive at scale. Even robot tutors like Khanmigo cost $100/student. By mobilizing families to deliver daily short-burst tutoring at home, Paloma can bring the promise of high dosage tutoring to every child at 1/20th the cost of traditional models.
