Acalanes students work on a schedule built around 90-minute blocks, with all seven classes meeting briefly on Mondays and an Academy period on Wednesdays and Fridays for getting help from teachers. Long blocks move quickly through material, and a student who comes to Academy with the right questions gets far more out of it. Our UC Berkeley tutors help students use both well.
Tell us about your student, and we’ll match them with a UC Berkeley tutor who fits.
Sessions are one-on-one, at your home in Lafayette or online.
Meet our tutors
Math at Acalanes
Most Acalanes freshmen start in Algebra 1, Geometry or Geometry Advanced, and that starting point shapes the path to calculus. Students in Geometry Advanced can move through Algebra 2/Precalculus Honors to AP Calculus AB and BC. Students who start in Geometry can reach AP Calculus AB as seniors, by way of Algebra 2 Advanced and AP Precalculus. We tutor every step, and help students finish each course ready for the next one.
Science and engineering
We tutor the Living Earth, which is the biology course, along with chemistry, physics and the AP sciences. For seniors in Engineering and Applied Physics Honors, a Berkeley engineering student can be a particularly good match.
Our high school tutors, in parents’ own words
All reviewsFind a math tutor“Your program really helped us. Henry pulled up his English last year to an A, and his next tutor helped him pull up his math and bio.”
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Find a math tutor“My son had a wonderful experience with Cardinal Tutors when he needed help with his High School math and science classes. It turns out my son also needed help staying organized with all his assignments, something that the tutor helped with as well.”
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Find a math tutor“The subsequent long term tutor that we had for pre calc and for ACT tutoring was amazing. She was completely professional, organized, thorough and easy to work with.”
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Find a Tutor“I reached out to Cardinal Tutors and was lucky enough to find the most amazing tutor. I wish I had found him earlier.”
Find a math tutor“We used Cardinal Tutoring again in the Spring 2018 for precalculus. Once again, she had a great tutor she really liked and who really helped her this year. My daughter is a senior so we won't need Cardinal Tutoring again, but I highly recommend them!”
Find a Tutor“We have had an excellent experience with Cardinal Tutors for the past two years. Neil was very responsive whenever we had any questions. We definitely strongly recommend them and plan on using them again in the near future.”
Find a math tutor“It was great to find a couple of really smart young women who helped not only with the subject matter, but became great role models.”
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English, history and languages
AP English starts in junior year at Acalanes, and we help with essays and close reading long before that. We also tutor history, French, Mandarin and Spanish, and help Acalanes juniors and seniors with SAT and ACT prep and college essays.
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