At Ellen Fletcher Middle School (formerly Terman), 6th graders spend most of the day with a small team of two or three core teachers, and in 7th grade two electives join the schedule. Our tutors are Stanford students, and we offer Fletcher students one-on-one tutoring in the subjects and the habits that change brings.
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Meet our tutors
From a small core team to seven classes
Fletcher’s 6th grade core takes up five periods: English, social studies, science, math and a Flex period spent with the homeroom teacher on things like note taking, research skills and academic planning. In 7th grade Flex and the Exploratory Wheel drop off the Fletcher schedule and two electives come on, so the planning becomes the student’s own job. Our academic coaching picks up where Flex left off, with one planner, a weekly look ahead and a set place for every handout.
PRIME, office hours and getting a retake right
Every Fletcher student has PRIME once a week, a period the school sets aside for reteaching, teacher conferences and assessment retakes, and teachers hold office hours on Monday and Wednesday afternoons. A tutor helps a Fletcher student use that time well: we find what went wrong on the first attempt, practice it and send the student to PRIME with specific questions.
Our middle school tutors, in parents’ own words
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Math without lanes, French or Spanish, then Gunn
Fletcher follows the Palo Alto Unified sequence of Foundational Math in 6th grade, Concepts in Math in 7th and Algebra 1 in 8th, with a district validation route for students who want to move faster. With most Fletcher 8th graders in the same Algebra 1, a math tutor can slow down for one student or bring extension problems for another. Fletcher teaches French and Spanish, and finishing the 1A and 1B courses sends a student straight into level 2 as a freshman. The district describes Fletcher as feeding naturally into Gunn, where 9th graders choose between Geometry and Geometry H, so 8th grade is a good year to make algebra solid.
Sessions happen at your home in Palo Alto or online. Let us know what your Fletcher student is working on this quarter, and we’ll introduce a tutor.
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