The Community Classroom
Tutoring with certified teachers that helps students build confidence and find joy in learning.
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Welcome to The Community Classroom
We offer tutoring, academic coaching, and parent support to the western Massachusetts community and students across the country.
All services offered online or in person.
Tutoring
Our tutors are certified teachers with a proven track record to help students improve and excel with specific subject matters and learning concepts. We offer tutoring to learners Pre-K through Adult (Online or In Person) and with any learning difference.
Academic Coaching
We prepare students for a life of academic success by improving upon such skills as note-taking, test preparation, study skills, time management, and goal setting. We lower stress while helping clients develop stronger executive functioning skills.
Our Classroom
We have a physical classroom space located in Florence, Massachusetts, that offers in-person tutoring, homework support options, and special events throughout the year.
Event Space Rental
Our classroom space is available to rent. A vibrant, welcoming venue open to the public to rent for a minimum of two hours on weekends or evening after 5:00 pm.
College Essay Support
Our experienced writing experts work with high school seniors to provide proven college essay coaching focused on easing the stress and maximizing potential for the writing sample.
Space Trailer
A mobile planetarium with a pop-up STEAM social justice reading room. Rent this little trailer for educational events, pop-up learning sessions, birthday parties, or unique gatherings.
Why Choose Us?
The Community Classroom is not an algorithm tutor-matching database. We are real teachers with a real passion for education.
Proven
Our tutors have consistently helped students gain subject matter knowledge, improve scores, enhance study methods, and gain confidence in themselves along the way.
Customized
We make sure to personalize both the tutor matching process and lesson planning, to ensure your child’s interests and needs are seen, heard, and met.
Experienced
All of our staff have classroom teaching experience and degrees in education, 78% of whom have their Masters Degrees.
Flexible
We offer both online and in-person sessions with booking flexibility (evenings and weekends), options that can fit in and around your carpool schedule.
More Than Just Tutoring…
We offer western Massachusetts students a variety of programs, clubs, and camps throughout the year to keep them engaged, learning, and having fun all in a safe nurturing space.
Pop-Up Programs!
Intermittently offered after-school programs, purposefully scheduled when school is out early, or even off on a day. Fun for students, perfect for caregivers.
Summer Camps
We offer 10 summer camps throughout the summer with a wide variety of topics and are open to different age groups. For the older kids, we offer a “CIT” program to be involved and take a leadership role.
Afterschool Clubs
A mobile planetarium with a pop-up STEAM social justice reading room. Rent this little trailer for educational events, pop-up learning sessions, birthday parties, or unique gatherings.
A Word From Our Clients…
On The Blog
3 Back-To-School Hacks Before the First Bell
Three simple back-to-school hacks that take just a few minutes to set up and can save you a lot of stress once the school year gets rolling.
Wednesday Magic: The Little Community Classroom Space Trailer Returns to the Florence Farmers’ Market
The Little Community Classroom Space Trailer is back at the Florence Farmers’ Market every Wednesday starting May 6 with free hands-on activities for kids.
Valentine’s Day Science Activities for Curious Kids
Valentine’s Day science activities for kids featuring fizzy heart experiments, bath bomb science, and heart models—plus details about our Love Lab half-day camp.
Working caregivers, we see you. Here’s our secret for focused work time when mom has a few chores at the Community Classroom: a jar of pattern blocks and a few printable pattern cards. Cora built this spooky house on her own, and she’s smiling and super proud. What’s your go-to for independent play?
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Needoh Science was all that and a bag of squish!
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Manatee Mania! After chatting with scientists and a volunteer from @savethemanateeclub by videoconference, our young explorers created their own manatee hospital, crafted aquatic scenes, and explored how manatees don’t have blubber and how that affects their ability to stay warm. It was a lovely morning to explore one of the cutest creatures around! Cheers to our future marine biologists. 🐠🐡🩺
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Apron on. Microscope ready. 🔬🥣
Science does not have to feel like science to be real science. At The Community Classroom, kids get curious about the world one batch of dough at a time.
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Have you ever wondered what it would be like to ask kids to create spooky sounds, give them some props to do so, and a device to record their work? We are just going to drop this cuteness right here, just in time for Halloween. Enjoy, Spooky Sound Lab!
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Babysitters Club had the perfect pre-Halloween skill-building lesson today…how to identify food allergens in candy. Of course there was some candy sampling, too. Then club members got to practice making a perfect allergen-friendly toddler snack. Allergen Ally Badge = earned! 🍬🍫
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Witch’s Workshop was just the right mix of engineering, chemistry, and Halloween today! There was a tallest witch hat challenge, advanced potion lab, a witch’s cauldron challenge, skeleton dissections, and of course…spider web slime! And plenty of cozy reading when kids wanted to leave the spookiness for a bit. 📕❤️👻
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Why yes, that IS a blue feigning death beetle crawling inside a human skull! Critter Club was creepy today in preparation for Halloween, complete with dissections, an exploration of skeletons and exoskeletons, and piecing together organs. Ewwwwww!
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