About TutorWorks

A trusted education partner helping students build language, literacy, and confidence.

Founded in 2001, TutorWorks delivers direct academic services and builds educational technology designed to help students strengthen foundational skills, accelerate learning, and experience the confidence that comes from meaningful progress.

Our story

Built around language learning, student support, and educational innovation.

TutorWorks, Inc. was founded by Deanna Terzian in 2001 to deliver direct academic services to learners and build the educational technology students use to succeed. Since then, TutorWorks has distinguished itself as a language learning expert, partnering with schools, districts, military partners, and university faculty to design, test, and refine academic intervention models and serious games for language learning.

TutorWorks combines direct instruction, high-dosage intervention, multilingual learning support, adaptive assessments, and research-informed educational technology to help students strengthen foundational skills and build confidence.

Proven experience

A proven track record of helping students grow.

TutorWorks has provided high-quality academic services in California and Florida, teaching foundational English language literacy to more than 30,000 public school students through research-based intervention programs.

145+public school districts or partnerships
30,000+students served through direct academic services
Hundreds of thousandsof learners reached through educational software
CA + FLprograms and services delivered in California and Florida

What we do

Instruction, technology, and support in one connected model.

Academic Intervention

TutorWorks supports below-grade-level students through structured intervention designed to accelerate mastery of foundational skills and strengthen higher-order thinking.

English Learner & Multilingual Support

TutorWorks specializes in serving multilingual learners, newcomers, and long-term English learners who need additional academic and language support.

Educational Technology

TutorWorks has reached hundreds of thousands of learners through research-based software including Explode the Code Online and Mage Duel, a serious game for language practice.

Parent & Family Engagement

TutorWorks creates learning environments that connect students, schools, and families through practical support, communication, and meaningful engagement.

Research and continuous improvement

Programs designed to improve with students' needs.

TutorWorks' language learning programs, both in-person and digital, succeed because they are examined and improved continuously. This allows TutorWorks to respond to unique student needs and changing academic requirements within a structured learning model.

The learning environments TutorWorks creates, both in person and in game-based settings, are designed to be motivational, supportive, and strengthened by technology, data, and a team-based approach.

Instructor quality

Carefully matched support from knowledgeable instructors.

TutorWorks instructors are carefully selected and matched based on student needs. The organization's instructional model emphasizes subject knowledge, competence, engagement, and the ability to support students as they build foundational skills and confidence.

Leadership

Led by education, science, technology, and business experience.

TutorWorks is guided by a leadership team with experience in education, curriculum design, research, artificial intelligence, software development, finance, and school partnership strategy.

Meet the Leadership Team

Parent perspective

Support families can feel.

“TutorWorks was a great program for my son because it was held directly after school. The tutor helped him in areas of greatest need like comprehension and multiplication.”
Parent of TutorWorks student

Ready to begin

Ready to help students move forward with confidence?

Connect with TutorWorks to explore academic services, district partnerships, family programs, or educational technology solutions.