Pencil Spaces

Mission

Pencil is on a mission to improve educational outcomes by making the delivery of personalized and relationship driven learning as simple and effective as possible. Our goal is to empower every part of the education ecosystem so that teachers can teach better, organizations can impact more students, and researchers and truly understand what makes for the best educational experience.

Program Description

Pencil is an all-in-one platform for tutoring service provision. Pencil makes scheduling, reporting and delivering tutoring sessions simple by combining every aspect of the process into a single, unified platform. The Pencil platform comes fully loaded with everything organizations need to provide high-quality tutoring, including the award-winning Pencil Spaces virtual classroom.

Type of service
Technology Platform
Year Started
2020
Headquarter Location (City, State)
San Francisco, CA
States of Operation
Virtual
Operation Locations
Virtual
Most recent number of students served
5,000+
Grade Levels
Pre-Kindergarten,
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade,
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Setting
During School
Out of School
Delivery Mode
Blended
In-Person
Virtual
Organization Type
For Profit
Customer Type
District,Nonprofit,Parent,School,Student
Cost to District/ School/ Non-Profit
<$251
Contact Name
Benjamin Yee
Contact Email

The information contained in the Tutoring Database is a compilation of publicly available information and information voluntarily provided by the identified organizations. THIS DATABASE AND ALL ITS CONTENTS ARE PROVIDED AS IS and are for informational purposes only. Neither Brown University nor the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University nor the National Student Support Accelerator make any guarantees, warranties, or representations as to the accuracy or completeness of the database or the information it contains, and none assume any responsibility or liability for any errors or omissions that the database may contain. Use of this database is at the sole and exclusive risk of the user, and neither Brown University, nor the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, nor the National Student Support Accelerator shall have any liability for any claim, act, or omission arising out of or in connection with the use of the database.

The inclusion of an organization's information in the Tutoring Database does not indicate that Brown University, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, the National Student Support Accelerator, or any individual associated with these entities endorse or support that organization. The National Student Support Accelerator includes all tutoring programs it is aware of in the Tutoring Database. In contrast, the Accelerator uses the following inclusion criteria for academic intervention materials. To be included, interventions must: 1) have a randomized control trial or quasi-experimental study, 2) that produced an effect size of +0.20 or greater OR 3) have particularly high-quality instructional materials but do not yet have RCT or QES research.