Your students need more support.
Your teachers shouldn’t have to carry all of it.
The adults your students need may already be in your community. Jump Start turns overlooked local talent into a qualified student-support team — and manages the people, operations, support, and visibility behind it.
- Serving South Florida since 2018
- K–12 academic support
- School-based tutoring
- District-approved provider
Contracts with Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach County Public Schools.
Sometimes a school doesn’t need another program.
It needs another capable adult beside a student.
Schools are being asked to improve outcomes while teachers, interventionists, administrators, and support staff are already carrying enormous workloads.
Jump Start gives schools additional tutoring capacity without asking the existing school team to recruit, prepare, schedule, support, monitor, and manage an entirely new tutor workforce.
- We recruit.
- We assess.
- We prepare.
- We support.
- We learn from the work.
Miami-Dade Case Study
8 schools.
10 weeks.
The eight schools Jump Start was assigned to support entered the implementation rated D or F.
Approximately ten weeks later:
The eighth reached C+, only a few points shy of a B.
School performance is shaped by many people, interventions, and factors. Jump Start was one part of that work.
The results were visible.
So was the work underneath them.
Throughout the implementation, Jump Start tutors were documenting what was actually happening with students: session notes, attendance, reflections, academic progress, student engagement, instructional adaptations, check-ins, interventions, and what needed to happen next.
That evidence gave Jump Start something an end-of-program report cannot:
A view into the decisions being made while learning was happening.
What great tutoring actually looks like.
The most important tutoring decisions rarely show up on a timesheet.
From the Field · Miami-Dade
“He knew the answer, but he didn’t know how he got there.”
Tutor reflection · Week 4
A student was reaching correct answers he couldn’t explain. Marlene began asking him to narrate his choices — Why did you choose that formula? — shifting the work from practicing for correctness toward understanding his own thinking.
12% → 74%
Documented proficiency progression by Week 10
What Jump Start could see
From the Field · Miami-Dade
The lesson wasn’t working.
So Michelle changed the lesson.
Michelle noticed her students were exhausted by the end of the school day, and another conventional reading lesson wasn’t landing. Instead of labeling them disengaged, she adapted the delivery — bringing music and movement into the lesson while preserving the academic objective.
Documented evidence
Session log: May 21 · 95% attendance documented for the relevant implementation context · Supported by assistant-principal feedback
What Michelle noticed
From the Field · Miami-Dade
Great tutoring means very little if the tutor doesn’t show up.
Schools shouldn’t have to become the operations department for their tutoring vendor. During the Miami-Dade implementation, Jump Start’s system detected a missing tutor check-in and a substitute was dispatched — without the school having to discover the problem and chase the vendor.
Documented evidence
Automated check-in record · Dispatch timestamp · School/principal feedback
What the school experiences
Across eight schools, the records surfaced patterns
60%
reduction in time-to-completion on multi-step problems during the final three weeks.
98%
session retention after students entered the second week of the program.
Observed implementation data — patterns we watched, not proof of singular causation.
From our tutors’ session notes · Miami-Dade
Small moments that show real learning.
The self-correction
“Wait, that doesn’t make sense if the last one was ten.”
A student stopped mid-problem and caught their own mistake before the tutor said a word. That’s a student building understanding, not guessing to please an adult.
The shift in voice
From “I don’t know” to “Can we try it this way?”
Tutors noticed students moving from waiting for answers to suggesting their own approach — from receiving school to taking part in learning.
Students are kept anonymous.
The school experiences the tutoring.
Jump Start manages the infrastructure underneath it.
In their words
Don’t take our word for it.
“I highly recommend Jump Start Tutoring for any district, school system, or organization seeking a reliable, well-prepared, and student-focused tutoring partner.”
Monica Evans, Ed.S
District Supervisor, Instructional Support · Educational Transformation Office, Miami-Dade County Public Schools
“Their team has shown a genuine commitment to helping students succeed academically and has been a valued part of our afterschool programming.”
Magaly Prezeau, MPH
CEO / Executive Director, Community Access Center
Traditional tutoring reports tell you that the session happened.
We want to know what happened inside the session.
Jump Start tutors document
- attendance
- skills worked on
- student engagement
- session notes
- what worked
- what didn’t
- student support needs
- academic progress
- what should happen next
Leadership can also see
- tutor check-ins
- observations
- coverage needs
- compliance
- follow-up
- school-level patterns
- academic outcomes
The next session shouldn’t start from zero.
The system preserves what the work produces — so every session leaves evidence for the next one.
Jordan R.
Grade 7 · Reading
Session note · Week 4
“He got the answer right but couldn’t explain how. I asked him to walk me through his choice instead of moving on.”
Daily work → evidence → better decisions.
We look beyond the résumé.
Knowing the content matters. But tutoring also requires judgment — what someone does when a student shuts down, when the explanation isn’t working, when a student needs confidence before instruction. Before placement, Vero’s Lived Experience Assessment (LEA) helps us understand how a tutor tends to make decisions, adapt, build trust, and respond to difficulty.
Before the school
LEA
How someone tends to operate
Inside the school
Sessions + observations + reflections + outcomes
What they actually do
Over time
Better support · Better placement · Better decisions
We don’t stop at predicting who may be a strong tutor.
We watch what happens once they’re actually in the school.
Powered by Vero
Same school. Same systems. Different results. The difference is often judgment — how people adapt, build trust, and decide when conditions change. Vero measures that judgment. Across 100,000+ outcomes, Vero identified 12 judgment patterns capturing 97% of the frontline behaviors observed.
Jump Start attracts, prepares, and deploys tutors. Vero identifies the judgment, adaptability, and trust they need to support students.
You shouldn’t have to wonder what’s happening in tutoring.
Jump Start’s school reporting is designed to give leaders useful information without burying them in operational noise.
Monthly School Report
Sample Middle School · March
128
Sessions delivered
94%
Student attendance
23
Students served
100%
Tutor coverage
Skills being worked on
- Multi-step problem solving
- Explaining reasoning aloud
- Reading fluency & stamina
Student wins
- 3 students moved up a reading level
- Attendance up for 5 students
- 2 students began attempting work independently
Students needing additional school support
2 students flagged for follow-up — attendance barriers and a possible classroom accommodation to review together.
Recommended next steps
- Align tutor focus with upcoming unit plan
- Coordinators check-in with 2 flagged students
- Continue current schedule
The school sees what helps it support students. Jump Start manages tutor workforce intelligence underneath.
You can spend tutoring dollars on hours. Or build capacity around every hour.
Your teachers should remain central to student support. Jump Start adds something different: more capable adults, plus the infrastructure that makes each hour more likely to happen, more useful when it does, and more informative for what comes next.
| Capability | School-run tutoring | Traditional tutoring vendor | Jump Start |
|---|---|---|---|
| Will my students get more adult support? | Yes, if staff have time | Yes, hours are added | Yes, trained tutors added |
| Who handles staffing and coverage? | Your team | The vendor | We do, including substitutes |
| Are tutors checked for judgment before placement? | Rarely, no capacity to screen | Usually a résumé and background check | Yes, scenario-based assessment |
| Will anyone know what's working? | Lives in individual teachers' heads | Session logs, rarely reviewed | Yes, recorded every session |
| Does the next session build on the last? | Depends on who shows up | Often a standard plan, no record of what worked last time | Yes, the next tutor sees it |
| Will my school see useful reports? | Only if someone builds them | Mostly attendance and hours | Yes, monthly, with next steps |
| Does delivery improve over time? | Not systematically | Decisions stay with each tutor; not systematically reviewed | Yes, tutor decisions are reviewed |
This is the model behind the eight Miami-Dade schools above, where Jump Start was one part of each school's broader effort.
Your investment doesn’t only buy tutoring hours. It builds capacity around your students — without asking your team to carry another operation.
You bring us the students.
We help carry the operation.
Understand the Need
We learn about the students, academic priorities, schedule, and school environment.
Build the Team
Jump Start recruits, assesses, prepares, and matches tutors.
Run the Work
Tutors teach. Jump Start manages scheduling, documentation, support, coverage, and oversight.
Learn & Adjust
Evidence from actual sessions helps the team understand what’s working, what needs attention, and where support should change.
How we build the tutor team
Attract
People whose experience could make them exceptional tutors.
Identify
The judgment, adaptability, and trust students need.
Prepare
Tutors for the realities of the role.
Deploy
And strengthen them through real performance data.
Using Vero’s Lived Experience Assessment, we recognize capabilities traditional credentials often miss — then train tutors around their decision patterns so they can strengthen those capabilities in students.
Jump Start manages the people, scheduling, and support around your school.
I built Jump Start because I’ve spent much of my life thinking about who gets seen as capable.
I’m a Haitian-American, Cambridge-trained economist. I went from Florida State to Emory to the University of Cambridge — but the education that shaped this work happened in Haiti, where I kept watching extraordinary people get overlooked because nothing on a résumé could show what they had lived.
I founded Jump Start in 2018 so more students would have someone beside them who could see what they were capable of becoming.
The same question led me to Vero: how do you see capability a résumé can’t show? AI can replicate what we know. It cannot replicate the judgment built through what we’ve lived. I call that judgment, adaptability, agency, and resilience Lived Capital™.
Districts may not solve the teacher shortage quickly. They can widen the pool of capable adults supporting students — and that is where we start. Not another adult in the room. The right adult beside the student, supported to keep getting better.
Chrissybil “Sybil” Boulin
Founder, Jump Start Tutoring Center + Vero Learning
University of Cambridge · Forbes 30 Under 30
Honored with Chrissybil Boulin Day by North Miami and North Miami Beach
One provider, more than tutoring
Tutoring is where we start — not where we stop.
Beyond intervention, the same provider can support your students across the full arc of their academic journey:
SAT / ACT / FSA prep
Practice tests, test-taking strategies, and customized study plans. Our flagship SAT program has produced average gains of 180+ points.
Financial literacy
A dedicated class covering credit scores and credit cards, the real cost of things, savings, mortgages, paying for college, buying a house, and starting a business.
Career guidance
Career planning built on each student's own judgment — helping them identify paths that fit them and map out how to get there, before graduation.
Subject tutoring
Math, reading and writing, science, history, electives, and ESL.
Homeschooling programs
Full K–12 curriculum with personalized pacing, in person or online.
Summer programs
Prevent summer learning loss and help students get ahead.
Talk with Sybil about combining any of these with your tutoring program — one vendor agreement, one point of contact.
You don’t need a district-wide initiative
Sometimes a school doesn’t need another program. It needs another capable adult beside a student.
Jump Start partners directly with Christian and other faith-based schools, charter schools and networks, independent schools, and other K–12 organizations. We work as an extension of your team — aligning with your priorities, working around your school’s reality, providing qualified tutors, documenting delivery, and monitoring student progress.
Two ways to get involved
Now enrolling · Begins November 2026
Student Support Community Sprint
We keep calling it a tutor shortage. The people are often already here — the infrastructure to find them is missing. In three weeks, Florida district teams build their own community tutor pipeline with us. Free for the founding cohort. Not a webinar.
- Week 1: Find the overlooked talent already in your community.
- Week 2: Define what makes a great tutor — and build the campaign to reach them.
- Week 3: Build selection, onboarding, preparation, and a 30-day activation pathway.
Your district keeps everything: a Community Talent Map, recruitment language, campaign assets, tutor-fit criteria, interview guidance, the Lived Experience Assessment, onboarding tools, and an implementation tracker. No obligation to buy anything afterward.
Commitment: 2–3 district leaders, 90 minutes per week.
Coming in 2027
Florida Lived Experience Expo
A hiring event built around capabilities earned through lived experience. Schools can meet and hire tutors and teachers. Workforce organizations can invite their talent to apply. Employer partners can hire.
Schools develop capability. Workforce organizations connect it to opportunity. Employers validate it through performance.
Tell us what your students need.
You may already know exactly what kind of support you want — or you may simply know that some students need more time, more attention, or another capable adult in their corner. Start there.
We’ll help you determine whether Jump Start is the right fit and what support could look like at your school.
What happens when you reach out
- 1. You send a note or book a time. Use the form below or pick a time on Sybil’s calendar.
- 2. Sybil follows up personally. She’ll learn about your students, schedule, and goals.
- 3. We shape a plan together. If it’s a fit, we outline what support could look like at your school.
Want to learn more about Jump Start first? Visit jumpstarttutors.com.
What the conversation looks like
- You tell us about your students, schedule, and priorities.
- We tell you honestly whether Jump Start is the right fit.
- If it is, we design the support around your school — not the other way around.
District-approved provider. Tutoring and programs built around your students.
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