Tutoring at Invently is direct, one-on-one teaching from Brian Carlson, a certified elementary teacher — for homeschoolers, and for children enrolled in school who are falling behind, fighting homework, or struggling to get organized. Subject help, homework systems, catching up or getting ahead — with a teacher who knows exactly what your child's classroom teacher expects.
$50/hour, one-on-one. Start with a free consultation.
$50/hour · one-on-one
Elementary subjects, K–5: reading, writing, and math at the core, plus the rest of the elementary day — science, social studies, and study skills — following what your child is actually working on.
Brian tutors high school students one-on-one in English, ELA, history, government, speech, philosophy, and the arts — the same direct teaching, at the same $50/hour.
We talk about your child: what is hard, what school is working on, what you have tried. No forms that ask for your life story — a conversation.
Brian names the gaps he sees and sets the order: what we teach first, and how we will know it is working.
Direct teaching, at your child's pace, on what your child is actually working on. For school families, sessions run after school or on weekends.
You hear how your child is doing in plain language — what improved, what comes next — from the teacher doing the teaching.
Your child's tutor is Brian Carlson: certified elementary teacher in Illinois and Texas, M.S. in Education, ten years in K–5 classrooms. Not a homework hotline, not a rotating cast of tutors, and not an app with a chat box. And if we discover that the real issue is not the subject but the systems around it — starting, organizing, following through — Brian will tell you, and coaching may be the better door. Honest first, always.
Every session is taught by Brian Carlson, a certified teacher in Illinois and Texas — background-checked and fingerprinted for certification and classroom teaching. Parents are welcome to sit in on any session, any time. And if you'd like to learn to run parts of the day yourself, Brian teaches parents, too — just ask.
Yes — that is half of what tutoring is for. School families book after-school and weekend sessions for subject help, homework systems, and catching up. Your child does not need to be homeschooled, and nothing about your school enrollment changes.
Elementary subjects, K–5: reading, writing, and math at the core, plus the rest of the elementary day — science, social studies, and study skills — following what your child is actually working on. For high school students: English, ELA, history, government, speech, philosophy, and the arts.
By video call, one-on-one. Your child works with Brian directly, and you get a plain-language update on progress.
At a company, your child gets whichever tutor is on shift and a program picked by a sales call. Here, your child gets one certified teacher who knows them, plans for them, and answers to you directly — at a per-hour price set in the open.
Then we say so. If your child understands the work but cannot start it, organize it, or finish it, the fix is coaching — executive-functioning and ADHD coaching live here too, with the same teacher. We will point you to the right door, even when it is a different one than you knocked on.
Or text TUTORING to 708-317-8828.
