((PKG)) FREE ONLINE TUTORING ((TRT: 05:35)) ((Banner: Free Online Tutoring)) ((Reporter: Faiza Elmasry)) ((Camera/Editor: June Soh)) ((Map: McLean, Virginia; Fairfax, Virginia)) ((Main characters: 2 male; 1 female)) ((Sub characters: 1 male; 1 female)) ((NATS: Ben Joel and Ella)) Hey Ella. How you’re doing? Good. My name is Ben. It’s nice to meet you. All right, great. So, we'll just be doing a little tutoring session. A mother bird sat on her egg. ((Ben Joel, Co-founder & CEO, Intutorly)) We tutor kids all the way from kindergarten up to eighth grade in math, reading, writing, science, social studies. ((NATS: Ben Joel and Alex Joel)) Oh, here we have Gabriel. He says he has some previous tutoring experience in preschool to second grade tutoring. Oh look, he knows Spanish. Yeah, yeah. That's great! ((Ben Joel, Co-founder & CEO, Intutorly)) Also, we've expanded into English as a second language and we're now offering Spanish, Chinese and French language instruction. ((NATS)) ((Ben Joel, Co-founder & CEO, Intutorly)) We read the news a lot and we saw many articles coming out about the learning losses due to COVID. And in those articles, they were talking about how this, our generation could be severely set back due to all the learning loss. And Alex and I found that very troubling. ((Alex Joel, Co-founder, Intutorly)) So, we decided to use our windfall of free time during shutdown to create Intutorly which is an organization dedicated to providing that educational support and fixing the issues caused in education by the pandemic. ((NATS: Ben Joel and Alex Joel)) So, this is our website, Intutorly.org, and the first thing you'll see is I want to become a student or I want to become a tutor. ((Alex Joel, Co-founder, Intutorly)) We very quickly grew from just a local organization to one that's now national and international. Thanks to our social media outreach efforts and the spread of word of mouth, we are now in 23 states and three other countries. ((NATS: Ben Joel and Alex Joel)) We also have a writing tutor here from Tennessee so we can match them. All right, great. That's a good match. I’ll send them an introduction email. Yeah. ((Ben Joel, Co-founder & CEO, Intutorly)) Intutorly is a matchmaking service. We connect our tutors with our students. So currently, we have about 275 tutors and around 280 students. ((NATS: Ben Joel, Alex Joel and Shelby Wilcox)) How you've been working with your students, like, what are some tactics you’ve employed? I like to incorporate different interests that they have into my lessons. So, one of my students is really into Harry Potter and the books. That’s nice. So, I like to have her write and read and I taught her speech and debate. So, she gave speeches on Harry Potter. Oh, that's so funny. Yeah. Yeah, that's a great way to combine her interest with the subject matter. ((Shelby Wilcox, Tutor, Intutorly)) I go to school with Ben and Alex. The three of us compete on the speech and debate team together. So, when they first started the organization, they recruited me as one of their first tutors. ((NATS)) ((Courtesy: Intutorly.org)) So, my high (point) was that I’ve had five sessions with Delila so far. French. And I think in the beginning, she was kind of like hesitant. She wasn’t like super engaged. It was like kind of awkward, but now she’s getting more into it. That’s great to hear. I’ve a suggestion, sometime..... ((Ben Joel, Co-founder & CEO, Intutorly)) The main way we connect with them is through our weekly meetings. We have these meetings every Sunday. ((Shelby Wilcox, Tutor, Intutorly)) It's really helpful to get different ideas and inspirations from other tutors. For example, one tutor shared that they actually joke, give a joke to their student before every meeting. And I thought that was a good idea. So, now I do that with my students. And I also think that sharing resources is really important. ((NATS)) ((Courtesy: Shelby Wilcox)) ((NATS: Shelby Wilcox and Alek)) So today, we’ll start with some division problems, like we normally do to warm you up. So, let me pull those up. I’ll try to do this by myself. OK, perfect. Just let me know when you're done. ((Shelby Wilcox, Tutor, Intutorly)) I tutor two students right now and I'm also in the process of getting in touch with a parent of a third student. ((NATS: Shelby Wilcox and Alek)) ((Courtesy: Shelby Wilcox)) So, I think the answer is ten, 10,125, remainder one. Perfect! That's exactly right. ((Shelby Wilcox, Tutor, Intutorly)) One of my students is named Alek. He is a third grader and I'm tutoring him in math and writing. ((Courtesy: Shelby Wilcox)) But we mainly focus on math. ((Alek, Student)) I like everything we learn. We, she, whenever we're doing something, she makes it fun, like she makes it really fun for me to do. ((NATS)) Look, I made SpongeBob Square! ((Tanya, Alek’s Mom)) Staying with three kids at home during pandemic is extremely challenging. On top of that, I have a full-time job. So, I have to provide for my kids, take care of them, give them all enough attention and do my job on top of it. ((Tanya, Alek’s Mom)) I have signed up Alek for Intutorly back in June. And from the very beginning, I was very impressed with this program. ((NATS: Shelby Wilcox and Alek)) ((Courtesy: Shelby Wilcox)) So, let's try another problem. ((Shelby Wilcox, Tutor, Intutorly)) The students have taught me so many lessons and their willingness to learn and their, and how engaged they are has inspired me to do the same in my life as well. ((NATS: Ben Joel)) Hi Henry. So today, we're going to be looking at your writing sample. ((Ben Joel, Co-founder & CEO, Intutorly)) I think that Alex and I have benefited a lot from our education and I think it's time for us to give back. And that's really what Intutorly really is, is us and all high school volunteers giving back to the community and giving back to the students who need it most. ((NATS: Ben Joel)) He could not fly, but he could walk.