Little Lights Tutoring- Tutoring Services Contract

A message from our owner and founder:

Thank you for choosing Little Lights Tutoring, a Lightning Bolt Ministry.

I am pleased to share this therapeutic learning experience with you. By joining this movement to empower children with and without challenges, you are acknowledging the undeniable, inseparable Christ Mind that is in the foundations of this calling on my life. As your paraeducator, my contribution to you and your family will push beyond the tutor-student model, achieving the master skill of informing with inspiration. Information without inspiration is invaluable. I understand that this calling on my life is to help train and develop the beautiful, treasured divine design to every child. This is how you can watch your child blossom into their divine design just like I did. Thank you for seeing the value in your child and trusting me to honor their Light!
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                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               ~ Kiara Farmer

Tutoring Rate: $50 per 1 hour session

Payment:

Payment must be made in cash, Zelle (payable to Little Lights Tutoring, kfarmer@littlelightstutoring.org). Payments are due 24 hours before, at the beginning or at the end of each tutoring session. Payment must be received or tutoring services will be discontinued. If payment is not submitted within that time, your account will be moved to a month-to-month payment plan. Any payment exceeding the agreed upon fee will be considered a tip or donation to Little Lights Tutoring. No donation will be accepted in exchange for any preferential or special treatment, extra services, free services or skewed data. I offer true, honest services and cannot be persuaded with money or gifts to appease any parent or student desires. Each student will receive a one-on-one or group tutoring session, a Student Hub that contains a Monthly Planner which will house materials and lesson plans and a Progress Monitoring Data spreadsheet that will track student progression with data directly from completed activities from lesson plans. These are the services that will not change or be altered based on any gift, monetary donation or persuasion from any party. 

Choose your payment frequency and please write the agreed upon price. You can pay weekly, biweekly, monthly or yearly. 

Please indicate whether you would like to receive invoices. All invoices will be sent at the frequency indicate below:

 Weekly      Biweekly     Monthly          Yearly     

Arrival and Departure:

If meeting in a public space, students should arrive five minutes prior to their session, will be picked up at the front door of the meeting place (library door or reserved library room) by the paraeducator, and remain for the full session. Parents are more than welcome to attend tutoring sessions. Students who are late will only be tutored for the remainder of their scheduled session. Time will be made up on a case-by-case basis. Students should be picked up at the front door promptly at the end of their session. There is no penalty for being late. Full tuition is still due at time of service and will not be prorated. If you are going to be late picking your student up, please contact your paraeducator. If you exceed 5 minutes for any reason, there will be a $3.00 per minute waiting charge that will take effect at the 6th minute. 

Cancellations: 

Parent cancellation- 

Should it be necessary for a parent to cancel a session, the paraeducator must be notified as soon as possible, and no later than 9:30 pm the night before tutoring. Please be considerate of the scheduled tutoring dates and plan around them. Missed sessions will be rescheduled according to availability. If a session is missed without the proper notification, the session will be billed at half tuition rate and payment is expected at the intended session start time (excluding emergency situations). Emergency situations are; sudden sickness of a student or parent, recent family loss, recent car trouble and home emergency. 

Paraeducator Cancellation- 

Should it be necessary for the paraeducator to cancel a session, the paraeducator will contact you by 9:30pm the night before tutoring. The paraeducator will be considerate of the scheduled tutoring dates and will plan around them. If the paraeducator cancels, the paraeducator will try to reschedule for another time. There is information below for ways to contact the paraeducator. No payment will be expected until rescheduled services are rendered. If you choose to pay biweekly, monthly or yearly, your payment will be credited to cover the next scheduled tutoring date. If the paraeducator is late for any reason, the paraeducator will promptly reach out to the student’s parents and time will be made up to complete the entire session duration.

Student Portal:

TutorBird is a platform that can be used to check your student’s attendance, download invoices, schedule and reschedule tutoring sessions and access to extra learning materials. This is a secure platform used by para-educator s to streamline transactions, attendance, scheduling, holding student data, IEP meeting notes and information. All information is kept private and only your para educator and admin can see your student’s information. Please initial below if you agree or disagree to using this platform.

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Contact Information:

Your paraeducator: Kiara Farmer      Phone:443-420-8509    Email:kfarmer@littlelightstutoring.org