Episode Details

I'm excited to share this episode where I chat with Mike Cohen and Mark Mobley from Cignition about their amazing work in high-dosage tutoring. We dive into how they're making learning more collaborative and engaging through their partnership with the Ohio Department of Education. Parents and teachers are loving what they're seeing, and it's clear there's a real need for this kind of personalized support in education today. By the end of our conversation, you'll learn exactly how your school can team up with Cignition to help your students succeed. If you are a new listener to TeacherCast, we would love to hear from you.  Please visit our Contact Page and let us know how we can help you today! To get our weekly Instructional Coaching Tips sent right to your inbox, please subscribe to our weekly newsletter.

Conversation Takeaways

• Cignition focuses on high-intensity tutoring to enhance student learning.
• Collaborative learning is key to deeper understanding in students.
• The company has a successful partnership with the Ohio Department of Education.
• Tutoring sessions are designed to be engaging and tailored to student needs.
• Mastery checks are integrated into lessons to measure student progress.
• Feedback from parents indicates significant improvements in student confidence.
• Tutors are trained to facilitate productive struggle among students.
• The relationship between tutors and teachers is crucial for student success.
• Cignition aims to fill educational gaps for students in need.
• Schools can easily partner with Cignition through their website.

Chapters

• 00:00 Introduction to Cignition and High-Intensity Tutoring
• 02:59 Partnership with Ohio Department of Education
• 05:56 Tutoring Methodology and Student Engagement
• 08:53 The Role of Tutors and Teacher Collaboration
• 12:11 Feedback and Recognition from Parents and Educators
• 14:57 Getting Started with Cignition

About our Guests:

Michael Cohen, Founder & CEO, Cignition Mike's career has straddled academic research and entrepreneurial activity, focused on helping human-centered technologies achieve positive real-world impact. He earned his PhD at UC Berkeley, has published more than 80 academic papers and one book, has been awarded 25 patents, and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2004. Mike founded Cignition in 2014, working with educators and a neuroscientist, with a goal of helping all students, especially those from traditionally underserved communities, achieve a deep understanding of mathematics (and extending to ELA more recently) - both to enable further learning and to be prepared for success in the workplaces of the future. Those goals led to a key focus on conceptual understanding and on collaborative learning, as well as a focus on measurement and constant data-driven improvement of all components of the products and services Cignition delivers. Mark Mobley, Program & Client Success Manager, Cignition Mark Mobley (M.Ed.) is completing his fourth year as a Client Success Manager for Cignition. For the past two years, he has been the lead manager for the Future Forward Ohio initiative, which has served 27 districts statewide. He spent 10 years as a secondary mathematics teacher in Georgia. Additionally, he has helped design, launch and lead two nonprofits, Georgia CALLS, a program training and employing returning citizens to prevent recidivism, and SAFFT, a program designed to train and restore families who have lost their children to state custody. He has also