Cignition was founded in 2014 with the mission of building conceptual understanding, one engaged learner at a time. Our first offering was the award-winning FogStone Isle virtual world math supplement used by hundreds of thousands of elementary and middle school students and their teachers nationwide. We were awarded a grant through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative, and Schmidt Futures in 2018 for the research & development of our data-informed tutoring program utilizing highly experienced certified teachers as tutors. We piloted our tutoring program through the 2018-2019 school year and completed a Randomized Controlled Trial (RCT) in early 2020 at which time we broadly launched Cignition tutoring to school districts nationwide. We were awarded an additional grant through the Gates and Overdeck Family foundations to continue our work in extending data-informed tutoring with a focus on collaborative learning. In our groundbreaking result we showed that, with 4:1 (student to tutor ratio) tutoring, we could cut costs of tutoring and the number of required tutors by a factor of 4 while IMPROVING learning.
