Peers working the same problem
A small founding group of district leaders builds alongside you, sharing what worked in their own communities as it happens.
The People Your Students Need May Already Live in Your Community
The talent is here. The pathway is not.
Bring two or three district leaders. Across three working sessions, your team will build and launch a real pathway for attracting, recognizing, and preparing community members for student-support roles — alongside a small group of Florida districts working on the same problem.
A Free Three-Session Working Cohort · Florida Districts Prioritized
You will not spend three sessions discussing a tutor pipeline. You will begin building one.
Founding cohort: a small number of districts, two to three leaders each. Participation is free. Florida districts receive priority; districts outside Florida are welcome to apply.
Applications close November 8, 2026 so we can keep the founding cohort small enough to build together.
You Should Not Have to Solve This Alone
Built With Your Peers—and With the Community Already Around Your Schools
District leaders are often asked to solve the tutor shortage inside their own system, using the same limited talent pool. This cohort puts other Florida leaders at the table with you.
Our team beside you throughout
People who have recruited, prepared, and supported tutors in South Florida schools sit in the sessions and stay reachable between them.
A community that may be waiting to be asked
Retirees, parents, college students, paraprofessionals, and career changers may already want to help. Together we create a credible way to invite them in.
There is no pressure to continue with us afterward. If the cohort helps your district and nothing else follows, that is a good outcome.
The Uncomfortable Truth
Florida Has More Potential Tutors Than Its Current Systems Can See
Capable adults across your area carry knowledge and lived experience students need, but no clear route into student support. The shortage is real — and part of it is a recognition problem.
The opportunity is not simply to recruit more people. It is to recognize who could become extraordinary and create a credible path for them to contribute.
- Community
- Attract
- Identify
- Activate
- Student Support
What We Need to Learn With the Founding Cohort
What We Need to Learn With the Founding Cohort
The first participating districts will help us answer:
- Which community invitations actually cause overlooked people to raise their hands?
- Which observable decisions distinguish someone who knows a subject from someone who can support a student?
- What prevents promising community members from moving from interest to readiness?
- What can Florida districts build once and share with one another?
You are not being asked to validate a finished answer. You are being invited to help build a better one.
What Florida Could Learn From This
This first cohort is about tutors. But the larger question is one Florida will keep facing: how do we recognize capability before conventional credentials make it visible?
Who it's for
This Is for Districts Ready to Expand Who Gets to Support Students
Florida district leaders who need more student-support capacity than the traditional educator pipeline can supply.
Who should participate—and when this is not a fit
- Students need more individualized support than current staffing allows.
- Community members want to help but lack a visible pathway.
- Existing screens do not reveal who can build trust and adapt to students.
Who should participate
- Superintendent or executive sponsor
- Academic or student-support leader
- Talent or human-resources leader
- Community or family-engagement leader
Participation can be adapted for smaller districts, charter networks, and other school systems. Florida districts receive priority; districts outside Florida are welcome to apply.
This Is Not For:
- Teams looking only for a temporary list of workers
- Teams unwilling to participate in three sessions of shared implementation
Why Jump Start
Built Through Real Work With Florida Schools, Tutors, and Students
District experience
Broward County Public Schools
Miami-Dade County Public Schools
The School District of Palm Beach County
Broward County Public SchoolsMiami-Dade County Public SchoolsThe School District of Palm Beach CountyJump Start holds contracts with Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach County Public Schools and is currently delivering in Miami-Dade.
- 8 years
- Working across South Florida education
- 3 districts
- Contracts with Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach County Public Schools
- 10,000+
- Students served
- 180+ points
- Average gains through Jump Start’s flagship SAT program
7 of 8
Across eight Miami-Dade public schools where Jump Start programming launched in March 2026, seven moved from D/F school grades to A/B grades within approximately ten weeks. The eighth reached a C+, only a few points shy of a B.
School grades reflect many factors, and Jump Start was one part of broader school-improvement efforts.
District endorsement
I highly recommend Jump Start Tutoring for any district, school system, or organization seeking a reliable, well-prepared, and student-focused tutoring partner.
Jump Start tutors have consistently demonstrated professionalism, instructional expertise, and a deep commitment to student success. Their work has been well aligned to classroom instruction and district priorities.
Founder
Why This Work Is Personal to Me
Chrissybil “Sybil” Boulin
Founder, Jump Start Tutoring
I was a high-school senior with a 4.8 GPA, president of three clubs, and a dream of attending Duke. I believed that if I worked hard enough, my ability would speak for itself.
Then I was waitlisted.
My mother was a Haitian immigrant raising me on her own. Private test preparation was not something we could afford. I had done everything I knew to do — but I did not have access to everything the system expected me to know.
I went from Florida State to Emory to the University of Cambridge. I started Jump Start with $500. Eight years later we work with Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach County Public Schools, and Forbes named me to its 30 Under 30 list for education.
Along the way I learned the same thing happens to adults. Some of the best tutors we have ever hired would never have made it past a résumé screen. Their capability was real. It simply arrived in an unexpected package.
That is why I am bringing this group together: so districts can find the capable people already living in their communities before a résumé, credential, or conventional job history makes the decision for them.
— Chrissybil “Sybil” Boulin
How it works
Three Working Sessions. One Live District-Owned Pipeline.
Your district begins with a fragmented path into tutoring. It leaves with a live, district-owned pipeline: real community interest, assessed candidates, and a first cohort moving toward readiness.
Working Session 1
Map and Position
Attract
Community Talent Map
The overlooked talent pools already near your schools, and how to reach each one.
Community Invitation Campaign
A ready-to-launch landing page, interest form, and outreach language.
Session agenda
- Identify the district’s most urgent student-support gaps
- Select the priority tutor or student-support role
- Map the community members and institutions already connected to the district
- Build the message and invitation pathway
Working Session 2
Attract and Recognize
Identify
Tutor Success Profile
Your district’s definition of an effective tutor, grounded in judgment rather than résumés.
Candidate Decision Reports
What each candidate’s decision patterns reveal, plus the questions to probe further.
Session agenda
- Launch the community invitation
- Examine real expressions of interest
- Build the district’s Tutor Success Profile
- Use observable decisions and behaviors to identify potential — not résumés alone
- Prepare structured questions for candidate conversations
Working Session 3
Select and Activate
Activate
Onboarding Pathway
One repeatable route from interest through selection, preparation, and readiness.
30-Day Activation Plan
Who does what in the first month — candidates, owners, and weekly milestones.
Session agenda
- Review the first candidates together
- Determine who should advance
- Build the pathway from interest to preparation and readiness
- Assign owners, checkpoints, and immediate next actions
- Leave with the first cohort moving toward onboarding
Before and during the sessions
Before the First Working Session
We send a brief prework packet so the first session starts with building instead of information gathering.
- Select the priority tutor role
- Confirm the district participants
- Identify approval requirements
- Approve the campaign launch timeline
This Is Shared Work, Not Group Training
Each 90-minute session follows the same rhythm:
- 01
Name what is happening now
One district brings a real student-support or tutor-pipeline challenge into the room.
- 02
Examine one uncomfortable truth
We identify what the current process or assumption may be preventing the district from seeing.
- 03
Work with a usable framework
Each team applies it to its own students, roles, community, and constraints.
- 04
Pressure-test it with peers
Other district leaders contribute questions and experiences — not generic advice.
- 05
Commit to one real action
Every team leaves with something to implement before the next session.
Your district receives the benefit of the room — and contributes something the others could not have learned without you.
Jump Start brings
- The framework and facilitation
- Working templates and implementation tools
- Tutor-selection methodology
- Vero’s Lived Experience Assessment and Candidate Decision Reports
Your district brings
- Two or three decision-makers
- Knowledge of existing community relationships
- Approval to launch outreach to its own community
Participating districts approve campaign materials and candidate progression within agreed turnaround times. District-controlled requirements — background checks, fingerprinting, contracting, compensation, and final authorization — remain under the district’s authority and may continue after the three sessions.
When the Lesson Stops Going as Planned
What Does an Effective Tutor Do When the Script Disappears?
Vero supplements — not replaces — qualifications, background checks, interviews, and district judgment. It is not a personality test and does not decide who should become a tutor.
What Vero looks for
Subject knowledge matters — but tutoring outcomes are often determined by what happens after the lesson stops going as planned.
- Can the tutor recognize when a student is confused but unwilling to say so?
- Adapt an explanation without lowering expectations?
- Build trust while maintaining boundaries?
- Recover after a difficult interaction?
- Know when to persist and when to ask for help?
Across more than 100,000 outcomes, 97% of the behavioral patterns we observed fit within 12 recurring areas of judgment. Vero’s Education Taxonomy turns those moments into observable decision patterns your district uses to build its own Tutor Success Profile.
A Five-Minute Working Exercise
Try the framework yourself
The Student Support Judgment Map walks you from a student outcome back to the observable behavior behind it. No email required.
Map a Student-Support RoleThe real cost
What Does It Cost?
No district fee. Your investment is your team’s time.
We are offering the founding cohort at no cost because we want to build it alongside a small group of Florida district leaders and incorporate their feedback before expanding it.
All three sessions run from 6–7:30 p.m. Eastern. We skip Thanksgiving week.
- Founding cohort start date
- November 16, 2026
- Application deadline
- November 8, 2026
- Founding cohort size
- A small number of districts; Florida districts prioritized
- Session schedule
- November 16, November 30, and December 7, 2026 · 6–7:30 p.m. Eastern each day. Three 90-minute working sessions, plus between-session implementation support.
- District participants
- Two to three district leaders
- Cohort investment
- No district fee for the founding cohort
We skip Thanksgiving week. The three-session cohort runs from November 16 through December 7. Strong-fit applicants who cannot join these dates may be invited to a later group.
Your district owns its completed maps, profiles, campaign language, pathway, and activation plan. Vero’s assessment technology, taxonomy, and underlying intellectual property remain licensed.
Guided use of Vero’s Lived Experience Assessment and Candidate Decision Reports during the sprint is included for the founding cohort. Continued access afterward is optional and scoped separately.
Questions
What District Leaders Ask Us First
Does this replace teachers?
No. Tutors do not replace certified teachers. They expand the number of capable adults available to support students alongside teachers.
Will we have a fully deployed tutor workforce after three sessions?
Your district launches a real campaign, assesses real candidates, selects the strongest, and begins onboarding its first cohort. Background checks, contracting, and final authorization remain yours and may continue beyond the three sessions.
What support is available after the sprint?
The founding cohort ends with a 30-Day Activation Plan your district can continue using. If participants identify shared work they want to continue, we will decide what that could look like together after the cohort. Nothing additional is required.
Application
Apply for the Founding Florida Cohort
This takes about three minutes. Tell us who you are, what your district needs, and who would participate.
Sybil reviews applications every week and follows up personally. Applications close November 8, 2026, and the founding cohort is limited to a small number of districts. Florida districts receive priority; districts outside Florida are welcome to apply.
What Happens After You Apply
- 1Sybil reviews your application within the same week.
- 2She emails you personally to set up a short readiness conversation — about 20 minutes, no presentation.
- 3If the fit is right, your district receives joining details before the November 16 start. Sessions: November 16, November 30, and December 7, 2026 · 6–7:30 p.m. Eastern each day.