the kids AREN’T ALRIGHT
Gen-z reading tutoring
1:1 attention building
tech lifestyle planning
So many students struggle to get through a full book, or even a few chapters these days.
Literacy has been slipping from us for years, against our best wishes.
But we can build it back.
The REAL PROBLEM
The kids are not dumb.
They’re up against a grave attentional crisis.
Attention is a learned capacity, and our technological environment has trained the youth to use a very specific form of attention—namely, the kind that is easiest for social media companies to turn into money. Short-spanned attention is great for profit margins, but it’s catastrophic for our ability to be in the world, to be with each other, to plumb the infinite depths of human experience.
Rediscovering focus
As older members of Gen-Z ourselves, we’ve learned that there are no shortcuts when it comes to rebuilding your attention span. Cognitive abilities are like muscles—they need time, exercise, and nourishment to grow.
Our methods are based on long-term psychology research, experience tutoring middle- and high-schoolers, and community-building with the Strother School of Attention in Brooklyn.
We’ve escaped the influence of the most extractive digital technologies. And we are grateful to pay it forward—to encourage gritty experimentation in our students, so they may live the lives they’re meant to.
your guides
We are dedicated to serving our Gen-Z peers, as well as Gen Alpha.
Whether in middle school, high school, or college, it’s never too late for deep reading to transform you—