When a student is a year behind, closing the gap may require a more targeted approach.
The Academic Performance Lab™ identifies the underlying skill gaps affecting a student's performance, develops a written plan to address them, provides explicit one-to-one instruction, and uses data to track progress.
Who the Lab is for.
The Academic Performance Lab is an intervention service, not general tutoring. A student is eligible when at least one of the following is true:
If the student mainly needs homework support, test preparation, subject-specific help, or general reinforcement, SEC will recommend Tutoring Services or another better fit instead of placing the student in a more intensive service.
Intervention follows the skill—not tonight's assignment.
Tutoring and intervention are both valuable, but they solve different problems. Tutoring is the right service when the need is homework help, subject reinforcement, or test preparation. The Lab is the right service when an underlying skill gap is driving the struggle.
Traditional Tutoring
Academic Performance Lab™
What it follows
The class — tonight's assignment
The underlying skill that is breaking down
Where it starts
When the session starts
With a baseline and a written goal
How progress is judged
Grades and impressions
Session data and progress reports
How it adapts
Responds to whatever comes up
Adapts the written plan when the data indicate a change
Endpoint
May continue hourly without a defined endpoint
A defined program with a use-by window and review point
A measured plan from first data point to next decision.
Clarify the target
Review concerns, records, instructional history, prior evaluations, and current demands.
Establish a usable baseline
Use brief curriculum- or criterion-referenced measures and error analysis, then write an individualized skill goal plan.
Teach explicitly and systematically
Model, guide accurate practice, correct errors promptly, review cumulatively, and apply the skill in increasingly authentic material.
Monitor and adapt
Collect performance data each session, compare the trend with the goal, and adjust pacing, practice, representation, or emphasis when needed.
Summarize the response
Describe growth, continuing needs, attendance and dosage context, and the recommended next instructional step.
Two skill areas, one individualized plan.
Reading & Literacy
May include:
Mathematics
May include:
The exact targets, materials, and pace are selected from available data and adjusted to the student's response. Enrollment does not mean every listed area will be addressed.
One method, developmentally matched.
Reading
Reading may emphasize foundational sound-symbol relationships, decoding, encoding, accuracy, and fluency.
Mathematics
Math may emphasize number sense, place value, part-whole reasoning, facts, and operations.
Approach
Shorter instructional cycles, high repetition, multisensory routines, movement, and pacing breaks where appropriate.
Families should be able to see what instruction is doing.
Baseline + goal plan
Intake, record review, a brief curriculum- or criterion-referenced baseline, and a written individualized skill goal plan are completed within the early sessions and included in the program.
SEC Progress Scorecard™
Performance and Accelerator include a concise scorecard every five sessions showing the target, data collected, observed trend, and current instructional response. It is a data snapshot, not a comprehensive narrative report.
Benchmark review
Performance and Accelerator include a benchmark assessment and report every 20 hours of instruction using the same type of brief curriculum- or criterion-referenced measure—not a formal standardized evaluation.
Formal standardized or diagnostic testing, eligibility opinions, extensive records analysis, school observations, and comprehensive reports are separate services.
Choose the intensity the gap requires.
Foundations
10 sessions · 1× weekly
Maintenance and consolidation for a narrow skill priority, holding gains after an intensive block, or a learner who retains and applies instruction with more time between sessions. Not designed to close a large gap on its own.
Performance
20 sessions · 2× weekly
Repeated instruction and enough data to adjust the plan within a school term.
Accelerator
30 sessions · 2–4× weekly
Concentrated instruction for a significant gap when the fit, schedule, and student stamina support the frequency; frequency may step down as performance stabilizes.
A standard appointment reserves 60 minutes—approximately 50 minutes of direct one-to-one instruction plus up to 10 minutes for documentation, scoring, scheduling, and brief follow-up.
Program investment.
Reading and mathematics use the same rates. A combined plan draws from the same session bank.
Foundations
10 sessions
Performance
20 sessions
Accelerator
30 sessions
$1,150
$2,070
$1,966.50 prepaid in full
$2,850
$2,565 prepaid in full
$1,250
$2,250
$2,137.50 prepaid in full
$3,120
$2,808 prepaid in full
$1,350
$2,430
$2,308.50 prepaid in full
$3,360
$3,024 prepaid in full
Elementary K–5
Foundations
10 sessions
$1,150
Performance
20 sessions
$1,966.50 prepaid in full
$2,070
Accelerator
30 sessions
$2,565 prepaid in full
$2,850
Middle School 6–8
Foundations
10 sessions
$1,250
Performance
20 sessions
$2,137.50 prepaid in full
$2,250
Accelerator
30 sessions
$2,808 prepaid in full
$3,120
High School 9–12
Foundations
10 sessions
$1,350
Performance
20 sessions
$2,308.50 prepaid in full
$2,430
Accelerator
30 sessions
$3,024 prepaid in full
$3,360
Pricing Notes
- Package totals include baseline measurement, the written skill goal plan, and the deliverables listed for that level.
- Reading and mathematics use the same rates; a combined plan draws from the same session bank.
- Performance and Accelerator may be paid in five equal biweekly payments at the standard package total—no administrative fee and no prepayment discount on the biweekly option.
- Foundations is prepaid in full.
- Credit/debit payments carry a 3% processing fee; ACH, check, and cash carry no SEC fee.
- Additional approved work is $175 per hour in 15-minute increments.
- Approved off-site delivery carries a $25 per-session charge.
2026–2027 program year; subject to change for future enrollments.
Clear deliverables by level.
Foundations
10 sessions · 12-week window
Performance
20 sessions · 16-week window
Accelerator
30 sessions · 24-week window
Research-supported principles, individualized application.
The Lab uses explicit instruction, guided practice, cumulative review, progress monitoring, and data-based individualization. These principles are applied to each student's actual data and response—not as a fixed curriculum. The sources below support general instructional principles and do not guarantee a particular student's result or validate every commercial curriculum.
Selected Sources
- Institute of Education Sciences (IES) practice guides — foundational reading K–3
- IES practice guides — reading intervention grades 4–9
- IES practice guides — adolescent literacy
- IES practice guides — mathematics intervention
- National Center on Intensive Intervention
- International Dyslexia Association — Structured Literacy guidance
- Nickow, Oreopoulos & Quan (2020) — tutoring effects
- Formative-assessment research
Listed to describe the foundation of our approach, not to claim endorsement by these organizations.
Academic Performance Lab FAQ
You are never the one relaying messages between specialists.
Families working across more than one of our practices get a single point of contact who oversees the whole plan. The college counselor, the executive function coach, and the academic specialists work from the same information about your student.
Bring what you have. We will help determine the right next step.
Report cards, test scores, an evaluation, or a teacher's note can help clarify the concern. SEC will tell you whether the Academic Performance Lab, general tutoring, testing, or another service is the better fit before enrollment.
For schools and professionals
Looking for an intervention partner, student referral pathway, or school contract? Contact SEC Experts HQ.
The Academic Performance Lab™ is a measured K–12 reading and mathematics intervention service of SEC Experts HQ | Savannah Educational Consultants. It is educational and performance-based, distinct from psychotherapy, medical treatment, diagnosis, crisis services, and legal advice. SEC does not guarantee grade gains, reading-score changes, or other specific outcomes. Serving the Coastal Empire and Southeast Georgia families in person and clients nationwide through online services when appropriate.
