how we run a class of eight without anyone falling behind

Ask any of our teachers what they'd never give up, and you'll get the same answer: the batch size. Eight children, one teacher, every session. It's the most expensive promise we make, and the most important.

a session, minute by minute

• The first ten minutes are speed drills — every child at their own level, all racing the same clock.
• The middle half hour is new material, taught in pairs or threes grouped by exactly where each child is.
• The last ten minutes are games: mental math relays, flash cards, teacher-versus-class.

Because there are only eight children, a teacher touches every child's work multiple times a session. A misunderstood technique gets caught the day it appears — not at the next assessment.

why not smaller? why not bigger?

Below six, the room loses its energy — children push harder with peers beside them. Above ten, the teacher starts triaging instead of teaching. Eight keeps both: enough buzz to race, enough attention that nobody hides.

In a class of thirty, a struggling child learns to be invisible. In a class of eight, there's nowhere to hide — and nothing to hide from.

Parents sometimes ask if we'll open bigger, cheaper batches. We won't. The batch size isn't a feature of the program — it is the program.