Coach, not tutor
Like an expert tennis coach, StarCoach develops the moves students can use independently—not just the answer to the problem in front of them.
A structured, teacher-directed Strategy Coaching program for middle school mathematics
Always free for teachers. No credit card. No trial deadline.
The tutoring trap
On-demand tutoring begins with the immediate task: the student brings a question, and the tutor helps the student get through it. That can be useful, but the interaction is usually organized around the problem rather than a long-term development plan.
Students who are least likely to recognize that they need help—or to ask for it—can remain outside the experience entirely.
The coaching difference
StarCoach includes more than 100 expert-designed Coaching Workshops. Each has a defined learning goal, coaching progression, and problem-solving strategy. Teachers assign the Workshop, so support does not depend on a student initiating the interaction.
Across the program, students learn how to comprehend, translate, execute, represent, handle multi-select reasoning, and approach performance tasks.
What changes for students
A deliberate arc
The coach follows a designed instructional sequence instead of improvising around whichever problem appears that day.
Visible thinking
Conversation and scratchpad work reveal the reasoning, allowing the coach to respond to the misconception rather than only the answer.
Independence
Strategies recur across Workshops so students can recognize when to use them without waiting for a tutor to take the lead.
Inside a Coaching Workshop
Teachers choose the Workshop and the students. StarCoach coaches each student through the designed sequence, one focused move at a time.
The student identifies what is known, what is being asked, and which language or representation needs attention.
The student draws, organizes, translates, or calculates on the scratchpad so the reasoning becomes visible.
StarCoach identifies the next productive question or hint without taking the mathematical decision away from the student.
The student names what worked and meets the strategy again in a new context, building a move that can travel.
From a Bellevue classroom
“It’s a godsend.”
Marco Navas · Teacher of the Bellevue pilot cohort
Students who had been reluctant to ask questions began engaging with StarCoach, and many returned voluntarily at night and on weekends to keep learning.
See the Bellevue pilot evidence →Questions educators ask
Strategy Coaching is StarCoach’s teacher-directed method for developing transferable mathematical thinking. Students work through expert-designed Coaching Workshops that teach how to comprehend, represent, translate, and execute—not only how to obtain an answer.
An assigned problem gives the AI a task to respond to. A Coaching Workshop gives the student a designed learning sequence with a goal, anticipated misconceptions, coaching moves, reflection, and transfer across problems.
No. Teachers choose the Workshops, students, groups, and cadence. StarCoach expands the teacher’s reach while preserving instructional direction and teacher judgment.
No. Asking questions is one coaching behavior, not the program. The differentiation is the expert-designed Workshop sequence, recurring strategy method, teacher assignment, visible reasoning, and continuous development over time.
Start with your students
Try always-free Coaching Workshops—or begin with a focused school pilot.