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Delivering in Florida — measured on the state's own FAST scores.
In our Holmes County cohort, FAST ELA growth of 2.5–3.2× the state's typical — across 29 students in Grades 3–5.
Prepared by Purple Ruler · Daniel Demarmels (CEO) · daniel.demarmels@purpleruler.com. An existing Florida Tutoring Advantage provider delivering K-5 tutoring in Holmes County. Use ← → or the dots to move through.
Three things make this the year to move your lowest readers.
📊FAST measures growth 3× a year
PM1, PM2 and PM3 track every student on the state's own scale. Growth is visible mid-year, not just in spring — the same window our tutoring blocks move students inside.
⏳The 3rd-grade gate
A Level 1 on FAST ELA in Grade 3 means retention unless a good-cause exemption. The cost of a child not moving is a repeated year — exactly the risk high-dosage tutoring is funded to remove.
🎓Your school grade is mostly growth
For an elementary school, four of seven graded components are learning gains — and two of those are the learning gains of your lowest 25%. The students tutoring serves are the students who move your grade.
🤝B.E.S.T. + a funded lane
B.E.S.T. standards are fully in effect, and Florida Tutoring Advantage (UF Lastinger Center) already funds high-dosage tutoring — the lane we're delivering in Holmes County today.
Sources: FDOE FAST progress-monitoring model · Florida third-grade reading law · FDOE 2024-25 Guide to Calculating School Grades · Florida Tutoring Advantage / UF Lastinger Center. We track the accountability rules so your team doesn't have to.
Growth in your lowest 25% is the highest-leverage point you can earn.
📈Learning gains — over half your grade
Four of the seven components are gains. A student moving up within or across achievement levels on FAST counts — precisely what a 10-week small-group block produces.
🎯The lowest 25% count twice
Your lowest-performing quartile drives their own two components and the all-student gains. Move them, and you earn on both — the single highest-value dollar in the formula.
🧒Won in the elementary years
The earlier a child is moved from below-benchmark to on-track, the more years your school banks the points — and the further from the 3rd-grade gate they sit.
Component structure from the FDOE 2024-25 Guide to Calculating School Grades (elementary schools are graded on ELA/Math/Science achievement plus ELA & Math learning gains and lowest-25% learning gains). Widths illustrative of the seven equally-weighted components.
We've sat in your classrooms and walked the data with your teams.
Through Florida Tutoring Advantage (UF Lastinger Center), we were matched into Holmes County School District to deliver live, small-group Math & Reading, K-5. In January we spent a full day on site — observing live ELA and Math at Ponce de Leon Elementary and Bethlehem School, meeting principals and teachers.
🏫Ponce de Leon Elementary
Live K-5 Math & Reading, observed in session with curriculum coordinator Shannon White and the teaching team.
🏫Bethlehem School
Math and ELA running in tandem, observed live; FAST ELA cohort across Grades 3–5.
🤝An existing FTA provider
Approved and contracted through Florida Tutoring Advantage for SY 2025-26, delivering live K-5 tutoring in Holmes County — with a data-sharing agreement and on-site review complete.
We reference Florida Tutoring Advantage factually as our match into Holmes; this proposal is Purple Ruler's own offer to serve more Florida students.
2.5 to 3.2× Florida's typical growth — at every grade.
Across 29 students in Grades 3, 4 and 5, average FAST ELA scale-score growth from PM1 (Aug) to PM2 (Dec) beat Florida's state typical at every grade — after ~2.5 months of tutoring, measured on the state's own scores.
From the Purple Ruler Bethlehem Elementary Impact Report (April 2026); benchmarked against the FDOE 2025-26 FAST Median Growth table. Student names withheld.
Purple Ruler vs Florida typical.
Purple Ruler average (purple) against Florida's state typical growth (grey — the average of the five achievement-level medians).
Seven students grew 20+ points. Each has a story.
Individual FAST gains in a single PM1→PM2 window (names withheld). Three Grade 5 students grew 22+ points — more than 6× the state typical rate.
"Outstanding work today. We worked on theme vs topic and finding the theme statement for poems. You had great ideas, strong sentences and good theme statements."
Teacher note · Grade 4 · +30 FAST points
"All of our students are showing growth."
All of our students that are participating in Purple Ruler currently are showing growth in informational text. I have two students I always use as examples — they went from Level 1s to Level 3s, from below average to above average, after completing their first semester.
Shannon WhiteCurriculum & Assessment Coordinator, Ponce de Leon Elementary, Holmes County · recorded program review
From a recorded program-review conversation, shared with the school's knowledge. Full reference available on request.
More than double Florida's typical growth — at every grade.
The majority of my Purple Ruler students showed growth — at every grade.
April HatcherPrincipal, Bethlehem School, Holmes County · recorded programme review
And the FAST scores bear her out: average scale-score growth of +15.2 / +12.6 / +8.9 across Grades 3–5 against Florida's typical +6.0 / +4.0 / +3.6 — 2.5× to 3.2× the state median, with 78–83% of students growing at every grade (Bethlehem Impact Report, PM1→PM2 2025).
We measure on Florida's own scores.
We take each student's FAST scale-score growth from PM1 to PM2, benchmark it against the FDOE's published state median growth table, and cross-reference every attended lesson's attendance and teacher observations. No separate assessment layer is needed.
We report what the data does and doesn't show. In this small cohort, headcount attendance alone was only weakly correlated with score movement (Pearson −0.11) — engagement quality, captured in teacher notes, mattered more. We don't claim a dose-response we can't prove.
Florida's curriculum, taught again — small group, same teacher.
- ✓Math & Reading, K-5 on the district's pacing, aligned to Florida's B.E.S.T. standards, with the 3rd-grade reading stakes and FAST in view.
- ✓Small groups, same teacher — every child speaks and is checked every lesson.
- ✓Test–Teach–Test — a mini-quiz bookends each lesson; the in-lesson growth measure.
- ✓TESOL-certified teachers available for English learners — ENL/ESOL where needed.
The course in brief
It begins with a real test.
Before any tutoring starts, every student sits a short, standards-coded diagnostic. It tells us exactly where each child is against Florida's B.E.S.T. benchmarks — not a single number, but a profile.
- ✓Week one, every learner, about 25 minutes. No tutoring begins without it.
- ✓Coded item by item. Each question carries the Florida B.E.S.T. benchmark it tests, so the result reads as standards, not a single score.
- ✓Adaptive by design. Each response routes the next item to find gap depth, whether a learner is one grade level below or several.
- ✓Straight into grouping. The profile places the learner with peers who share the same gap, taught by one teacher.
Illustrative item. Every question is tagged to a Florida B.E.S.T. benchmark. The Reading and Science diagnostics run the same way.
One teacher. The right group. Re-tested, then regrouped.
This is how we deliver individualised instruction at scale. A learner is matched to a teacher who stays with them, grouped only with students who share the same gap — then re-tested and regrouped as gaps close.
👤A consistent teacher
The same qualified teacher all semester — we hold well above the 80% tutor-consistency benchmark. By the end of session one they know each learner by name, one strength and one growth area.
👥Small groups, never 1:1
Always taught in groups of up to four students to one teacher — small enough that every child speaks and is checked each lesson, never one-to-one.
🔄Regrouped at the natural break
Only a small share of pupils move, and only at the fall→spring break — the same point progress-monitoring rechecks eligibility, so it's a clean transition, not a mid-semester shuffle.
Every teacher is scored, lesson after lesson, against the six-metric rubric on the next pages. The same model serves students with disabilities and multilingual learners — the diagnostic flags accommodations, and teachers scaffold and pace for them.
Seven things districts ask of a tutoring platform. We do all seven.
The exact dimensions a rigorous district RFP evaluates — and we're glad to give a live platform demonstration.
📐Standards-aligned
Mapped to B.E.S.T. and district pacing.
🎯Individualized
Small groups by need; plans tailored from data.
📊Tracking
Attendance, behavior, mastery — live.
👥Rostering
Clean onboarding with district IDs.
📈Data & reports
Dashboards + mid/end reports + impact analysis.
🤖AI, responsibly
Safeguarding filter on every session.
🔒Security
FERPA-aligned; own servers; monitored platform.
Real time, any time.
Your team doesn't wait for a report. Live dashboards are open to each district and school whenever you want them, scoped to what your role is allowed to see.
- ✓Four live views: attendance, mastery by B.E.S.T. benchmark, session dosage, and engagement trends.
- ✓At-risk alerts fire automatically — below attendance target, missed-session thresholds, or not growing as expected.
- ✓Role-scoped: a district sees its schools and students; a school sees its own; a teacher sees their groups; a student sees their lessons.
- ✓The student's own view — they see upcoming lessons and click one to drop straight into the room, no links or codes.
Illustrative. The same data your team opens live.
Every lesson observed and scored — six metrics, max 18.
Category D — Academic Tutoring. North Star: did the child move toward grade level? A low score triggers coaching and re-observation, on top of 100% lesson review.
| 1 | Adaptability | Every minute used with precision; pacing reverse-planned from the assessment and the child's target. | 123 |
| 2 | Understanding | Misconceptions diagnosed in the moment; assessment-for-learning confirms mastery. | 123 |
| 3 | Presentation | Standards-accurate explanation, explicit modelling, clear success criteria. | 123 |
| 4 | Professionalism | Prepared, punctual, safe and consistent. | 123 |
| 5 | Engagement | The child practises more than they listen — active, not passive. | 123 |
| 6 | Content & curriculum | Reverse-planned from the grade-level target; aligned to B.E.S.T. and the district pacing guide. | 123 |
First meeting to first lesson: about a school week.
Standing up a cohort is our job, not your team's. You confirm enrollment and the timetable — we do the rest, and the first paid minute is a teaching minute.
🗂️Rostering that fits you
Clever, ClassLink or a simple CSV. We build the schedule, group the learners from the baseline diagnostic, create the materials and run student welcome webinars.
⚡Proven fast, proven big
We've taken districts from first meeting to first lesson inside two weeks, and run hundreds of lessons simultaneously in a single half-hour window. Scale is not the risk.
🎭A free dress rehearsal first
Every course opens with a free dress-rehearsal session — students log in, meet their teacher, test sound, screens and routine. Glitches die in the rehearsal, not in a lesson you paid for.
The same machinery runs summer programs — ESOL intensives, credit recovery and exam prep — in 4-week blocks with daily sessions.
A programme that reports clearly and corrects itself.
Live dashboards through the year, mid- and end-of-programme reports, and delivery that adjusts from its own data — plans re-tailored from ongoing testing and Tier 1 teacher feedback.
In the Bethlehem review, attendance was tracked rising from the mid-70s into the mid-90s — and we exchanged student-level data with the school to investigate every cohort, including the ones that grew least.
This is the report card a school actually receives.
Not a mock-up — the same format we delivered to Bethlehem School. Switch between a mid-program student card and the school-level end-of-program summary.
| B.E.S.T. benchmark | Status | |
|---|---|---|
| Key Ideas & Details · ELA.5.R.1 | → | Secure |
| Craft & Structure · ELA.5.R.2 | → | Secure |
| Integration of Knowledge · ELA.5.R.3 | → | Developing |
| Vocabulary in context · ELA.5.V.1 | → | Developing |
| Grade | Purple Ruler avg | Florida typical | vs state | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 · 6 students | +15.2 | +6.0 | → | 2.5× |
| Grade 4 · 5 students | +12.6 | +4.0 | → | 3.2× |
| Grade 5 · 18 students | +8.9 | +3.6 | → | 2.5× |
From the Purple Ruler Bethlehem Elementary Impact Report (April 2026), benchmarked to the FDOE 2025-26 FAST Median Growth table. Student names withheld; benchmark statuses illustrative of the per-student profile.
Built to a standard a Florida district can trust.
Student data is handled to FERPA from day one. We run on our own servers, sign a district data-sharing agreement drafted in the district's favor, and act strictly as a school official with a legitimate educational interest — we never sell, share or repurpose student data. We already hold a live DSA in Holmes County.
FERPA-aligned
School-official model; no onward use of student data.
Our own servers
Data we control, not a third-party reseller.
DSA in place
District-favorable agreement, live in Holmes County.
Independently certified
Cyber Essentials information-security certification.
Thoroughly vetted — including Florida Level 2 screening.
Every Purple Ruler teacher is a directly-employed member of staff, recruited under our Safer Recruitment policy and vetted before they ever meet a student. Every session runs on a monitored, recorded platform, and our staff operate as mandatory reporters. Where Florida Level 2 screening applies, it is completed through the Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse, coordinated with the district, before any student contact — and where a district requires a Level-2-cleared adult in the room, one is present in every live session as standard.
🛡️What we always do — every teacher, before any student
- ✓Criminal background check on every teacher before they meet a student — and we coordinate Florida Level 2 screening with each district (below).
- ✓Identity, eligibility-to-work, qualifications and references verified under our Safer Recruitment policy.
- ✓A named Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) with deputies, annual child-protection training, and clear mandatory-reporting escalation to the district and authorities.
- ✓Monitored platform — verified individual logins, live in-lesson moderation with an automated safeguarding filter, and a full recorded session record.
- ✓FERPA-aligned handling of all student data, with a district data-sharing agreement and full policies available on request.
🗝️Our Florida Level 2 process
We meet the credentialing FTA and Florida districts require — fingerprints, badging and the Jessica Lunsford Act — and provide documentation on request:
- ✓Level 2 fingerprint-based screening through the Care Provider Background Screening Clearinghouse, coordinated with the district and completed before a teacher works with any student.
- ✓A Level-2-cleared adult in the room — where a district requires an on-site cleared adult, one is present in every live session alongside the qualified teacher, as standard.
- ✓Documentation on file — clearance records, badging and our safeguarding policies supplied to the district and to FTA on request.
For Florida's multilingual learners — measured gains in four weeks.
Florida has one of the nation's largest English-learner populations. Our TESOL-certified teachers run the same diagnose → group → re-test → regroup model on a WIDA-coded diagnostic. Last summer the Iberia Parish (LA) district handed us twelve students from migrant and multilingual families for an intensive four-week ESOL programme. This is what came back.
- ✓WIDA-coded diagnostic, regrouped as proficiency moves — the same individualised, gap-targeted flow you've seen, tuned for language acquisition.
- ✓Built for interrupted schooling — these were migrant ESOL learners with significant gaps; the programme started further behind and closed it, growing vocabulary, reading fluency and willingness to speak academic English.
- ✓Defensible to auditors and funders — runs at the cadence a summer window allows, mapped to the Louisiana Migrant Education Programme; the same applies to Florida's Title III and migrant-served districts.
Source: Iberia Parish Summer 2025 ESOL Impact Report (12 students, four weeks, 115 graded sessions). Student names withheld. Available in full on request.
A handbook for every role — principal, teacher, coordinator.
Everything your staff need to run the program — setup, the classroom environment, dashboards, lesson structure, data and quality monitoring — lives in one guide. Flip through it right here.
A real teacher, live, in every single session.
At this price, most "tutoring" is self-paced software. Ours never is: 100% live teaching, the same qualified teacher every session, mapped to Florida's B.E.S.T. standards and your district pacing — and reported back with live data.
And we're already delivering live, state-wide, across the country — so the model, staffing and reporting are proven before they reach a new Florida district:
Simple per-session pricing that fits FTA funding.
We bill by the small group, not per child per hour, so high-dosage tutoring stays affordable at district scale — and the rate is set within the Florida Tutoring Advantage contract and rate structure.
- ✓Fits the funding you already hold. Supplemental high-dosage tutoring maps cleanly onto Title I, Title III (English learners) and remaining ESSER / FTA budget — including summer cover for districts with unspent FTA dollars.
- ✓A no-cost pilot is available. Where a district wants to see the model first, a short pilot cohort can run so your team reviews live lessons and FAST-aligned data before scaling.
- ✓Scale what works. Move into full school-year or summer cohorts with funding mapped — exactly how we grew in Holmes County.
Billed by the group at $45 per teaching hour; per-student figures shown for full groups of four. Final pricing and funding fit are confirmed within the FTA contract and with the district.
Price your program right now, on this slide.
Billed by the group at $45 per teaching hour ($22.50 per 30-minute lesson), never per registered child — an absent student never bills twice. Per-student figures shown for full groups of four; if your numbers don't divide evenly we round up, and the last few students still get a full group. Final pricing and funding fit are confirmed per district scope.
What happens once a district is matched.
📅Week 0
30-minute planning call. Pick schools, subjects and cohorts from your FAST data; we draft the schedule and the roster plan.
🧪Week 1
Pilot week — real groups, real lessons, your staff watching — opened by the free dress-rehearsal session. Rostering via Clever / ClassLink / CSV in parallel.
🚀Week 2
Full launch: baseline diagnostics sat, groups formed by gap, dashboards live with baseline data, welcome webinars done.
📈Every week after
Weekly reports, progress checks each cycle, regrouping on live data at the natural break, mid- and end-of-programme reports to your board.
Summer programs — ESOL intensives, credit recovery and exam prep — run on the same machinery in 4-week blocks with daily sessions, including cover for districts with unspent FTA budget.
Who we'd build this with.
In Florida · Holmes County
Shannon White — Curriculum Coordinator, Ponce de Leon Elementary (live program reference)
April Hatcher — Principal, Bethlehem School (FAST-measured impact reference)
Florida Tutoring Advantage — UF Lastinger Center program that matched us into Holmes County
Purple Ruler
Daniel Demarmels — Chief Executive Officer · daniel.demarmels@purpleruler.com
US operating base — Dover, Delaware
Directly-employed, trained teachers — held to the six-metric rubric with 100% lesson review
Holmes County stands as a live Florida reference for both FAST-measured academic growth and the importance of consistent teachers working with small, well-matched groups.
Ready to serve more Florida districts through FTA.
We're an existing Florida Tutoring Advantage provider, delivering K-5 tutoring in Holmes County and measured on Florida's own FAST scores, with the capacity, security and reporting a statewide program requires. We welcome being matched with additional districts, and can provide a live platform demonstration, references and full documentation on request.
Purple Ruler · learn@purpleruler.com · 8 The Green, Dover, DE. FAST data from the Bethlehem Elementary Impact Report (Apr 2026), benchmarked to the FDOE 2025-26 FAST Median Growth table; student names withheld. Purple Ruler is an existing Florida Tutoring Advantage provider, currently delivering K-5 tutoring in Holmes County.