Two layers. Treehouse 1.0 is plain, proven tutoring craft — the thing you're paying for on a Tuesday night. Treehouse 2.0 (the TLC layer) is the mentoring work around it: attention, emotions, and how to use AI without letting it think for you. Both are published here in full.
the company name tells you what we do. the method is the thing worth naming.
Nothing exotic here — just the techniques that decades of tutoring and learning research agree on, applied every session. The student does the work; we make sure it's the right work.
Where is the student struggling right now, and what are the goals — tonight's assignment, Friday's quiz, the semester grade?
The student works; we sit alongside as a role model for basic problem-solving, asking the questions they'll eventually ask themselves:
“What variable am I trying to isolate?” · “What are all the options I can try?” · “What do I already know?” · “Can my experience with a familiar problem apply here?”
Any last questions, then a look at what's coming next in the course. We usually leave the student with a short set of notes — an algorithm for the chapter of math they're currently in, in their own words as much as ours.
Most tutoring companies treat their curriculum as a trade secret. We think that's backwards: if a method works, publishing it makes kids better off and keeps us honest. This is the layer beyond standard tutoring — attention treated as trainable, foundational skills named, and every technique published as it's written.
Everything we use, you can read. Our process, methods, and teaching materials are open-sourced as they're written — browsable by parents, usable by other teachers, and improvable by anyone.
Before a student can learn calculus, they need three quieter skills: regulating emotions (frustration is where most math careers end), communicating clearly (asking a precise question is half of understanding), and a workable sense of identity — the difference between “I failed the quiz” and “I am bad at math.”
Every tutoring relationship spends some time here, whatever the subject on the whiteboard.
A growing, open-sourced collection of techniques that work with a distractible brain instead of against it: body doubling, externalized working memory, interest-anchoring, timed sprints with real rest.
Written from lived experience, not a pamphlet. Free for any family or teacher to use, whether or not they ever book with us.
Research puts the average sustained attention on one task at about 47 seconds and falling. We treat focus like strength training: progressive overload, deliberate rest, measured over weeks. The “how to sit still” module is this philosophy in miniature.
64% of teens already use chatbots; a fifth use them when they're upset. Banning the tool teaches nothing. We teach students to use AI to check their thinking, never to skip it — and how to notice the difference in themselves.
Already live: the Treehouse watchlist & free resources — hand-picked videos from the researchers and builders we source from. Next up: