That's where grades slip and a confident kid suddenly decides "I'm not a physics person." Our 6-week Summer Jumpstart builds the foundation — and the problem-solving process — so your teen walks into class already ahead.
6 weeks · two 1-hour sessions a week · ~5 students per instructor · taught by our coaching team.
For a lot of kids, the May exam isn't the hard part — some say it felt easy. It's the class, especially the first month or two, that's brutal. Three reasons why:
Most students have never seen physics, and they're dropped straight into a college-level course. Deep end, day one.
Unit 1 feeds Unit 2, which feeds Unit 3. If the foundation — kinematics, forces, vectors — is shaky, everything after gets harder while new material keeps coming.
Most students get the concepts. They freeze when a problem looks a little different from the example. That's the real skill the class tests — and almost nobody teaches it directly.
Waiting until October means emergency tutoring when there's less time and it costs more. Piling on homework often means practicing the same setup mistake five times. Re-explaining concepts doesn't help when concepts were never the issue. None of them close the real gap: no one has taught a reliable process for breaking down a problem.
Not "here's how to do this one problem" — the step-by-step way to break down any problem, whether it's easy, hard, or one we've never seen on this year's exam. Once a student owns the process, a hard problem isn't scary; it's the same steps with a trickier setup.
Your teen works problems on their own whiteboard while an instructor watches the work as it happens — and catches a wrong turn the moment it happens, before it becomes a habit. About 5 students per instructor, so nobody gets lost.
Two one-hour sessions a week — about 2–3 hours total, no required homework.
A webinar-style class on the week's concepts and how to break down its problems. Your teen sees the instructor — not a room of other kids — and asks questions anonymously in the chat, answered live.
Where the real learning happens. Own whiteboard, instructor watching live, with feedback on the approach and problem-solving steps — not just right or wrong answers.
We don't cram the whole course. We go deep on Unit 1 (kinematics) and the start of Unit 2 (forces) — about the first two months of school, ~20% of the course. Own that, and the year feels different.
Multiple session times every week — come to any, or extra ones for more practice. Lectures are recorded and whiteboards save progress, so trips, camps, and tournaments don't set anyone back.
Work happens live, not skippable homework. Every problem is marked "correct" or "try again," progress is tracked, and a dedicated success coach checks in if a student goes quiet.
No textbooks. The only thing we recommend is a way to write on a screen — an iPad with a pen, a touchscreen laptop, or a ~$30–40 writing tablet. We'll send suggestions.
In the last cohort with full exam data, about 80% of students scored a 4 or 5 — half of them 5s. Our students typically post the highest first-test scores in their class and hold solid A's.
Came in nervous with no physics background. After we built up her problem-solving, she scored 91% on her Unit 3 exam when the class average was 60%. That confidence carried her all year.
Came in having forgotten everything from middle-school physics. The head start meant she was scoring well even before her teacher curved the test — and walked into the AP exam actually knowing her stuff.
A little focused work each week beats last-minute cramming. Start in summer and you lock in advantages no one who joins later can get.
$375 for the full 6 weeks — about $63 a week.
Continue into the school year at $400/mo — fall joiners pay $450.
Only summer students can prepay the school year for 25% off.
Walk into class ahead on Unit 1 — and stay ahead all year.
Pick the timeline that fits your summer — same price, same curriculum, same outcome.
June 21 – August 1 · all times Pacific (Eastern in parentheses) · come to any that fit
The students from the video, in their own words.
Two one-hour sessions. The teaching lesson is a webinar-style class explaining the concepts and how to break down problems — your teen sees the instructor (not other kids) and types questions into the chat, answered live and anonymously. The practice session is where most of the learning happens: your teen works on their own whiteboard while an instructor watches live and steps in the moment something goes sideways.
The teaching lecture can have anywhere from 15–60 students, but since it's webinar-style it never feels crowded — it's just your teen and the instructor, with anonymous Q&A. Practice sessions have multiple instructors and we aim for about a 5-to-1 student-to-instructor ratio, with breakout rooms for one-on-one help when a problem needs a longer conversation.
No — this is the question we get most. There are multiple session times every week, lectures are recorded, and whiteboards save progress. Miss a week and your teen can watch the recorded lecture and make up the practice by coming to a couple of extra sessions when they're back. Nobody falls behind for taking a trip.
Not the whole course — and that's deliberate. The full curriculum is about 80 hours, and cramming it would overwhelm your teen. Instead we go deep on the foundation: all of Unit 1 (kinematics) and the start of Unit 2 (forces) — roughly the first two months of school, about 20% of the course. Own that and the school year is a completely different experience.
Two things. First, we teach an explicit, step-by-step process for breaking down any problem — not just how to do one specific question. Second, the practice is live with real-time feedback, so a mistake gets caught on the first problem instead of repeated across five homework problems before anyone notices.
The work happens live in the sessions, not as homework they can quietly skip. Every problem is marked "correct" or "try again" by an instructor, and we track progress. If a student goes quiet or stops showing up, a dedicated success coach reaches out to check in with both the student and the parent.
For most students, yes — and that matters in this class specifically. AP Physics 1 is sequential: each unit builds on the one before. Starting the year already solid on Unit 1 means every later unit gets easier instead of the whole thing snowballing.
Honestly, no — the only way to guarantee it would be to take the test for them. What we can tell you: in our last cohort with full data, about 80% of students scored a 4 or 5, half of them 5s. The students who get 5s are the ones who show up and do the practice; we give them everything they need to succeed.
No textbooks, nothing expensive. The only thing we recommend is a way to write on a screen — an iPad with a pen, a touchscreen laptop, or an inexpensive writing tablet (around $30–40). We'll send exact suggestions before classes begin.
Yes — that's a real option, not a workaround. The August fast-track covers the same curriculum in about 3 weeks: your teen watches the recorded teaching lessons on their own schedule and attends live practice sessions (which run multiple times every week). We build a personal plan within a day or two of enrolling. Some families prefer August because the summer is busy until then — it's a completely valid choice. See how the August fast-track works →
Summer is $375 for the full six weeks. If your teen loves it and wants to continue into the school year, we keep going the same way and add drop-in office hours for schoolwork, labs, and tests. The school-year portion is about $400/mo month-to-month (no year commitment), or 25% less if you pay the year up front (no refunds on the prepaid year). You decide after you've seen the summer in action.
Six weeks starting June 21, or a focused 3-week fast-track in August — both paths lead to walking into AP Physics 1 already ahead, at the lowest rate of the year.
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