Paper

Paper is an educational technology company headquartered in Montreal, Quebec, that sells virtual tutoring and related academic support services to K-12 schools and districts. Its current flagship offering, GROW, is a high-impact tutoring program in which cohorts of students with similar academic needs meet in tutoring pods, typically three times per week for 30-minute sessions, usually during the school day. Sessions are delivered live and virtually through Paper's platform with the same tutor each time, using curriculum built to reinforce classroom instruction rather than a parallel curriculum. Students require only a Chromebook or laptop and headphones; classroom teachers remain present, receive tutor feedback, and can view progress data.

Alongside GROW, Paper has historically provided chat-based on-demand tutoring and a Review Center feature, through which students submit written work for annotated feedback from a writing-specific tutor. Program cycles conclude with a custom end-of-program review analyzing implementation, participation and academic growth against benchmarks agreed with the district at design time. Implementation includes district-specific program design, a teacher onboarding session about a week before launch, and an optional in-person launch-day presence, with go-live possible in as little as two weeks from kickoff.

The company was originally named GradeSlam and has expanded through acquisitions of Figure Math (2022) and, in 2023, MajorClarity, a career and college readiness platform, and Readlee, an AI-based reading software provider.