We help high schools across the country launch their own peer tutoring programs — for free.
Our Story
The Peer Tutoring Program was founded by Alexandra Syanova after seeing the impact that student-led academic support could have within a school community. While attending Prairie Ridge High School, Alexandra created and organized a structured peer tutoring system that allowed students to receive academic help from trained peer tutors during the school day.
What began as a small effort to connect students who needed help with students who were eager to teach quickly grew into a widely used resource at Prairie Ridge High School. The program helped students build confidence in challenging subjects while giving tutors the opportunity to develop leadership, communication, and mentorship skills.
After seeing the positive results at Prairie Ridge, Alexandra was inspired to expand the idea beyond a single school. The Peer Tutoring Program was created to help other schools build similar student-led chapters through a clear launch process, ready-to-use resources, and digital tools that make the program easier to manage.
Today, the program is designed to support schools through every stage of the chapter launch process, from onboarding and tutor recruitment to session tracking, hour approval, and monthly impact reporting.
Meet Peter
Peter is the friendly face of the Peer Tutoring Program. His name comes from the initials PTP, which also form the glasses in the logo. The design is simple and playful, representing curiosity, learning, and the idea that education should feel approachable for everyone.
Peter was created by Alexandra Syanova and her dad while they were brainstorming ideas for the program’s identity. They wanted a logo that would reflect students helping students while still feeling fun, recognizable, and welcoming. After sketching different ideas, the smiling character with PTP glasses was born.
The glasses symbolize perspective and understanding, two qualities that are essential in tutoring. The smile represents the supportive environment that the Peer Tutoring Program strives to create for every student.
Today, Peter represents the mission of the program: learning together, helping others succeed, and making academic support feel more approachable.
Our Mission
The mission of The Peer Tutoring Program is to make academic support more accessible by helping schools create structured, student-led peer tutoring chapters.
Through peer tutoring, students are able to ask questions in a more comfortable environment, strengthen their understanding of course material, and build academic confidence. At the same time, tutors develop leadership, communication, responsibility, and mentorship skills by supporting their peers.
The program is built around the belief that students can play a powerful role in strengthening their own school communities.
Impact at Prairie Ridge High School
The original Peer Tutoring Program at Prairie Ridge High School became a valuable resource for students seeking academic help. The program connected students with trained peer tutors across multiple subjects and created a welcoming space where students could ask questions, review difficult concepts, and work through challenging material.
The success of the program demonstrated how powerful peer collaboration can be in supporting student learning. Students receiving tutoring benefited from working with peers who understood the challenges they were facing, while tutors gained experience explaining complex ideas and mentoring others.
This impact became the foundation for the broader Peer Tutoring Program chapter model.
The Chapter Model
The Peer Tutoring Program now helps schools launch their own chapters using a structured model. Each chapter is designed to be led by students with support from a faculty sponsor or school staff member.
Through guided onboarding, schools can learn how to recruit tutors, organize leadership roles, set expectations, track sessions, approve hours, and measure chapter impact. The Peer Tutoring Chapter Hub supports this process by giving chapters a digital space to manage tutoring activity and stay organized.
This model makes it easier for schools to start peer tutoring without having to build a system from scratch.
Looking Ahead
The long-term goal of The Peer Tutoring Program is to expand this model to schools across the country. By combining student leadership, guided onboarding, chapter resources, and the Chapter Hub, the program aims to help more schools create sustainable peer tutoring systems.
With the support of dedicated student leaders, faculty sponsors, educators, and school communities, The Peer Tutoring Program hopes to continue growing and making free academic support more accessible for students everywhere.
