We also want to thank all the parents who have recently registered. Your feedback is great, and we look forward to the summer tutoring season. Stay tuned for more exciting news over the next few months.

We’re excited to connect the best U.S. classroom teachers — over 100 standing by — with students from around the nation for online tutoring in Math, English, Science, Social Studies, Foreign Languages and more. Tutoring is an $8 billion industry in the U.S. and growing, and we think we can help make it better by building a product and business based on tutoring best practices developed by leading education experts. Check out our launch press release.

To encourage parents new to online tutoring to try WeTutor, we’re offering $100 of free tutoring to the first 250 parents to sign up during the month of April.

Go to WeTutor in the News to watch the interview.

For those who don’t know ePals, more than half a million educators and millions of learners across 200 countries and territories safely connect, collaborate and build community using ePals tools. ePals provides school-safe email and blogs, collaborative learning projects, and programs such as the In2Books eMentoring reading program. ePals is a leader in using online technologies to grow local and global learning communities, and we’re thrilled to have them as a partner.

We also want to announce that teachers who are registered attendees of the NAIS conference can participate in a special prize drawing. There are two ways to win:

1. Three $200 AmEx gift cards will be awarded on the last day of the conference. To be eligible for this drawing, you simply need to register with WeTutor and create a tutor profile for free before the close of the conference (scheduled to close at 2:30 p.m. on February 27).

2. One $500 AmEx gift card will be awarded on March 23. To be eligible for this drawing, you need to register with WeTutor and complete a tutoring sale by midnight on March 22.

We look forward to seeing you in Chicago.

If you are a teacher and tutor in your spare time, we invite you to try a few sessions on WeTutor for free. By tutoring online, you can avoid the disadvantages of in-person tutoring – the time, expense and environmental impact of driving to sessions. All you need is a computer, a telephone or computer headset, and a broadband (e.g., cable or DSL) Internet connection – no downloads or special hardware are required.

When you use WeTutor, you’re in control – work when and where you want and set your own fees. Using our “Virtual Classroom” is like tutoring in-person. And parents pay you securely online with any credit card.

Join the pilot now to:

• Help shape the future of online tutoring by giving feedback to the NAIS and WeTutor.

• Get a head start on the thousands of teachers who will use WeTutor when it fully launches by boosting your placement in WeTutor’s directory of tutors.

Teachers, click here to register now for the WeTutor pilot program. You are welcome to use WeTutor as much or as little as you like, all for free!

If you are a parent, and if your child needs private tutoring or online homework help, you can use WeTutor to find the best private tutors and get live, one-on-one tutoring for your child in a safe and secure online setting. WeTutor is based upon extensive research and designed to incorporate the tutoring best practices developed by education experts and our partner, the NAIS. WeTutor provides you with all the information necessary to make the best choices for your children and their tutoring needs, and we guarantee your satisfaction.

Parents, click here for your free registration with WeTutor.