Episode 338 | Hannah Pinter | Impact Tutoring | The EdisonOS Podcast

In this episode, Hannah Pinter, founder of Impact Tutoring, shares how her belief in the zone of proximal development, the gap between what a student can do alone versus what they can do with the right guidance, shapes every session she runs, and why one on one tutoring creates the ideal environment for students to build not just academic skills but genuine confidence and intrinsic motivation. Drawing from her work with middle and high schoolers in the Seattle area, Hannah explains why she encourages virtual tutoring for SAT prep specifically, since the test is now digital and working online keeps students in the same interface they will see on test day. She discusses how many students arrive without the basic grammar foundation the SAT actually requires, why understanding sentence structure helps with both reading fluency and grammar questions, and shares her view that while AI can be useful for generating targeted practice problems and summarizing session notes, the accountability, back and forth conversation, and relational aspect of tutoring are things technology cannot replicate.