We learn your child's world
A conversation, over video. The country your family came from. The languages at home. The thing your child is wrestling with that no one at school has noticed.
A teacher who
has lived in
both your worlds.
For international and immigrant children, ages five to nine. One teacher. Every week. The same person, for as long as it takes.
Apply for the 2026–2027 yearBetween two worlds.
Maybe your daughter was born here and you weren't. Maybe you arrived together, two years ago, or last summer. Maybe she speaks one language at the kitchen table and another at school, and the gap between them is starting to show.
She is bright. You already know that. What she needs is someone across the table who can hold both of her worlds at once — and who has stood in a classroom in both.
A lifetime at the front of a classroom.
Our teachers carry centuries of experience between them. Twenty-five to forty years each, in two countries — often three. Seoul and then Toronto. Lagos and then London. Tehran and then Vancouver.
They are not new to this. They have already done the work of a career, and they have chosen to spend the years they have now with one child, for one careful hour each week.
That decision is the entire premise of the company.
Placed by hand.
Three steps. The company is built around the third one.
We make one match
We introduce you to one teacher — someone who knows both of your child's worlds, and whom we believe is the right person for this child, in this season.
The same teacher. Every week.
Sessions begin. The relationship grows. Next year, you are still working with the same person. That continuity is the point.
Some things can't be rushed.
A child becoming themselves can't be rushed. A teacher coming to know a child can't be rushed. The slow trust between a family and a stranger who will sit with their child every Tuesday for the next two years can't be rushed.
We started The Vellum Class because too many families were being asked to rush. Apps that pair you with a different person every session. Marketplaces that ask you to filter and sort. We don't do that.
We find teachers who have lived and taught where your family came from. We make one match. The same teacher, every week. For as long as it takes.
If that is what you want for your child, we are here.
— The founders, The Vellum ClassOur classroom is full for this year.
We are taking applications for the 2026–2027 school year. The application is short, but it is real — a founder reads every one.
hello@vellumclass.com