About Third Space Learning
Our journey to provide schools with a personal math tutor for every student who needs it
Helping schools access one-on-one tutoring more easily
One-on-one support has the power to change lives, but all too often it’s only accessible for the children whose families can afford it, and it’s often too expensive or inflexible for schools to provide directly.
In 2013, we set out to help schools close the math attainment gap through affordable, easy-to-implement online one-on-one tutoring. Since then, we’re proud to have taught 170,000 online tutoring sessions to 170,000 pupils in 4,000 schools across the UK and US.
Today, we’re taking that experience further with Skye, our teacher-built AI math tutor that makes truly unlimited one‑on‑one support affordable for every school.
Built by teachers with over a decade of tutoring experience
Every prompt, scaffold and hint that Skye gives is grounded in:
Insights and learnings from 2 million traditional math tutoring sessions in schools
A curriculum of scaffolded teacher‑designed slides that follow the “I do, We do, You do” structure
Proven tutor moves – modelling, questioning, wait time and verbal reasoning – baked into Skye’s system prompt
Because Skye is trained on real classroom challenges, schools tell us “it feels just like working with a specialist tutor – only faster to schedule and far more affordable”.
Removing the barriers of traditional one-on-one support
Unlimited reach: one fixed low cost whole-school license covers every student who needs it.
No per-session fees: schools no longer need to balance who needs support with what they can afford
Flexible scheduling: sessions can be scheduled to start every 5 minutes or can be launched on-demand
Engaging AI tutoring: not just a generic chatbot; students and Skye talk through problems out loud
Teacher‑built & curriculum‑aligned: the same lessons and pedagogical approach we’ve used since 2013
Our story so far…
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Meet the team
Our academic team
Candida Crawford
Chief Learning Officer
A former teacher with over a decade of experience and a master’s degree in Educational Psychology, Candida oversees the curriculum, student experience and our tutor training program.
Kathleen Epperson
Math Curriculum Specialist
Kathleen has 9 years of experience teaching elementary and middle school math. She is passionate about creating tutoring and teaching materials that help teachers and students think deeply about math.
Katie Keeton
Math Curriculum Specialist
Katie is a former elementary school teacher who now helps to develop the Third Space Learning tutoring curriculum, as well as writing education blogs and creating free resources to support teachers.
Christi Kulesza
Math Curriculum Specialist
Christi has 10 years of elementary education experience and is passionate about helping children fall in love with math. She creates math content for our tutoring sessions, blog and free resources.
Jen Martins
Math Curriculum Specialist
With 15 years of middle and high school math teaching experience and 10 years’ as a supervisor of math, Jen creates content for our tutoring students and for our community of teachers.
Jackie Wassell
Math Curriculum Specialist
Jackie helps to develop our curriculum of tutoring lessons, writes blogs and develops free math resources. She is a former 4th & 5th grade teacher and math coach with a Master’s degree in Teaching & Curriculum.
More friendly faces…
Tom Hooper
CEO and Founder
Tom founded Third Space Learning in 2013 and continues to drive the company’s social mission to close the attainment gap.
Alice Morris
Chief Product Officer
Alice ensures we’re developing a product that is valuable and effective as possible for the students and teachers that use it.
Bryan Tookey
Chief Operations Officer
Bryan ensures the team have everything they need to support our schools and students each day.
Rob Langman
Chief Commercial Officer
Rob works closely with our academic and school-facing teams to ensure we’re delivering the best, most effective program possible.
Gianni Mazza
Technical Architect
Gianni is the architect of the full service Third Space Learning platform and A.I. Tutor, Skye.
Sophie Bessemer
Head of Content
With 20 years’ education publishing experience, Sophie makes sure we’re creating content teachers need and love.
Lottie Bates
Head of Marketing
Lottie helps to make sure that as many schools as possible know about the support we’re able to provide.
James Gregson
Head of New Schools
Looking to sign up to Third Space Learning? James is on hand to discuss your school’s needs and how we can help.
Jenni Hoy
Head of Customer Support
Jenni is responsible for giving our brilliant customers the best possible experience we can.