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…

2013

Third Space Learning launches; our community of math tutors begins supporting UK primary schools online.

2016

500,000th lesson delivered; early evidence shows students make 7 months’ progress in 14 weeks.

2020

Third Space Learning reaches more students than ever before as learning gaps widen after school closures.

2021

Secondary tutoring programs launched and our one millionth one-on-one session is taught in Tendring Primary School in Essex.

2023

Support extended to US schools, and research and development on voice‑based AI tutoring begins, using insights from millions of past sessions.

2024

Students in the first test schools work with Skye, the AI math tutor who teaches through spoken, two-way conversation.

2025

More teachers and students provide essential feedback on Skye as part our our pilot program before the AI tutoring is launched to all schools in the UK and US.

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.

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