Program Profile
Mentoring
Better understand our signature program.
The Brief
In short, mentoring with Acuity empowers you with confidence.
Mentoring helps students with their planning, organisation, mindset, and accountability.
In contrast to the specific focus of tutoring, mentoring considers the full picture.
If you’d like to see what you’re truly capable of, mentoring is for you.
“I’m now more driven to do well in my academics and rather than looking at results, I’ve started to focus and take interest in the process and journey”
“Over the past year of working with Acuity, not only has studying become more enjoyable, but it has also become a place where I can come to deepen my knowledge”
“Taken the time to get to know me and understand how I study best“
“Far beyond any tutor I’ve had before”
Initiative Spolight
Paying it Forward
Acuity is a project dedicated to unlocking educational opportunities for students across Australia.
Of course, our mentoring and tutoring programs target this outcome.
But for us, we don’t want to restrict out impact to only those who can afford high-quality support.
Although our entire mentoring program is incredibly unique, one component stands out in particular.
Our students are empowered to hold themselves accountable, plus make a massive impact along the way.
Through small daily wins—extending a habit streak or hitting another mini-deadline—students are rewarded by raising more money towards their chosen cause.
Each little win for our students means a lot for someone else. It means a lot for us too.
In trusting our mentorship, you’re directly helping to pay that impact forward. Your session costs are diverted towards a much greater cause, meaning you help not only yourself by working with us, but other students much more in need as well.
1.2 million Australian children and young people are living in poverty today. In 2025, with only a small, but dedicated group of mentoring students, we raised $464 for The Smith Family.
This sum was small, but the impact was tangible. Every dollar went towards funding an education for Andreis, a Year 5 student in Victoria.
These funds meant that Andreis was equipped with essential school supplies like uniforms, books, and stationary. Plus it allowed him to access additional learning support and ongoing mentoring through the Learning for Life program.
Locally, this made a massive difference for a real student doing it tough. It also fosters an important perspective for our mentoring students.
For our students, when their positive action raises another dollar, it brings with it fulfilment, gratitude, and a moment to reflect on our relative privilege.
Wealth inequality is the limiting factor holding so many back from a strong education. As is well-documented, education is among the most impactful gateways for improving so many quality-of-life outcomes among those who are impoverished. At Acuity, we feel it is our responsibility to help close this gap.
In 2026 and beyond, we’re driven to do more.
We have been unconditionally committed to empowering Australian high school students with confidence, but now we’re bringing this commitment abroad.
All students in our mentoring program will have the opportunity to choose exactly who they support, through direct loans to students in developing nations.
Their hard work throughout the term in staying accountable to the goals they set themselves will fund a donation from us each month that can reach students across the world.
All this is possible through Kiva, a globally-recognised not-for-profit that has impacted over 5 million underserved people worldwide.
Unashamedly, It truly is awesome. We can’t wait for you to be involved.
Practically, this system works, too.
It is an effective evidence-based approach that stacks small gains to build desired habits, consistency, and meaningful change.
It works by breaking down the anxiety-inducing large or distant goals—say, finishing your history essay—into smaller, easily management chunks, but goals that are specific; like, write one sentence in your introduction by 5pm tomorrow.
Rather than practicing inconsistency (alternating between cramming and procrastinating), our mentoring program systemises consistent effort that doesn’t feel overwhelming or difficult.
Our collective fundraising project provides the meaningful incentive and instant positive feedback, while our approach to breaking down barriers to work makes beating procrastination simple.
When study revolves around doing less, more often, and is instantly rewarding—both externally and internally—stress dissolves and you can actually start to enjoy the process. That’s our goal.
Our Mentoring Team
Recent Graduates
Having recently graduated, our team comes equipped with the most current subject knowledge and syllabus understanding.
Quality People
Amazing people are more important to us than amazing credentials. But, luckily for us, our tutors have both these qualities!
Attention to Detail
Our mentoring team understand the nuance behind every assessment piece and learn exactly how you work best.
Carefully Matched
We carefully pair each student with a tutor that we feel can make a specific impact, or someone on our team you might have specially requested!
Service Comparison
At Acuity, we offer two primary services: Tutoring and Mentoring.
Mentoring helps students with planning, organisation, mindset, and accountability.
Tutoring focuses on specific subject support.
Use the information below to see whether mentoring could suit you.
Who is Mentoring For?
Like with our tutoring program, mentoring is not for everyone.
Mentoring with Acuity best suits older students who are striving for success in any field. Whatever their goals and priorities are, our mentoring program moulds to fit their needs and approaches academics from a broad, holistic focus.
Mentoring is for those students who believe that success is driven by more than just hours spent in the books or behind a computer. They believe that real success is sustainable, fuelled by confidence, and doesn’t need to carry the overwhelm, stress, and anxiety felt by many students. Our mentoring system also supports students looking for personal development as well, as we take a student-first, not a subject-first approach.
Our mentors spend significant time outside of each session working behind the scenes and this program requires the same buy-in beyond each lesson from the student as well.
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Testimonials
“Tutoring really supported our son during Term Four in Year 11 and during Year 12″
“It gave him extra structure to organise his study as well as ask questions and challenge himself”
“Lachy was easy to communicate with and billing was always smooth“