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2026

14 Award Nominations and Counting: From a Top Tutoring Center nod in its earliest years to fourteen total award nominations since, BTA's growth has been measured the same way from day one: by the trust of the families who show…

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2026

BTA Joins the CHOOSE Act Conversation: As Alabama families gained new education funding options through the CHOOSE Act, BTA stepped in to help parents understand what it means for their child - never as a funding source itself, but as…

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2026

L.J. Featured on Bama Knows Education: LJ joined the Bama Knows Education podcast to talk about BTA's mission and approach to academic support - another chapter in a story that started with a bucket and a borrowed daycare.

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2025

School Day Success Lab Launches: BTA introduced the School Day Success Lab, a daytime academic reinforcement and mentorship program for K-6 students built around the same principle as everything else BTA does: catch the gap before it becomes a pattern.

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2019

Jireh's Story: Jireh Goldsmith has tutored at BTA since day one. A magnet school graduate who carried a 4.25 GPA through her own education, she turned down easier paths to build something that mattered more: a place where students stop…

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2023

Testing software was upgraded to deliver real-time progress data, sharper accountability metrics, and at-home resources that extend learning beyond session time. The Mayor of Montgomery issued an official proclamation recognizing BTA's work reshaping education for hundreds of local students. To…

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2022

BTA began corporate partnerships with local childcare agencies, extending after-school tutoring and computer literacy training to their employees.

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2021

BTA opened its first brick-and-mortar location. New systems went in to track student records and pinpoint learning gaps with real diagnostic data, not guesswork. LJ brought his own former high school English teacher on board as Training and Development Manager…

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2020

When the pandemic hit, BTA moved fully virtual within days - proof that the mission didn't depend on a building.

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2019

LJ's Story: Starting in the 3rd grade at MacMillan International Baccalaureate Academy, LJ - now CEO and Founder of Better Than Average (BTA) - was already helping classmates after school. Twelve years in magnet schools taught him something most founders…

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