Working with students and families across Denver, Montbello, Green Valley Ranch, and Aurora, Colorado.

Personalized Tutoring in Denver, Colorado

Bridging Your Gap Tutoring, LLC delivers personalized K-12 tutoring for students across the Denver metro area, with instruction in reading, math, writing, and science led by a licensed educator with more than 35 years of classroom experience. Every session is built around the individual student, not a fixed lesson plan, so families get academic support that actually matches their child's needs.
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Closing Gaps, Building Confidence

The mission behind Bridging Your Gap Tutoring is simple: help every K-12 student strengthen academic skills, close learning gaps, and build the confidence to keep growing on their own. That focus on measurable progress, paired with steady communication with parents, is what guides every assessment, lesson plan, and tutoring session.

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Families choose Bridging Your Gap Tutoring because of the experience behind it: 35+ years in K-12 education as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, Assistant Principal, and Dean of Instruction. Instruction is grounded in research-based teaching strategies, progress is tracked through ongoing assessment, and parents stay informed at every step, so tutoring in Denver stays personal instead of generic.
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Shawanda Buggs, Founder & CEO

Shawanda Buggs founded Bridging Your Gap Tutoring, LLC after more than 35 years working in K-12 education across the Denver area. Her career spans the classroom and the front office alike, having served as a classroom teacher, instructional coach, Assistant Principal, Dean of Instruction, and district instructional leader. That range of experience gives her a rare vantage point on how students learn and what actually helps them succeed.


Shawanda holds a Master's Degree in Curriculum and Instruction and a Bachelor's Degree in Liberal Arts from the Center for Urban Education. She is a licensed educator and instructional leader with deep expertise in literacy, mathematics, curriculum implementation, and data-driven instruction, along with hands-on experience in MTSS, intervention planning, progress monitoring, and student assessment.


Throughout her career, Shawanda has coached fellow educators, led school-wide instructional strategy, and worked directly with students to close learning gaps and build academic confidence. She founded Bridging Your Gap Tutoring to bring that same depth of experience directly to families, pairing personalized instruction with the kind of steady, informed guidance that comes from decades in the field. Her focus remains on helping every student build the skills and confidence to keep learning long after tutoring ends.