Fighting for Literacy Since 1995

Great Leaps is family-owned and operated out of Gainesville Florida and we're incredibly proud of the impact our small team has made through the years!
30+

Years in Business

A trusted leader in building reading fluency
+1.2 Yrs

Growth in 3 Months

This is the average grade level reading growth of our students
4.9

Out of 5 Stars

Great service and even better student results
500,000

Students Impacted

Our reading intervention has reached all 50 states and 40+ countries
Kenneth Campbell

Kenneth Campbell

Author & Founder

His 36 year teaching career and his extensive study of accomplished academic researchers certainly adds credibility to the highly effective Great Leaps programs, but his passion to help children is really the driving force behind the company and its growth. Although he will always be a teacher at heart, there came a time when Great Leaps allowed his impact on students to grow beyond teaching one classroom at a time. So the accidental entrepreneur was born.
Colin Campbell

Colin Campbell

President

Colin began with Great Leaps packing orders in high school and has been involved with every role in the company before creating and launching the Great Leaps Tutoring service in 2020 then ultimately taking over from his father as the president of Great Leaps. He studied business and entrepreneurship at the University of Florida while building an intimate knowledge Great Leaps as a business and world class reading intervention.
Kayla Morris

Kayla Morris

Tutoring Director

Kayla's experience with Great Leaps began implementing it in the classroom and seeing it's impact with her own daughter. Her passion for the program and experience as a parent is why she consistently goes above and beyond to serve our parents and tutors, embodying the very essence of our mission to empower learners and transform lives. She is the heart of Great Leaps tutoring and the ultimate support for our families.
1995 - Diarmuid Inc.
Ken Campbell was a special ed teacher at North Marion middle faced with over 100 non readers. As an educator, this was unacceptable. Using his classroom experience and background in precision teaching and behavior he wrote the Great Leaps Reading program then incorporated under the name Diarmuid.
2000 - Proven by Research
Dr. Cecil Mercer, a professor at the University of Florida, discovered Ken's work spearheaded a research paper that validated the effectiveness of the program. Cecil D. Mercer, Kenneth U. Campbell, M. David Miller, Kenneth D. Mercer & Holly B. Lane (2000) Effects of a Reading Fluency Intervention for Middle Schoolers With Specific Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities Research & Practice15:4, 179-189.
2017 - GL Digital Launch
Ken recognized the advantages in data gathering and student tracking offered from digital platforms. The ability to implement Great Leaps at a larger scale in the school systems while monitoring student data and fidelity of implementation was critical.
2020 - GL Tutoring Launch
Colin was exposed to the effectiveness of English Tutoring online and recognized a perfect fit for providing Great Leaps' short daily sessions remotely. We were then fortunate to launch just before schools closed during the pandemic and provide a valuable and effective resource for students to help them actually catch up in reading while many were falling behind.

Our Mission

To empower the minds and shape the futures of our students to enable them to achieve their full potential through simple and effective educational programs.