Our Services
Experience and Insight
We understand the pressures and challenges your child faces in high school and middle, school juggling a heavy school workload, participating in after-school sports, drama, and other pursuits, and arriving home exhausted with multiple homework assignments, quizzes, and tests to prepare for in the short term. That’s why our day starts when your child’s school day is over.
We are available Sunday through Thursday from 7:00pm to 11:00pm to guide, partner and support your child to complete assignments, build writing, reading, test prep and organizational skills to make your child more proficient and efficient. This will not only help him/her stay on top of his/her workload, but also learn skills that will make him/her successful in middle school, high school and college.
In our day jobs, we work with students whose skills, backgrounds, and degree of support needed vary significantly. We teach the students we work with the concepts, processes, and personal advocacy skills to be focused, efficient, master the concepts and processes of learning, and improve their grades.
Please see our special offerings below
May/June—We offer Regents preparation guidance to ensure your son/daughter passes the Regents with flying colors.
June/July/August—Special Financial Literacy Class for High School Students, Orton-Gillingham Class for students who need to ramp up their reading skills to grade level, reading comprehension, persuasive writing, creative writing, math process and problem solving skills classes are available as well.
What We Offer
We offer a variety of levels of capacity building, guiding, partnering with and supporting students:
Regents Preparation:
English, American History, and Global Studies Regents Preparation- The focus is on comprehension assessment and writing to give your child a leg up for doing well in his/her class and passing the Regents. at the end of the year.
Financial Literacy for High School Students: One of the most important gifts you can give your child this year. An overview of how our financial system works and how to create wealth to live the life you want and according to your values.
Building Strategic Reading Skills and Annotation - Students learn the reading engagement skills to become higher level thinkers.
Building Persuasive Essay Writing Skills - Students learn the process, structure, components, and reasoning/explanation skills of writing multi-paragraph persuasive essays.
Building Effective Sentence Writing/Vocabulary Skills - An often over-looked sub-skill which is important to learning how to express oneself at a high level.
Overseeing and Guiding Reading Assignments and Overseeing Reading and Writing Assignments - More substantive support to help the student complete his assignment. Reading and writing process skills are also taught.
Partnering and Guiding Writing Assignments - Tutor helps student brainstorm, rehearse, and scribe ideas, allowing student to refine his thinking. Prioritizing ideas, finding support in the text, and developing reasoning/explanation skills are also modeled.
Organizing and Coordinating Homework Assignments and Organizing, Calendaring and Follow Through Skills - The focus is on understanding what the assignment is asking, determining the sub-tasks, and developing a timeline/calendar for completion of sub-tasks, as well as assistance in adhering to the timeline.
Please feel free to contact us (hit the blue Contact Us button) if you have any questions, or don’t see a skill which you would like your son to acquire on the list.
Tutoring Sessions and Fees
Tutoring sessions run 50 minutes for a single session, 75 minutes for a 1.5 session and 100 minutes for a double session. Weekly emails including brief updates and brief reports on student progress will be regularly sent out. We are always available to speak with you about your child’s progress.
Please contact us regarding our fees. We offer tutoring Sunday - Thursday nights from 7:00pm - 11:00pm.
Friday and Sunday Mornings: By special arrangement.
We recognize that our families have complicated and busy lives. There will be no charge for a session cancelled at the last minute provided the session will be rescheduled within a week.
In the event a writing assignment requires the tutor to read a book length text within a short time period, there will be an additional reading charge. Short time period is defined as a two week period from the initial tutoring meeting to the due date of the project.
Hours of Availability
Sunday - Thursday nights: 7:00pm - 11:00pm
Friday and Sunday mornings by special arrangement