Mission Statement: 

To empower students to become self-sufficient learners by developing empirically-based appoaches to learning. 

Since 2002, I have taught in a wide range of settings and populations: face-to-face and online, 1-1 tutoring and small groups to large lectures, elementary to college students, test prep in multiple subjects, California to Philadelphia to Korea. There has been one commonality in all my experience: when students struggle, the root is always that they do not know how to learn. The causes can be wide and varied, but all can be addressed, and once they are, students thrive. In other words, students can all succeed; they just need to know how.

The problem is that both the public and private educational system, including after-school and summer programs, are not always designed to help students develop the ability to learn well. In the private sector, the primary reason is that developing good learners is 1) difficult and costly as few are trained in this area, and 2) if students learn to teach themselves, students will not need to continue in the program. So students are left dependent on educators who are not adequately empowering students to be independent learners.

I believe we can do better. 

However, that can only happen if parents and students are informed on what type of services they should be looking for in an educational program. My goal is to equip people with this knowledge so that they can make their own decisions to fit their needs. All of my programs are designed for students to develop the tools they need to learn on their own, with minimal time and methods that work, so that they can continue to develop in the myriad of ways that they should at their age, from passion projects to social skills, from novel experiences to community care. 

If you're interested in actually learning, with proven result-producing methods, contact me for a free consultation:

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Whether or not you use any of my services, I hope that you can come out of our time with the wisdom and tools to make well-informed decisions about your education. 

Credentials

Villanova University, Catherine of Siena Teaching Fellow

UC Santa Barbara, Ph.D in Philosophy

Boston University, M.A. in Thelogical Studies

UC Los Angeles, B.A. in Philosophy and Psychology

College Consultant, Private Tutor, SAT/AP Instructor (since 2002)

Research Interests: ethics, educational and moral psychology, philosophy of economics and science