Since graduating from Vassar College, Michelle has integrated teaching into all aspects of her professional life. Michelle prepped students for the SAT Critical Reasoning Test and the LSAT for the Princeton Review, tutored student athletes as a graduate student at the University of Texas - Austin, taught art history courses at UT, trained docents at The Jewish Museum in New York, worked at The Reutter and Riddle Empowered Learning Center, which caters to students with learning and attention problems, and designed museum exhibitions with the education of children as the focus. For the past three years, Michelle has enjoyed coaching students of all ages and abilities with the Hoffman Educational Group.

Michelle specializes in helping clients become the best students they can be. She teaches students how to manage their time for maximum performance, how to efficiently read assignments, how to prepare for mid-terms and finals throughout the school year rather than at crunch time, how to prepare for long-term assignments, how to effectively research for papers and projects, and how to study. In addition, Michelle tutors specific subject areas, in particular writing, literature, history, upper-level French, Italian, Spanish, and German. She assists students prepare and edit applications for boarding school and college.

Michelle is married and a mother of three rambunctious boys under the age of seven. She sees herself as not just a tutor but also a mentor and an additional source of emotional support for her students.

Beginning in 2008, Michelle assumed the role of the Director of Operations at Hoffman Education Group. As such, she communicates with prospective clients and connects them with the best tutor/academic coach for their child, participates in vetting prospective tutors, and manages the day-to-day functioning of the business.

Tammy’s extensive academic background allows her to wear many hats at Hoffman Educational Group. As an academic coach and learning specialist, Tammy integrates her knowledge of neuroscience and learning theory to help students develop cross-disciplinary skills and strategies that address short-term goals for academic success, as well as long-term goals such as organization, time management, confidence-building, decision-making and self-regulated learning. Because of Tammy’s training, her approach benefits both students with special needs and students who need to fine-tune their approach to school. Tammy helps students with abilities all along the learning spectrum, particularly working with students diagnosed with ADD, ADHD, executive functioning issues, and other issues. As a subject tutor, Tammy’s knowledge embraces the entire spectrum of academic disciplines — from math to science, from writing and literature to social studies and history. In addition to tutoring across the curriculum, Tammy also prepares students for standardized tests, including CMT, SSAT/ISEE, CAPT, PSAT/SAT, ACT, GED, GRE, PRAXIS, and others. Because of the breadth of Tammy’s skills, she can combine assistance in a particular subject area with expertise in how to accommodate all learning styles and issues, helping students to leverage their strengths to counterbalance areas of difficulty.

Tammy is currently working toward a Master's in Clinical Social Work with the intention of adding a therapeutic piece to her work. The insight she is gaining into the interaction of psychology and environment is greatly influencing her work with students. Her approach is getting to the heart of how her students learn in order to help them achieve maximum efficiency and effectiveness in their academic endeavors.

Tammy’s interest in education began as an undergraduate at Bates College. Choosing to pursue a pre-med track, Tammy double majored in Biology and Psychology. Due to her outstanding academic achievements and talent, she was hired by Bates as a science tutor and served as a teaching assistant for several science and statistic/research methodology courses. During her summers, Tammy continued to pursue her passion for teaching, working as a teaching assistant to groups of gifted minority high school students attending summer science camps at Bates.

After graduating magna cum laude, Tammy went on to earn her MA, MPhil and PhD in Psychology from Columbia University. While completing her graduate research, which focused on cognition and neural networks, Tammy kept teaching. She instructed Columbia undergraduates in lecture and lab environments in the areas of psychology, neuroscience and statistics.

Jeff has years of experience successfully tutoring and teaching students of varying levels of ability and motivation. He adapts instructional methods to meet the unique needs of the individual student and strives to empower each student with the skills and knowledge that will allow them to be effective problem solvers and independent learners. Jeff has an established track record of success in strengthening skills, increasing confidence, and improving the performance of his students.

Tutoring sessions may be dedicated to identifying strengths and needs of the student, formulating effective learning strategies, improving organizational and study skills, and/or providing targeted assistance in specific subject areas of mathematics. Jeff has helped students at various levels (remedial to AP and college) in specific subject areas ranging from Pre-Algebra through Calculus, as well as SAT preparation.

Jeff earned his Bachelors degree from the Johns Hopkins University and his Masters and Doctorate degrees from the University of Virginia. He has held full-time teaching positions at Virginia Commonwealth University, Westhill High School, and King & Low-Heywood Thomas School, and has also taught at the University of Virginia.

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