Hi. I’m Robert.

 

Are you the parent of a high schooler who struggles with writing?

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Are you yourself such a student?

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I can help right now.

 

I’m a highly experienced instructor and tutor in writing and history.

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I am patient, kind, and clear.

 

Please contact me now and let me help your child blossom as a thinker and as a writer.

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I have been empowering students to write and analyze effectively for twenty years. Now, I would love to help you. I listen carefully to students and let them (and their parents) tell me what they need. My PhDs are in history and American studies. I have published several pieces, including a 2017 book with Cambridge University Press.

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Your child's admission into the college of their choice—or simply getting into college at all—might be a concern for you. If your child lacks the skills necessary to master essay composition, 

I can help ease your worries. If your child needs help in history class, I can equip him or her to succeed.

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Perhaps the greatest single concern for middle-school students and their parents is to perform well on the entrance exams required for admission to many high schools. The essays that many schools require of applicants often seem especially daunting to those students who struggle with writing. Such students may face a disadvantage when seeking admission into their preferred high schools.

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If your child is a high-schooler or middle-schooler at risk of not performing well enough on these crucial examinations, I can patiently walk along beside them through the entire writing process. If your child worries about slipping behind their classmates, I can help them gain their footing. If they write relatively well but want to rise to the next level, I can help pilot them to the heights of their potential.

 

Please contact me!

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Young learners deserve to move beyond “I can’t.” Tutoring helps them take that step. A tutor needs to create a new learning context, apart from classroom, workplace, friends, and family, in which a student can move beyond fear or confusion and toward confidence and creativity.

 

To accomplish this, a tutor must listen with their heart as much as their ears, in order to understand their students (and their students' parents) at the deepest level. Every tutoring relationship requires the tutor to tap into their empathy for that student. It is crucial that they ascertain and then emphasize each student’s particular strengths as a learner. An ideal tutor relies not only on careful preparation but also on intuition when determining which way “to turn” whenever the unexpected arises. The ultimate goal in tutoring should be to awaken the spirit of inquiry and self-expression inside every client.