About Us - Schoolhouse Tutors

About Us

Our tutors are ambitious young people pursuing their educational, professional, and personal goals. While they are in the midst of their journey, they have already accomplished a great deal.

Schoolhouse Tutors are: medical school students and Ph.D. candidates at New York University Medical School and Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Law students at New York University Law School, past and present high school teachers, professional standardized test specialists, college admissions coaches, published authors, social workers, volunteers at schools and hospitals, and musicians.

Meet some of the Schoolhouse Tutors

Jonathan graduated magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University where he double majored in Philosophy and Religious Studies and double minored in Astronomy and English. At Vanderbilt, Jonathan, named "Mr. Football" in the state of Tennessee as a high school senior, enjoyed a successful collegiate playing career as a three-year letterman and three-time Academic SEC Honor Roll. Back in Nashville, Jonathan co-founded along with his sister, Shaub SAT Tutoring and helped prepare over 75 students for the SAT and ACT as a course instructor and private tutor over the course of four consecutive summers. After spending his first year out of college interning in Kyiv, Ukraine, teaching English, studying Russian, and working with a nonprofit organization, Jonathan is in New York teaching SAT prep courses, including an intensive six-week program at El Puente Academy for Peace and Justice in Brooklyn, and doing one-on-one tutoring in SAT I and in a variety of school subjects.

Heather graduated from Smith College with a self-defined major in Logic: Mathematical Structures and Reasoning and a minor in Spanish and spent Junior Year Abroad in Seville, Spain. Heather began tutoring in Los Angeles four years ago and currently works with students for the SAT, PSAT, ISEE, Math, English, and Spanish. An avid traveler and runner, Heather is currently training for the New York City Marathon. A freelance writer, Heather has been published in a plethora of magazines and newspapers; she is presently completing her novel.

Eli grew up in New York City. He attended Hunter College Elementary and High School. He graduated from Tufts University in 2001 as an English major. Eli has spent two years assistant teaching and this past year he taught mathematics at Middle School 246. Eli is currently a freelance tutor, focusing in math. He loves to read, play basketball, and listen to jazz music. Eli is also helping to start a non-profit organization, Students Exceeding Expectations, Inc., to offer tutoring to public school students.

Maya graduated Cum Laude from New York University with a BA in Linguistic Anthropology. She is currently the Head of the Public Relations at a NYC-based record label in addition to working as an SAT tutor with Schoolhouse Tutors. Before joining Schoolhouse, she taught SAT and PSAT prep at The Princeton Review for three years (receiving a 100% recommendation rate from her students) and also taught Hebrew language and cultural studies to elementary-school students. Maya, bilingual in English and Italian and conversant in several other languages, is a gifted, truly inspiring young person.

Paul graduated from Wesleyan University with a BA in physics, and is currently pursuing graduate work in psychology at the New School for Social Research. He has written math problems and lesson plans for the Princeton Review Online as well as a nationally-used geometry textbook, and was a teaching assistant for Calculus, Special Relativity, and Chaos Theory in college. An avid reader, Paul possesses a wealth of knowledge about varied and often esoteric subjects. He also plays the guitar and has been working on a self-produced album of songs about household chores. An easy-going guy with a persistent sense of humor, Paul specializes in tutoring math, physics, history, and English.

Faith is a singer and recent graduate of Harvard University where she received her B.A. in Biology. In her home state of Washington, Faith worked as a private tutor and as an instructor for Kumon USA. At Kumon, she focused on developing the reading and math skills of her students who ranged in age from 4-16. Through the Jian Hua Foundation, Faith, who is proficient in Mandarin Chinese, taught English in a small, rural village in China during the summer of 2004. Faith tutors primarily Math and Science for Schoolhouse Tutors.

Jennifer holds a Masters degree in Curriculum and Teaching from Teachers College, Columbia University and a Bachelors degree in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. With 18 years of experience as an educator, both in the classroom and in private tutoring of students in Grades K-12, Jennifer uses methods that help students learn faster and with more retention by making the experience positive and interactive. She encourages students to solve problems in a variety of ways, such as with manipulatives, demonstrations, or visual aids. She has students “teach back” the subject they have learned, and gets them talking and moving around. Additionally, role play, field trips, and real world experiences may be introduced, when appropriate. Jennifer communicates an enthusiasm and love for learning, no matter what subject she is teaching. Jennifer is the founder of LearnGarden, an organization dedicated to better learning.

Alex graduated from Cornell University on the Dean's List, where he majored in sociology. He has worked as a freelance tutor in all subjects for elementary, junior and high school students throughout New York, and has helped prepare students for the SAT, SSAT, and ISEE. He was an English and History teacher at Shanghai High School in Shanghai, China, where he also prepared Chinese juniors for the SAT test to attend American universities. Alex helped create the inventory as well as teach classes about college essay writing for 826NYC, a free tutoring center in Brooklyn run by McSweeney's magazine. He has also worked as a volunteer mentor at the Harlem Children's Zone. Alex is pursuing a Doctorate in Communications Theory, and hopes to help shape health and educational messages for future generations of adolescents.

Sarah graduated summa cum laude and with departmental Honors from Northwestern University, majoring in Performance Studies. While in Chicago, she spent a year working with the Redmoon Theater's award-winning DramaGirls Program, a multi-disciplinary arts education and empowerment program for young women in Logan Square. She began teaching for Kaplan in New York City five years ago and tutoring students one-on-one. She is currently the Head Teacher for Goddard Riverside Center's SAT prep class. In addition to SAT I prep, she tutors students in literature and academic writing. Sarah has directed a Shakespeare institute for high school students in Vermont for the past two years and developed a girls’ drama class for the East Harlem Tutorial Program. She enjoys traveling, bicycling, and utilizing bad puns to teach vocabulary.

	Director Jeff Lane, an alum of Hunter College High School in Manhattan and a 2001 Honors graduate of Wesleyan University, has been involved in the tutoring business since 1999. In Middletown, Connecticut, Jeff directed a major tutoring program with over fifty tutors and has been a freelance private tutor in New York for the past four years. He founded Schoolhouse Tutors in 2002.
A talented writer, Jeff has completed a book on the sociology and history of the last 30 years in college and professional basketball called Under the Boards: The Cultural Revolution in Basketball (University of Nebraska Press, May 2007).