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All of our tutors are Stanford educated - but Stanford affiliation is just a minimum application requirement. Our strong reputation within the Stanford community gives us the luxury of choosing the best instructors from a large pool of highly qualified applicants - and our rigorous selection process ensures that every team member is a consummate educator.
2009 Hiring Statistics: Of the 80 Stanford-educated candidates who completed our 6-page application, 32 were selected to meet with us for a two-hour interview, sample lesson presentation, and reference review. Of those, just 18 were invited to join our staff.
We take pride in our reputation for our professionalism and our ability, as university students, to connect especially well with our tutees.
We provide our tutors with ongoing professional development and curriculum support to ensure effective teaching and learning.
Founding Director: Christina Lee, Management Science and Engineering Stanford, 2003
Like so many of our tutors, I began teaching young. Yet, I never planned to become an educator. Dismayed by the low pay, lack of support, and lack of respect afforded most teachers in the U.S, my parents (who hold degrees in education administration), discouraged me from pursuing a teaching career, steering me instead toward more "viable" professions. And my acceptance at Stanford seemed to reinforce their advice - how would I repay my student loans on a teachers salary?
But watching my Stanford classmates struggle to reconcile a passion for teaching with their desire to work in a supportive environment, I began to rethink. These exceptionally bright, inspired young people are precisely the people we need teaching our nation's youth. We need to draw them into education. My personal mission: to give local students access to the brightest, most highly-educated tutors, by providing an educational program that recognizes, promotes, and rewards teaching excellence and innovation.
Call us so we can create an effective learning plan for you. 650.283.3636
Marcus Hammond has been tutoring high school and college students since 2004, in Physics, Calculus, and Mechanical Engineering. After winning the L.C. Lichty & E.O. Waters Mechanical Engineering Award for High Scholarship and Original Research, Marcus graduated with Distinction from Yale University in 2008, with a BS in Mechanical Engineering; currently, he is pursuing a PhD in Aerospace Engineering at Stanford University. Marcus is a creative tutor, who really enjoys "the process of figuring out teaching strategies that suit the individual." Marcus believes that the best way to communicate difficult concepts to his students is to relate new material to familiar paradigms, and motivate interest by linking abstract concepts to their real-world applications. Here at the Stutors, Marcus helps our students with Physics, Calculus, Engineering and Computer Science. With 800's in his verbal and math SAT's, and 5's on his Math and Physics AP's, Marcus has plenty of test preparation strategies to share as well! Marcus facts: when he's not entering aero-engineering competitions, Marcus, a three-sport varsity athlete, teaches, choreographs and performs Salsa for the Stanford community. And in summer 2008, Marcus put his skills to work for Walt Disney Imagineering, where he prototyped a novel, magnetically-driven animatronic eye....
Eva Tuschman graduated with Distinction from Stanford 2007, with a BA in Cultural and Social Anthropology. A highly experienced writer, she received multiple awards at Stanford for excellence in writing. As a tutor, Eva puts those skills to work helping students hone their essay composition skills across humanities disciplines: Literature, History, Philosophy, Anthropology, and Psychology. She works with high school and college level students to help them develop the analytic skills that are the basis of good writing: close textual reading, critical thinking, and self-reflection. And she works with middle school students to move beyond the "book report," and build foundational skills of interpretation and analysis. When Eva joined our team, she already had two years of experience as a humanities and composition tutor, personal statement support specialist, and classroom teacher - including a stint as a visiting instructor in Studio Art at Menlo School, and substitute and assistant teacher at Berkley Montessori. Both students and teachers rave about Eva's professionalism, gentleness, deep thinking, and sensitive listening - we think you'll enjoy working with her too! Eva facts: Eva's overseas studies in anthropology have taken her to Greece and Tibet. And her combined interest in midfulness mediation and food led her to spend a summer as head chef at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Center, in Ventana Wilderness, CA!
Jean Suh holds a double PhD from Stanford, in Physics and Psychology (2008). When Jean began her PhD program, she planned to pursue a career as a physics researcher, but when she was asked to teach freshman physics, she discovered her passion for teaching. During her time at Stanford, she taught seven more physics courses - covering nearly the entire undergraduate physics program. She earned the highest recommendations from her undergraduate students who appreciated both her clarity and her dedication - and she now intends to make teaching her career. At the Stutors, Jean specializes in mathematics, physics, and Korean. She loves finding creative examples to help our students grasp new concepts, and she is excels at explaining tricky equations. Our students really appreciate Jean's expertise, encouragement, and infectious enthusiasm, and we think you will enjoy working with her too!
Taylor Phillips A student of International Education Policy in the Human Biology and Psychology departments at Stanford,Taylor is keenly interested in teaching and educational reform. She joined our team in 2007, bringing five years of teaching experience gained as both a private tutor, and as a classroom volunteer at Palo Alto's Escondido Elementary School. At the Stutors, Taylor specializes in preparing our students in all subject areas of the SAT and ACT, as well as mathematics, chemistry, and biology. With near-perfect scores on her own SAT and ACT, Taylor has plenty of test-taking skills to share, and loves using the Stutors Test Prep Program to show students that they can prepare for and master these tests too. Our students rave about Taylor's professionalism, enthusiasm, and incredibly effective teaching style. I think you'll enjoy working with her too. Taylor Facts: Taylor's post graduation plans? To help UNESCO create culturally appropriate schools in developing nations after she graduates in 2010. Taylor's recreational activities? She beat stiff competition to be chosen as a Stanford Dollie this year!
Tori Barber holds two Masters Degrees in Education: one from Harvard, and one from Stanford; and she is the exactly the kind of teacher who comes to mind when we speak of "dedicated teachers." She loves the challenge of finding the best way to teach each one of her students; she is continually observing, researching, and adjusting her approach to their unique learning styles. Tori joined out team after working for several years as a teacher and student teacher in the public schools, including the San Jose, Sunnyvale, and Palo Alto school systems. Currently, she is teaching 9th and 10th grade English in San Jose as she completes her California Teaching Credential, and prepares to apply to PhD Programs in Educational Policy. At the Stutors, Tori specializes in helping our students with Literature and Essay Composition, Japanese, Algebra, Geometry, Biology and K-8 foundational skills. She is very successful with a wide variety of students, including students with ADHD, dyslexia, and Aspergers Syndrome. Students really benefit from the combination of Tori's expertise, and firm but friendly teaching style; we think you will enjoy working with her too!
Naupaka Zimmerman. An enthusiastic teacher with a passion for helping students build confidence and discover their intellectual interests, Naupaka holds an A.B. with Honors from Harvard, where he double majored in Environmental Science and Public Policy, and Social Anthropology. We feel very fortunate to have Naupaka on our team as he works toward his PhD in Ecology at the Stanford Department of Biology. Before joining the Stutors, Naupaka was head teacher for the IBS Academy in Seoul, Korea where he specialized in intensive AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Calculus, AP Economics, AP Physics, SAT I, SAT IIs, and TOEFL courses. Naupaka is also a committed volunteer tutor; he helped low-income middle school students in the Cambridge area aim for college, and continues his service in our neighborhood as a volunteer instructor with the Boys and Girls Club of the Peninsula. At the Stutors, Naupaka helps our students with Test Preparation, as well as Biology, Chemistry, Calculus, and Essay Composition. As a former National Merit scholar, US Presidential Scholar, three-sport high school varsity athlete, and Rugby player for Harvard, Naupaka has lots of test preparation and time management skills to share! Our students appreciate Naupaka's expertise, clear explanations and his encouraging but challenging teaching style - we think you will too! Naupaka Facts: Naupaka grew up in Volcano, Hawaii. He used to tape his Chemistry equations on his surfboard so he could study while waiting for the perfect wave!
Ruby Lee: As with so many of our instructors, Ruby Lee's passion for teaching emerged early - and her tutoring career began when she was still in high school. Beginning in her freshman year, Ruby worked as a math lab tutor through her school's Students Helping Students program - by senior year, she was the Math Lab's Tutoring Program Director. She gained classroom teaching experience in high school too, interning in the math department as a classroom tutor, grader, and teaching assistant, leading classes as needed (her teachers recall Ruby's ability to "teach a subject off the cuff with no warning, and do it flawlessly"). By senior year, Ruby was working professionally in education, as Branch Manager for the central division of Massachusetts State Tutor, a peer-to-peer tutoring company where, in addition to hiring and managing tutors, Ruby continued honing her own teaching skills as a mathematics and physics specialist. All that while sweeping up more than a dozen awards in mathematics and science, presiding over Shrewsbury Highschool's Academic Decathlon team, and, as co-captain, leading Shrewsbury's Varsity Math Team to the state's semi-finals for two consecutive years! At Stanford, Ruby is working towards a BS in Materials Science Engineering. And at the Stutors, she is helping our students master Foundational Math, Algebra I and II, Calculus, Chemistry and Physics. An AP Scholar with Honors, Ruby has a lot of test preparation skill to pass on, too. And as an accomplished musician and athlete as well as a scholar (president of the Tri-M Music Honor Society, captain of the Varsity Tennis Team), she's got plenty of time management skills to share!
Camila Tapernoux: Another early starter in the education field, Camila began teaching professionally while still in 8th grade, when her music teacher began referring younger students her way so that Camila could earn money for a new violin. Not only did she earn the violin, she discovered her love of teaching - and has been teaching ever since. These days, Camila is a Writing instructor at the Stanford Writing Center, and a volunteer tutor with both the Stanford Youth Project, and East Palo Alto Tennis and Tutoring. A member of the Stutors team since 2008, together with helping our students with literature, essay composition, and math, Camila specializes in SAT / ACT Test Preparation. At Stanford, Camila completed all her coursework (for a degree in Human Biology: Technology, Policy and Ethics, with a minor Public Policy) in just three years - so she has plenty of effective time management and study skills to share with her students! And, as a National Merit Scholar who scored 2350 on her own SAT (not to mention 174 /180 on the LSAT!) she loves using Stutors' Test Prep program to show students how master their SATs, ACTs, GREs and LSATs. Our students rave about Camila's expertise and encouraging teaching style. We think you will really enjoy working with her too!
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