About Us
Our Story
Be Brilliant! Tutoring was created by a group of highly talented and deeply experienced educators who know three very important things about virtually every child:
- Humans are born brilliant and they naturally find joy in learning.
- If that brilliance and joy are not showing up fully – or sometimes, sadly, hardly at all – in their school work, there’s an answer.
- Through the use of highly specialized materials and techniques that ensure learners always know what they’re doing, and why, they all can learn how to tackle every school subject with the same verve and self-assurance you saw when they were babies and toddlers.
Our founders and tutors, with advanced degrees, from Masters to Doctorates in education, have expertise in an instructional approach, called the Subordination of Teaching to Learning, that keeps students in touch with their natural brilliance and love of learning.
We know how to tap their inherent capacity and drive to know more and how to clarify, with them, the way to excel in school, whether they’re already doing well, or struggling to keep up, or anywhere in between.
The Be Brilliant! Approach
We devote ourselves to knowing every child as the unique individual they are. Then, throughout every meeting after that, we analyze what may be interfering with the full progress they could enjoy and we adjust our instruction accordingly.
We don’t use canned computerized instruction or more traditional, rigidly pre-scripted materials that attempt to control learning. Instead, we rely on our deep experience as successful educators to personally interact with your child during every moment, seeking the most learning in return for their time and attention.
Simply put, our teaching is guided by their learning.
Our Process
Listen
We Listen attentively to parents from our very first contact and make a joint decision to ensure we are the services needed.
Match
We Match every child with the right Master Teacher, highly skilled in addressing their specific needs.
Attend
We Attend carefully to the person we meet, whether 4-years-old or in their teen years, analyzing not simply their subject matter needs, but also how they relate to academic challenges.
Adjust
We Adjust our instruction in real time, responding to the actual learning, moving as swiftly as appropriate and always with care and respect.
Inform
We Inform parents about progress and challenges, both during our time with their child and once our sessions wrap up.
How we compare
Other Tutoring Centers | Be Brilliant! Tutoring | |
|---|---|---|
Teaching Style | Tutors dictate how things work | Students discover how things work |
Learner experience | Learners are confined to a closed box, adhering to prescribed ways of thinking | Learners are free to “color outside the lines” |
Preconceptions | Students are empty vessels to be filled with facts and rigid procedures | Students are equipped with bountiful learning powers they have practiced since birth |
Assumptions | Children need to be taught how to learn | Children are born brilliant, with a powerful ability to learn |
Materials | Black & white worksheets that students fill out | Colorful, hands-on resources that foster understanding |
Testing & Mastery | Test ability to parrot exactly what was shown/explained | Assesses true understanding of the topic and capacity to apply that understanding to new material |
Progression & Pacing | Small, incremental steps to solve problems, which slows learning | Seeing patterns and connections, which accelerates learning |
Ah ha! moment | Learners are led by the nose to get the expected answer | Learners discover an understanding or relationship they did not previously see |
Process | Answers are prescribed through memorized, tedious procedures | Answers are derived through discovered patterns and connections |
Basis for learning | Stress on memorization | Stress on understanding |
Mistakes | Mistakes treated as unwelcome events that simply indicate lack of progress | Mistakes welcomed as guidance and feedback to the instructor and student |
Success | Tutors are strongly invested in a quick, “correct” outcome and a rush to success | Tutors focus on the process, with a calm, unhurried demeanor that fosters comfort and confidence in the learner |
Self-learning | Tutors leave students on their own, to read instructions and then spend hours on repetitious drill | Tutors are present and attentive, providing just what is needed, not too much, not too little |
Focus of instruction | Presenting facts | Presenting challenges |
BBT Guarantee
We know how to help children achieve better grades and test scores.
We’ve done it!
That’s actually the easier part.
We go beyond better grades and test scores.
In fact, Be Brilliant! Tutoring’s unique approach can transform your child’s learning journey. By the end of our time with your child, you can expect to see tangible improvements in one or more of the following essential components for success in school and life:
Confidence
Eagerness to Learn
Motivation
Curiosity
