With over 10 years of experience in elementary schools, middle schools (both as a teacher and administrator), and over 18 years of experience tutoring, I have a commitment to success and unfaltering high expectations of all learners under my tutelage. I have a history of raising attainment and achievement. More specifically, I specialize in raising attainment in standardized test scores. I believe in teaching highly engaging and practical lessons, and strive for excellence through consistent high quality, precision teaching. I achieve success by building trust in my students through mutual respect and empathy, and most importantly, having a bit of fun while learning together!

Besides tutoring, life keeps me very busy. I am the very proud father of 3 children (two boys and a girl), and the 1st Assistant Chief with the Wilton Fire Department. 

As a certified special education teacher and literacy specialist, I have spent the past 11 years teaching children with autism, ranging in ages from 4 to 11. I specialize in developing and adapting curriculum to meet the individual needs of each student and to make learning accessible for all children. I believe that all students can learn and thrive, and my aim is to determine how to best accomplish this goal. I consider each student’s interests and strengths and use this information to make learning enjoyable and motivating.

Allison is a certified teacher with a Master’s degree in Elementary Education from Connecticut. Allison, also has a business degree in Marketing and did a complete career change to becoming a teacher while raising her 3 kids. She moved to Saratoga Springs with her husband and kids in 2014. She is certified in grades K-8. and has been teaching and tutoring for over 20+ years. She has worked in Connecticut as a teacher for 13 years, along with the Saratoga Springs City School District since 2017. She has also done substituting work in the Ballston Spa School District and 1+ year at the Saratoga Independent School. 

Allison has had a great deal of experience working with students in General Education and Special Education and identifying their needs. She specializes in Math, Reading and Writing. She loves tutoring students and it shows by the success rate of all the happy students and families she has worked with over the years. The most important goal for Allison, is for each student to believe in themselves. Her talent is boosting every student’s self-esteem and motivation to learn. Allison makes sure that every student believes in themselves. She makes learning fun and always develops a great rapport with all her students. When Allison isn’t tutoring, she loves to paint, garden, and spend time at the beach with her family.

Tziona Rose is a passionate math tutor, who has been professionally tutoring since 2011. She has her bachelors in mathematics from Binghamton University, and her Masters in the Art of Teaching from Empire State College. Currently she is working on getting her New York State Teaching License.

Tziona has consistently taken students and empowered them in mathematics, taking them from failing to succeeding in their mathematics abilities, and helping them love math as much as she does. When Tziona is not tutoring she is enjoying life in Saratoga Springs; you can usually find her at the Saratoga Public Library or at the Westside Rec with her two daughters.

Andy has thirty years’ experience teaching Math, Science, and Social Studies in both public and private schools.   He has undergraduate degrees in Civil Engineering and History, and a Master’s in Teaching.  After retiring from the classroom two years ago, he has tutored a variety of courses within those subjects including Pre-Algebra, Algebra, Geometry, Precalculus, Earth Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, Global and US History, Economics, and Government. He has worked with students having a wide range of learning aptitudes, learning styles and learning differences. 

He is committed to the idea that tutoring is an opportunity to help a student not only to overcome existing difficulties, but more importantly to develop the skills, the understanding, and the confidence in their own abilities so that they can move forward and achieve success on their own. 

Gorman Ruggiero started working with Children on the Autism Spectrum in 1982, when most children were not being diagnosed. At that time they were called ‘challenged children’ and Gorman began developing modified acting techniques to teach them fundamental communication skills. Ruggiero was a Conservatory Trained Classical Actor and found that these techniques could be used therapeutically very early on. Gorman worked at numerous schools, community centers, mental health centers and colleges setting up programs for his Communication Skills Process (CSP), LLC where group work was vital to improving the lives of special needs children and their parents.

Ruggiero developed CSP programs at Philadelphia Mental Health Center, Delaware Valley Childrens Center, Bristol Township School District, SUNY Purchase Psychology Program, Resources for Human Development in Philadelphia, and the King School and Edison School in Portchester N. Y., and several cities in China, among others.

Ruggiero is founder and Executive Director of World Theatre of Children (WToC) where he combined typically developing children and Children on the Autism Spectrum in the performance of plays and musicals. This work engaged siblings and parents in a community-wide process that helped in the education of people unfamiliar with Autism and/or special needs children.