Brad Hoffman, Author at My Learning Springboard

Having Report Card Conversations with Children

October 24, 2016 Brad Hoffman

Report cards present a wonderful opportunity for families to recognize and encourage the academic progress by having report card conversations with children. To support your child to do his/her best academic work you may want to:

Offer praise and positive feedback for the academic work accomplished, good effort made, and for good school attendance
set aside a specific time to discuss the report with your child and demonstrate an understanding of the school’s grade-level objectives, the student’s personal objectives, and the family’s objectives for education.
Follow through with your child’s teachers, counselor or administrator if there is a concern about academic progress.
Remain aware of your child’s assignments and responsibilities.
Encourage good study habits.
Remember that homework not only includes assignments given by teachers, but also involves work on long-term projects, enrichment reading and review of concepts studied in class.
Continue to stay involved in the school by volunteering as much as possible so that you can get first-hand knowledge about the curriculum and programs being offered.

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Brittney Wilcox

August 29, 2016

Brittney Wilcox is an experienced private tutor across ages and subjects, with particular expertise in the humanities, writing and research skills, and organizational and executive functioning coaching. For over ten years, Brittney has provided tutoring and academic support to students from elementary through high school in private and public school settings. Brittney partners with students to enrich their learning, transform their study habits, develop confidence, increase motivation and self-awareness, and improve academic performance. Her students (and their parents) appreciate Brittney’s encouraging, creative, and organized approach to teaching. She believes there is no “one-size-fits-all” method of instruction, so she differentiates lessons and scaffolds learning accordingly. She is especially passionate about literacy and instilling in her students a love for reading. Brittney strives to help learners—of any age, in any language—confidently express their stories and voices through the written word.

Outside of her one-on-one work with students, Brittney is a professional in the field of international education, specializing in language, literacy, and education in emergencies. Brittney currently manages community-based English programs for the International Center—an organization providing ESOL/adult education opportunities for immigrants and refugees throughout New York. She earned her Master’s degree in International Educational Development from Columbia University’s Teachers College, where she was also a research assistant, curriculum development intern, and contributing editor for the Journal for African Education. Her master’s thesis analyzed the world language children’s collection of the New York Public Library. Prior to her current role with the International Center, Brittney worked at a Nordic cultural foundation in Manhattan and served as the chief of staff for the president of a biomedical research foundation. Originally from Seattle, Brittney moved to the East Coast to study journalism and French at New York University. As an undergrad, she interned in children’s book publishing at Penguin Books and spent six months studying literature and the arts in Paris.

In her free time Brittney enjoys traveling with her husband, volunteering in her community, reading YA novels and The Economist, learning new languages, taking barre classes, pursuing creative projects, and listening to NPR.

Dan Moore

June 13, 2016

Dan Moore graduated from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor’s degree in Television Writing and a Master’s degree in English Education. He has worked as either a private tutor, a special education paraprofessional or a permanent substitute in New York City public schools since he graduated in 2012.

Dan Moore has managed and run in-class college essay-writing workshops and tutored/taught a variety of subjects including all levels of English, History, Social Studies and some Sciences. He also specializes in SAT, ACT, ISEE, CTP and Stanford-Binet test preparation. In addition to these, Dan helps his mom (a music teacher for the last 30 years in New Jersey) run a weekly class teaching sketch comedy to elementary students during the winter.

Dan’s teaching style is highly personal and highly empathetic; he is adept at tailoring his lessons to the individual learning needs of his students. He has the subject-area expertise to really challenge the highest-level learners but also the patience and teaching experience to maximize sessions with students whose greatest strength lies in other subjects. Having worked in New York City public schools for several years, he has seen all kinds of learners and can use their strengths to work on their weaknesses.

During the pandemic, Dan attended a coding bootcamp and began working as a full-time computer programmer in 2022. He tutors in the evenings after slowly, patiently reducing the number of error messages he sees all day long and getting phone menus and call trees to work.

Outside of teaching and programming, Dan is a Sports Emmy-nominated writer for Bleacher Report’s animated series Game of Zones.

Faya Hoffman

May 20, 2016

Faya Hoffman, Educational Consultant and Co-Founder of My Learning Springboard (MLS), is a graduate of List College at Columbia University and JTS, where she earned dual degrees. Faya then received a Master’s degree at JTS specializing in Curriculum and Instruction. Faya is trained in PAF Reading Intervention, an Orton-Gillingham based approach, Judith Hochman’s Teaching Basic Writing Skills, Singapore Math, and a variety of other programs, methodologies, and curricula.

Faya strongly believes in the power of collaboration and advocates for a holistic, 360-degree view of education that is grounded in sensibility and balance. Faya and her husband, Brad Hoffman, founded My Learning Springboard in 2009.

Faya and Brad partner with each family to provide an integrated and meaningful experience, which often includes collaboration with school faculty and related service professionals at a family’s request. Through their unique structure and individualized approach, they offer a wide range of services to students, families, and schools. They see learning as a lifelong journey, and their goal is to help students of all ages enjoy the ride, build confidence, and achieve success.

Faya and Brad are both Board Certified Educational Planners (a specialized type of Educational Consultant) and Learning Specialists. As a boutique multidisciplinary educational consulting firm and Learning Concierge® service, My Learning Springboard offers a wide range of educational consulting services at every level from nursery through college.

These services include:

Our school planning and placement expertise includes both day schools and boarding schools across mainstream, specialized, and therapeutic settings as well as virtual schools and homeschooling.

Professional Associations

Faya Hoffman is a Board Certified Educational Planner (AICEP) and Professional Member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA) with specialty designations in mainstream day and boarding schools, specialized schools for students with learning disabilities, and therapeutic placements, including therapeutic boarding schools, residential treatment centers, and wilderness programs. She is also a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) as well as the National Association of Therapeutic Schools and Programs (NATSAP).

My Learning Springboard is a member of ISAAGNY, a consortium of independent schools in and around New York City, and Brad Hoffman C0-Chairs the committee Friends of ISAAGNY, which includes educational consultants and community-based organizations. My Learning Springboard is also a member of The Enrollment Management Association (EMA, formerly SSATB) as well as WISER, the Washington Independent Services for Educational Resources (WISER), which is a network of professional leaders in the Washington, DC metro area.

Faya Hoffman’s Corporate Background

Prior to joining My Learning Springboard, Faya was Director of Public Relations for Karla Otto and, previously, an Account Executive with Paul Wilmot Communications. Faya represented luxury brands and major fashion labels, including J. Mendel, Solange Azagury-Partridge, John Galliano, Kanye West, Jerome Dreyfuss, Oscar de la Renta, Tommy Hilfiger, and H&M. She was also responsible for managing and executing fashion shows each season for New York City and Paris Fashion Weeks. Beyond her fashion clients, Faya also represented American Ballet Theater and God’s Love We Deliver.

Faya Hoffman’s LinkedIn profile

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Faya Hoffman

My Learning Springboard, Inc.

Board Certified Educational Planner

A multidisciplinary educational consulting firm specializing in school planning, academic tutoring, and test preparation.

Upper West Side

New York,NY

10024

faya@mylearningspringboard.com

Phone: +1 (646) 580-9794

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Jennifer Fields

May 16, 2016

Jennifer Mann Fields is an elementary school teacher and private tutor who has worked in the Montgomery County Public School System (Maryland) for her entire career (nearly 30 years). She has experience teaching multiple grade levels in a diverse, suburban school setting. Jennifer believes that the key to providing a strong educational environment for her students is to create lasting relationships between teacher, student, and family. After those connections are formed, Jennifer has been able to encourage her children to move past their wildest expectations.

Throughout her career, Jennifer has had extensive experiences with all different types of learners. She has been a General Education Teacher in a Special Education Inclusion classroom many different times. These classrooms require Jennifer to collaborate with Special Education Teachers quite often and work together to best meet the needs of a wide variety of learning styles and challenges. Most frequently Jennifer works with children who have specific learning disabilities (in the areas of reading, writing, or math), ADD/ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Individual accommodations are implemented in Jennifer’s classroom so that everyone has an equal chance to access all curriculum.

In addition, Jennifer has also worked with students who are in need of extra enrichment. She has taught the William & Mary Reading Program, Junior Great Books, Jacob’s Ladder, and Soar to Success. Along with many other reading programs, Jennifer is able to stretch her students to reach their highest potential. In the area of Mathematics, Jennifer has taught very advanced concepts (middle school math classes) to children as young as 3rd and 4th grade. She was the Math Olympiad Club Coordinator in addition to running the schoolwide Family Math Program that brought in families in the evenings to help learn how to love math at home!

Currently Jennifer is an English Facilitator in a Spanish Two-Way Immersion school. She shares a total of 46 students with a Spanish Facilitator and each of them teach two classes filled with 4th graders for half of a day. There is a great deal of collaboration and planning involved that makes this program run successfully. While Jennifer is not a complete fluent speaker of Spanish, she understands and can communicate using basic Spanish with students and parents. Teaching in this new program has allowed Jennifer to add this new challenge to her repertoire.

In all areas of her teaching, Jennifer feels that the most achievement occurs when you can meet students where they are and then go from there! She incorporates various learning styles into her instruction and makes sure that she is providing continual opportunities for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic types of learners.

In addition to being a teacher, Jennifer has served as her school’s Student Government (SGA) Sponsor as well as a member of the School Improvement Team. She currently is the grade level Team Leader. Jennifer is also a Teacher Mentor to Student Interns from both American University as well as Towson University.

In her free time, Jennifer enjoys spending time with her family and friends, singing, going to baseball games, as well as attending musical theater performances.

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