Learning Concierge ®

Growing With Families Over Time

It has always been our mission to grow with families over time and to flexibly respond to the various needs of family members along their educational journeys. Our Learning Concierge ® service is intended to make getting started as simple as possible for families. We’re here to help with any of your educational needs.

Because we grow with families over time, we bring a unique perspective to integrated and effective educational problem solving and decision making. Over the course of a school year, we help families to navigate myriad decisions and scenarios, including but not limited to:

1. Admissions Consulting (PreK-12) and College Counseling
2. Private Tutoring and Executive Function Coaching
3. Test Preparation

Getting to know students over time and sharing in their many successes motivates us everyday. That we can grow with students from preschool to lower school to middle school to upper school to college is truly differentiating, and having expertise within each of these divisions and schooling chapters informs our planning work with families regardless of when they come forward. Brad and Faya have truly redefined educational consulting.

A Boutique Multidisciplinary Educational Consulting Firm

When we conceptualized My Learning Springboard in 2009, we envisioned a boutique multidisciplinary educational consulting firm unlike anything of its kind in NYC or beyond. We imagined a truly holistic, integrated practice that would partner closely with families, schools, and professional colleagues in ways we only wish that every industry would embrace for more effective problem solving among stakeholders. “It takes a village” is a commonly understood phrase, and we walk the walk everyday.

This week you need a biology tutor. Next week you need a Latin tutor. This term you need a writing coach. Next term you need a math specialist. Your youngest child is a struggling reader. Your oldest child wants to pursue independent study surrounding computer science. Last year was an amazing school experience, but this year is shaping up differently. Maybe you want to pursue a school exploration. Years ago we worked on the kindergarten admissions process together, and now it’s time to launch a college process.

You have 2 or 3 or 4 children and each needs a different school environment. One attends all boys, one attends all girls, one needs a specialized setting, and the youngest is in nursery school. Each student approaches work differently, and their ages require different expertise. From advanced subject areas to scaffolded and targeted remediation, we have you covered!

As a Learning Concierge ® service, our faculty includes professors, upper school teachers, lower school teachers, middle school teachers, learning specialists, special educators, subject matter experts, and early childhood educators available for in-person and/or remote instruction. We skew toward highly experienced, highly qualified teachers with advanced degrees and 5+ years of teaching experience. Many teachers have been with us for 10+ years, and this continuity speaks to our highly effective collaborative approach.

Our close working relationships with related service professionals across every field is a huge benefit to our families, too, and we’re able to VIP introductions and fast-track appointments with neuropsychologists, therapists, psychiatrists, special education attorneys, occupational therapists, speech therapists, and a variety of other professionals.

An Unexpected Turn

Sometimes the journey takes an unexpected turn, and that’s one way that we’re able to flex our unique expertise as Learning Concierges. Though families often set out to be in one school environment from grades K-12, it often plays out differently for any number of reasons. Perhaps a student who started in a single-sex school is ready to try coed, or a student who started in a religious setting is ready to try a secular school experience, or a student who started in a mainstream setting presents with a need for a transition to a specialized or therapeutic school setting. Or maybe you’re faced with an involuntary search because of disciplinary action.

It’s our creativity, tenacity, attention to detail, shared values, cross training, and collective expertise – among other qualities – that sets us apart.

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Your Learning Concierge ® Team

We don’t know any Educational Consultants with expertise to move in all of these directions or a myriad of others. That Brad and Faya are the only Board Certified Educational Planners in NYC at the K-12 level, both Learning Specialists, both College Counselors, and both triple designated by the most stringent association groups – AICEP and IECA – for mainstream, specialized, and therapeutic school planning is highly unusual. From strategic planning to crisis management, Brad and Faya bring tremendous efficacy, empathy, and patience to their partnerships with families and schools. Their 16 school years in private practice and long-term relationships with families and colleagues is a testament to their success, work ethic, and dedication to lifelong learning.

Brad and Faya are your Learning Concierge ® team, and working with My Learning Springboard provides an unparalleled experience for school planning, private tutoring, and test preparation. Every recommendation is specifically tailored to your family’s needs and your student’s profile. Everything is a choice. Everything is organized at will. Everything is modular.

Instruction and consulting efforts are curated to specifically meet your particular needs and parameters, and your privacy is of the utmost importance. We’re intentionally boutique so that every family has the opportunity to work directly with the Co-Founders, and any teaching effort has the benefit of a small teaching team to support planning and implementation. Collaboration with school professionals or other related service professionals with whom your family is working is always an option.

Related Posts

Admissions Consulting (PreK-12) and School Planning:

• Admissions Consulting and School Planning with Brad and Faya
• Educational Planning With A Multidisciplinary Team
• Progressive Education: Developing a Better Understanding
• Counseled Out From Private Schools
• Managing The Awkward Preschool Year
• Why Consider Boarding Schools?
• Boarding School: Fostering Independence
• Report Card Comments and Conferences: What do Parents Want to Know?

College Counseling:

• When To Begin College Planning Efforts (timeline overview, grades 7-12)
• What is a holistic review for college applications?
• Navigating Test-Optional Policies
• High School Seniors and the College Application Season
• An Overview of the College Application Process
• Setting Yourself Apart:  Common Application and College Essay Writing
• Start Your College Essays Early
• Building A Strong College Application
• The Importance of Pre-College Summer Programs
• Considering Transferring Colleges: When Is It The Right Decision?
• Considering Transferring Colleges For Academic Reasons

Tutoring and Executive Function Coaching:

• Understanding The Value Of Tutoring With My Learning Springboard
• A Different Tutoring Experience With My Learning Springboard
• A Master Teacher Can Really Make A Difference
• Tutoring As A Springboard To Achievement
• Short-Term Tutoring and Targeted Skill Building
• Improving Executive Function Skills
• Enhancing Metacognition and Executive Functions

Test Preparation:

• ISEE Test Preparation: Why And For How Long?
• The Best Approach to ISEE and SSAT Preparation
• Auditing Academic Skills: Leveraging the ISEE and SSAT
• SSAT and ISEE Test Preparation: Why And For How Long?
• Using ISEE and SSAT Preparation To Bolster Middle And High School Readiness
• ACT Overview
• Comparing the dSAT and ACT
• Why Should I Opt-In To The ACT Writing Section

Scheduling A Planning Meeting

Whatever your educational need or wonder may be, please don’t hesitate to contact us. An initial school planning meeting is usually the best way to get started. These meetings can be 30, 45, or 60 minutes by Zoom, by phone, or in person per a family’s preference. A single planning meeting allows us to talk more substantively about your family’s specific needs, priorities, and goals so that we can determine possible next steps. We’re committed to developing unique solutions for unique learners!

We look forward to hearing from you!

Warm regards,
Brad Hoffman and Faya Hoffman,
Co-Founders and Learning Concierges, My Learning Springboard