New York City Metro Area

New York City Faculty My Learning Springboard's faculty is comprised of top-notch educators at every level from private, public, and charter schools as well as colleges, universities, and subject matter experts in their respective industries. Our faculty is based in the NYC metro area, including parts of Westchester and Long Island. Other locations include Washington, DC metro area, Northwest DC, Bethesda, Chevy Chase, Potomac, and Rockville, Maryland; and Palm Beach County, Florida, including Boca Raton, Delray Beach, and Palm Beach. We are available for consultation, virtual tutoring and distance learning beyond these areas as well.

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.

Zachary Brewer

April 15, 2016

Zachary Brewer is a private tutor specializing in elementary and middle school math, writing for all ages, and technology. With over 15 years of experience in education, he brings a hands-on, interdisciplinary approach to tutoring that helps students connect core academic skills to creative, real-world applications. Zach is also a coder and curriculum designer with a growing focus on generative AI. He is currently developing instructional materials on prompt engineering and exploring how to teach students to use AI tools for research, creative work, and strategic planning.

Zach currently teaches 4th grade math at Harlem Children’s Zone Promise Academy II, a role that blends his passion for rigorous academics with his commitment to educational equity. Prior to this, he served for over a decade as the Educational Technology Specialist at Corlears School, an independent elementary school in New York City. There, he designed and implemented a comprehensive PreK–5 technology curriculum that integrated digital literacy and creative problem-solving into every subject. His students explored math by programming interactive art, studied science through animation projects, and developed writing and storytelling skills by producing their own short films.

Earlier in his career, Zach worked as a math enrichment teacher at P.S. 85 in the Bronx, where he created Math Art, a visual, project-based curriculum for grades 2–4. The activities in Math Art helped students build fluency with key math concepts while also nurturing creativity and confidence. Zach later self-published the curriculum as a book, which has sold over 6,000 copies and is used by teachers around the country.

Outside the classroom, Zach enjoys hiking and camping, photography, and playing 1960s and ’70s pop songs on the piano.

Charlotte Kent

April 15, 2016

Raised in a diplomatic family, Charlotte Kent wandered across Europe with her parents, becoming fluent in French while attending the Lyçée Français, before settling in the United States to attend boarding school at Philips Academy Andover. She then pursued a “great books” education, receiving her BA in Philosophy and the History of Math in 2002 at St. John’s College in Santa Fe, NM. She worked for an art school and then ran the education division of a medical publishing company in New York before returning to graduate school in 2009. While pursuing her graduate work, she was a Fellow at The Writer’s Institute, working under Leo Carey (The New Yorker), John Freeman (Freeman, formerly of Granta), among others. She has written for both academic and general audience journals and magazines. In 2014, Charlotte completed a PhD in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center on contemporary experiments in art writing.

Charlotte Kent, PhD, has taught at New York University, the School for Visual Arts, Mercy College, as well as CUNY’s The City College of New York and Baruch College. As a private tutor, she has worked with high schools students from around the world and across the NYC area through the college application essay and across diverse subjects, including all levels of French. Most of her work focuses on helping students improve their reading comprehension and critical writing across all subjects in preparation for papers, exams, standardized tests, and applications. Beyond her work tutoring in-person, Charlotte has worked via Skype and other collaborative tools with students who live abroad, move, or travel frequently with their families.

Bill Army

October 10, 2015

Bill Army made his professional theatrical debut at the age of nineteen. After graduating from Middlebury College with a Bachelor of Arts in English and Theatre, Bill matriculated to the Tisch Graduate Acting Program at New York University obtaining a Master of Fine Arts in Acting. At Tisch, he had the opportunity to work with Tony-Award and Pulitzer-Prize-Winning Playwright and Screenwriter, Tony Kushner on the world premiere of his play, Henry Box Brown directed by Mark Wing Davey.

Bill has performed in several successful and critically-acclaimed plays musicals, and revues. On Broadway, he has originated roles in Relatively Speaking three one-act plays written by Ethan Coen, Elaine May, and Woody Allen, directed by John Turturro, Act One at Lincoln Center Theater written and directed by James Lapine. and The Band’s Visit (Winner of Ten Tony Awards including “Best New Musical,” The Grammy Award for “Best Musical Theater Album,” and the Daytime Emmy Award for “Outstanding Musical Performance in a Daytime Program”) written by Itamar Moses, David Yazbek, and directed by David Cromer. Off-Broadway, he has performed with The Public Theater, The Atlantic Theater Company, Red Bull Theater, and in the hit revue Old Jews Telling Jokes at the Westside Theater directed by Marc Bruni. Bill was a company member of the Off-off Broadway company the Potomac Theatre Project for eighteen years, performing most notably in Lunch by Steven Berkoff, Scenes from an Execution, No End of Blame, and The Europeans by Howard Barker and Vinegar Tom by Caryl Churchill. Regionally, Bill has worked with The Westport Country Playhouse, George Street Playhouse, Olney Theater Center, and The National Players. His Film/TV credits include appearances in “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” “Deadbeat,” and the web series “COHAB.”

In 2022, Bill founded the nonprofit site-specific theatre company, Sketchbook Theatre, Inc whose mission is to break conventional perceptions and expectations of what it means to experience live performance, while serving a wide range of communities. In 2023, he produced the inaugural season of Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard at a townhouse space on the Upper West Side called, The Lethe Lounge and at Tydeman Farm in Germantown, New York.

In addition to Acting and Producing, Bill has emceed the 2013 Drama Desk Awards, Broadway in Bryant Park, and the Manhattan Theatre Club Gala. He has written and adapted plays and musicals, the book of his original musical “The Family Business” was selected as a Semi-Finalist for the National Music Theater Conference at the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center.

Bill has taught Text and Musical Theatre at the LaGuardia High School for the performing Arts, where he has co-directed three shows. He has also taught acting and directed at Middlebury College. In addition to his classroom teaching work at LaGuardia, Bill also works with students as a private acting/audition coach.

Matthew Serra

August 29, 2015

Matthew Serra

Matthew Serra is a private tutor, former Spanish teacher, ethnomusicologist, audio engineer, and flamenco guitarist. Matthew currently resides in Sevilla, Spain, where he studies flamenco guitar at Artes Escénicas Rebollar, a premier flamenco academy. He holds a Master of Arts in Music from Durham University, from which he graduated with distinction, and a Master of Arts in Teaching from the University of Pittsburgh. Matthew also holds Bachelor’s degrees in Music and Spanish (summa cum laude, Allegheny College), and Music Technology (City College, CUNY). Matthew has carried out research projects on the relationship between flamenco performers’ identity and personal style, flamenco’s cultural/musical/literary heritage, and the effects of specific reinforcement schema on target language use and motivation in the foreign language classroom.

Matthew loves the opportunity to work directly with students of all ages and levels. He is enthusiastic about using the tutoring relationship as a medium for helping students to become the versions of themselves they most want to be. Matthew is experienced in teaching Spanish, English, executive function coaching (organizational and study skills), test preparation, creative writing, and even guitar, but he is also passionate about teaching math, science, language arts, and elementary education. Matthew has also worked with students on the autism spectrum as a therapeutic staff support and volunteered in a children’s grief support group. Matthew believes that learning can be fun, teaching should be engaging, and every subject has significance. He is an incredibly creative and engaging teacher who loves to teach through both traditional and immersive methods.

In his free time, Matthew enjoys studying flamenco, composing music, listening to psychology podcasts, reading in Spanish and French, and spending time outdoors.

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