Brad Hoffman, Alumni Award Winner, Is Transforming Education

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.—Brad Hoffman ’99 EK ED has spent his entire professional life teaching. From impressionable elementary school students to entrenched Fortune 500 executives, Hoffman has instructed across the learning spectrum.

Hoffman is currently the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of My Learning Springboard, Inc., which he launched with his wife, Faya Gene Hoffman, in 2009. My Learning Springboard, Inc. is a comprehensive multidisciplinary educational consulting company and learning concierge® service having a transformational impact on the field.

Read the complete article by Andy Elder in the Penn State College of Education Magazine.
Originally posted June 2014.

Help Kids Learn Outside the Classroom

Whether they are just starting school or in their senior year, your kids’ first–and most important–teacher will always be you. What’s the most valuable lesson Professor Mom can impart? Learning is fun. By encouraging kids’ natural curiosity, modeling your own love of learning and making the real world their classroom, you help them nail down the traditional three R’s as well as important life skills such as time and money management–all the while giving them confidence in their own abilities. ALL You Magazine – Special Issue – August 2012 (download full article.)

 

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Custom Tutoring and a “Learning Concierge?” Yes, with My Learning Springboard

With a catchy logo that includes the words “Unique Solutions for Unique Learners,” one might wonder if in a city like New York, there could possibly be anything new, innovative, or exciting. Where it would seem like there is a plethora of resources, and everything has already been invented and reinvented over and over, what could be new in the world of educational services?

Well, it just might be that something new in private tutoring has, in fact, been invented, and served up in a complete, one-stop website called My Learning Springboard. With both undergraduate and graduate degrees in Education, Brad Hoffman has brought his passion for teaching and serving students of all ages to the metropolitan New York area (as well as Southeast Florida and Washington, D.C.) in the form of his unique tutoring service.

The full article was originally posted to Examiner.com on April 1, 2011.

Best Specialty Tutors

Finding someone to assist with straightforward math or reading problems isn’t that difficult, but for more specialized support, many parents swear by My Learning Springboard, a network of tutors with a notably wide range of expertise. In addition to standard SAT prepping and curriculum assistance, offerings include bar mitzvah cramming sessions, weekend art appreciation, and teaching 11-year-olds how to balance a bank account. The company was founded in 2009 by Brad Hoffman, an experienced teacher who’s taught everyone from first-graders to Fortune 500 executives. He’s assembled a diverse team of instructors, each with a specific field of expertise, and subspecialists for kids with learning disabilities and autism.

Read the original article in New York Magazine.
Originally posted March 2011.