Including you. Including this. One-on-one tutoring in math, science, economics and test prep, from ninth grade through university.
No charge for the first conversation, and no obligation after it.
How I teach
Plenty of tutors will take your money for as long as you keep paying. I'd rather tell you the truth and lose the booking.
I won't pretend to know a subject I don't, and I won't keep a student who isn't getting anywhere with me. If the fit is wrong I'll say so early and help you find someone better. Wasting your money and your time isn't a business model I'm interested in.
However badly school has gone so far, I don't hold it against you. I've worked around ADHD and dysgraphia, and through illness and loss in my own family, and what carried me was refusing to treat any of it as the end of the story. I'll hold you to the same standard and stay with you while you meet it.
I'm not here to get you a B+ and disappear. Go walk on the moon. Design a drug nobody has managed to make yet. Find a receptor that isn't in the textbook. Understanding the material is where that starts, not where it ends.
Subjects
This list is deliberately finite. If what you need isn't on it, ask me anyway and I'll tell you honestly whether I can help.
Getting started
Twenty minutes. You tell me what's going wrong; I tell you whether I'm the right person to fix it.
We find the actual gap. It's usually a year or two further back than the chapter you're stuck on.
Goals tied to your exam, grade or course, so we both know whether this is working.
We review progress honestly as we go. If you stop needing me, that's the point.
About
I study civil engineering and public policy, with research in infrastructure policy and governance. Most of my week goes on how roads, water systems and public budgets actually work — which turns out to be useful in a tutoring session, because it means I can usually answer the question underneath the question: what is this for?
I teach the way I needed to be taught. I have ADHD and dysgraphia, so I know what it's like to understand an idea completely and still hand in a page that doesn't show it. I know what it's like to keep studying while things at home are falling apart. None of that is a reason to lower the bar — it's a reason to find a route to it that fits the student in front of me.
Learn it properly, then go do something enormous with it.
The first conversation is free and there's no obligation after it. If I'm not the right tutor for what you need, I'll say so and point you somewhere better.
Sessions
These are the places I like to work in around DFW — quiet enough to think, open late enough to be useful. Libraries are free and have study rooms; the coffee shops all have room to spread out a textbook. I also tutor at your home if you'd prefer that.
Coffee shop Library · positions are approximate, tap any spot for directions
Nothing matches that. Try a city name like Plano or Frisco.
Online sessions aren't a worse version of sitting at a table — with the right setup they're often clearer, because every step stays on screen instead of disappearing off the side of a page.
No software to install and nothing to pay for — you click a link and we're working.
I write by hand on an iPad and you watch it appear live, so you see the working build up step by step rather than a finished answer.
The same calculator you'll have in the exam, on screen, so I can show you the exact keystrokes instead of describing them.
When a function is easier to understand by moving it, we move it — and watch what changes.
For the ideas that only click once you can see them — distributions, fields, iterative methods, anything that moves.
If a student works better with someone physically next to them, I'll come to you. Some do, and that's fine.
Who I work with
The work looks different at every stage. Here's what I actually do at each one, so you can tell whether it's what you need.
Almost every student who falls apart in eleventh grade does it because of something they never quite got in ninth. Algebra I and II, geometry, first-year physics and chemistry — this is the stage where a gap costs a week to close instead of a year.
Calculus, AP Physics, AP Chemistry, micro and macro — usually several at once, usually alongside test dates and applications. Most of what I do here is triage: working out what needs deep understanding and what only needs to be survived.
AP and IB don't just test whether you know the material — they test whether you can present it the way the rubric expects. Plenty of students who understand the physics lose the points in the free response.
We start with a full diagnostic, because "I'm bad at the math section" is rarely the real problem — it's usually two or three specific question types and running out of time. Then we work backwards from your test date.
I'm a university student myself, so I'm working through these courses now rather than remembering them from years ago. That means I know what current problem sets and lecture notes look like, not what they looked like a decade back.
Younger than ninth grade, or a subject that isn't on my list? Ask me anyway. If I'm not the right person I'll say so on the first call and try to point you toward someone who is — that's the whole point of the free consultation.
Subjects