How Tutoring Can Help High School Students with College Course Placement
The transition from high school to college marks a significant milestone in a student’s academic...Read More
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Our Services
Alliance Tutoring offers academic coaching and tutoring for teens and young adults: in the transition to private school, into college, or in the time between schools. Alliance provides the following services:
Maximum Flexibility
At Alliance Tutoring Plus, we aim to instruct students in the method most conducive to their success. Our services offer unique flexibility to ease academic and test-taking strains. You can choose any or a combination of the below methods to best suit your student needs.
Local
In-person Tutoring & Coaching Service
Remote
On-demand remote tutoring
In-Home
In-home Tutoring & Coaching service
Virtual Reality
360 degree immersive learning environment
OUR ONLINE COURSES
How to Get Your Kids Into College & Keep Them There: A Guide to College Admissions and Retention in a Post-Covid World Kindle Edition
A progressive and thoughtful look at the pathways and best practices needed to successful help kids get (and stay) in college during the uncertain post-pandemic times.
Alliance Tutoring provides In person Liaison Service with Students in IOP
Two organizations team up to assist recovery and transition for students fallen off the path!
Alliance Tutoring, an organization devoted to transitional tutoring works closely with The Anxiety Institute of Greenwich, providing outpatient service to teens and young adults suffering from anxiety and anxiety related disorders. Alliance works with those out of school or between schools, providing high level academic tutoring and coaching. In its liaison service with The Anxiety Institute, Alliance tutors alongside the therapists in providing superior tutoring and coaching services.
FOUNDER
ALEXANDER W. MERRILL
Alexander has taught English, coached, and dorm-parented for nearly 20 years at Dartmouth College, The King School, Kingswood-Oxford, Philips Andover and The Taft School. He is an expert at the college application process, including college essay writing, standardized test preparation, and the recommendation process. He has tutored hundreds of adolescent teens and young adults from middle school through college level on all spectrums, behaviorally and academically. He attended Philips Exeter Academy and received an undergrad degree from Kenyon College and a Masters Degree from Dartmouth College. He lives in Middlebury, CT with his three rug rats and wife, Alexa.
Some of Our
Tutors
“ Rene is an expert at diagnosing and applying strategies for IEPS & 504s for students with ADHD/ADD. In addition to her traditional Masters’ Degree in Education from San Diego, she has trained through the Sylvan Learning Center, Southfield Center for Development and The Anxiety Institute as an Executive Function Skills specialist. She teaches learners with alternative learning profiles to apply organization, time management, planning, initiation, and study skills... ”
“ With an undergraduate degree from Johns Hopkins and a PhD from Yale in Biomedical Engineering, Archer has brought a powerful intellect to bear in tutoring students with anxiety and anxiety-related conditions over the course of his 15 years in specialized tutoring. He has trained through “The Anxiety Institute of Greenwich” and “Ready Learner One” as an VR certified anxiety instructor. In addition to tutoring, Archer is also an adjunct instructor at SSCU, and teaches... ”
“ In addition to her traditional education consisting of a Masters’ Degree in education and undergraduate from Smith College in English Literature, Kristin offers a wealth of training and experience in alternative learners. She has trained in the Wilson Reading System, is a certified Orton-Gillingham Practitioner, and is a certified instructor in special education in both Connecticut and New York. She has taught at the Pinnacle School... ”
“ Stephen earned an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and French and a Masters in Ancient Philosophy from University of Oxford before devoting his life to teaching and mentoring struggling students from middle school through college levels and has become internationally renowned for his work in rescuing lost souls. In addition to his formal education at Oxford, he has received formal education in mental health support from Pembroke College... ”
“ Michelle’s impressive academic credentials include an undergraduate degree from Brown in Astrophysics, a Mastersat Indiana University at the prestigious US Particle Accelerator School, and a Masters Degree from the University of Chicago in Computational Neuroscience. Though a specialist in advanced Physics tutoring through a graduate level in her 8 years of tutoring experience, she has tutored all STEM subjects through graduate level in subjects ranging from Quantum Mechanics toAstronomy... ”
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Alliance Tutoring Plus
Alliance Tutoring specializes in assisting students from adolescence to young adulthood who find themselves in the space between: between schools, between high school and college, or between life paths. We also focus on those who have departed from their academic and/or life tracks, whether due to trauma, learning disability, perfectionism, health, or any of the other myriad issues that derail the young.