Bruce is an Academic Interventionist with experience tutoring in all subjects. He specializes in teaching comprehension, reading, writing, math, application essays, study skills, test prep (SSAT, ISEE, SAT, GRE), remedial literacy development, literary analysis, executive functioning skills and research methods. He has extensive experience with students diagnosed with ADD/ADHD, autism, dyslexia/dysgraphia, oppositional defiant disorder, traumatic brain injuries, and auditory processing disorders. 

Bruce has a BA in Secondary English Education from Boston University and a Masters in Educational Public Policy from UMass Dartmouth. He has extensive experience with Lindamood-Bell processes, having worked as a Clinician, Consultant, and Site Manager for the Company for the past six years. His students have ranged from five years old to adulthood with initial abilities ranging from non-verbal non-readers to high honors students at prestigious private schools.

Bruce seeks to engage students in their areas of comfort and utilize these strengths to help situate new knowledge and motivate students to persevere through frustration and disinterest. He has been known to share his own struggles within the education system, helping students understand that the problems they face can be overcome. Bruce is adept at meeting students where they are and is equally at ease providing a calm, warm environment, or acting out scenes to build comprehension. He is consistently seeking to build self-efficacy and independence within his students. Bruce places on mindful metacognition, a skill he hones via Zen meditation.

As a New England native, Bruce spends as much time as he can backpacking and camping in the vast western wilderness. When unable to get out, he can be found writing educational philosophy or reading poetry.

“Bruce has been an amazing tutor with my son who has Dyslexia. After trying many other tutors over the years we found Bruce to be skilled with his knowledge of how to work with Dyslexic kids and has a strong under and compassion for kids who learn differently. My son's confidence as a learner has grown leaps and bounds since he started working with Bruce about 3 years ago.” - Parent

“Bruce is by far the best tutor/teacher [my son] has experienced in his 9.5 years. He understands [my son’s] learning needs/challenges and he is able to bring the best out of him by being fun, warm, and yet assertive. Thank you so much, Bruce!!” - Parent

“This young man connected with my daughter and awakened her skills through his boundless creativity, humor, intellect, empathy, compassion, expertise, and plain old hard work” - Parent, Adult Student with Traumatic Brain Injury. Bruce helped her regain the ability to speak as well as read.

"Amazing with kids - relates well and adapts to the child. Creative in how he approaches the kids and their learning styles. Makes what he is doing very interesting." - Parent

"Bruce is great. He is very calm, patient, and effective in his sessions. My 8-year-old son has improved already after a few sessions with Bruce. My son is already more confident in his reading and is learning skills that he was never exposed to. Bruce has also helped my older son study for his SSAT test and he was excellent. He is a great teacher and really knows how to teach kids in different areas and at different stages." - Parent

"We could not be happier with Bruce. His calm, gentle, kind way with [my daughter] was perfect. She was relaxed and actually had fun learning math and preparing for the SSAT with him. Thank you, Bruce!!" - Parent