Our instructors have a track record that has proven real care and investment in their students.
| Stephen Heiner |
| *Premier Level Tutor* |
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One-on-one Private Tutoring, ACT Build-Your-Own Courses
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Stephen Heiner has been tutoring since 1996 and is the only SAT/ACT tutor in the Midwest to be interviewed about test prep and college counseling on television (KCTV, KSHB), radio (KCTE 1510 and KCUR 89.3) and in print (Kansas City Star, 435 South, Ingram's, Kansas City Small Business Journal, Kansas City Business Magazine, Johnson County Gazette). He has personally developed and trained a posse of instructors at Get Smarter Prep who share his passion for teaching and consistently obtain score increases for their students.
When he’s not busy trying to take over the world or get his students into the colleges of their choice, Stephen is busy as a writer, interviewer, and skier. He has been published in both secular and religious periodicals and runs a small publishing house.
Stephen spent two years in the New Hampshire woods at a small, awesome, nerdy, liberal arts institution called Thomas More College. He studied abroad in Rome, where he delighted at being 15 minutes walking distance from the Vatican. He eventually finished his Bachelor of Arts in English Literature, with minors in Catholic Studies and Business, at Rockhurst University. He also spent 4 years in the US Marine Corps Reserve as a Nuclear Biological and Chemical Defense specialist.
Stephen is still actively involved in college student groups. In 2008, he served as the Intercollegiate Studies Institute's Great Plains' Region Student Ambassador. He was elected the 2009-2010 Student Representative for the Midwestern Region for Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honor Society. He just finished serving as the 2010 Chancellor for the Nu Omega Chapter of Delta Sigma Pi, the International Business Fraternity.
In the remaining time he has left to him apart from the activities listed above, apart from sleeping and eating (when he can and when he remembers, respectively), Stephen is pursuing his Masters in Business Administration at Saint Louis University.
Stephen is available for tutoring in St. Louis on Mondays and Tuesdays, from 4-9pm; in Kansas City on Wednesdays and Thursdays from 6-9pm and all day Saturdays. Stephen does not tutor on Sundays. |
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| Emily Platt |
| *Standard Level Tutor* |
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ACT Classroom Courses (20 hours), SAT Classroom Courses (20 hours)
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Emily Platt has been tutoring at Lindenwood University in upper-level philosophy and history classes since 2008. Born and raised in West County, St. Louis, Emily graduated from Eureka High School in 2007 before making the sojourn to the far-away land of St. Charles to attend Lindenwood University. Starting as a history major, she was soon duped by the philosophy and religion departments into pursuing two more of those “live in a cardboard box when she grows up” degrees. She plans to study abroad in Caen, France in Spring 2011 and will graduate with a BA in Philosophy, History, and Religion in May of that year.
A St. Louis girl at heart, Emily enjoys Steinberg in the winter, Shakespeare in the Park in the spring, The Muny in the summer, Tower Grove in the fall, and Imo’s pizza all year round. At parties, you’ll find her in a corner debating about something really nerdy, and it would be next to impossible to convince her that the Cardinals were not slated to win the World Series in any given year.
Emily is available to tutor Monday-Wednesday from 3pm-9pm, Saturdays from 10am-5pm, and Sundays from 2pm-9pm. |
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| Lauren Thomson |
| Classroom Instructor |
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ACT Classroom Courses (20 hours), SAT Classroom Courses (20 hours)
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Lauren Thomson received her BA in Professional Writing this spring from Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO. She graduated from Marquette high school in the St. Louis area. A Masters in Counseling will be her next educational endeavor. Lauren picked up a knack for teaching when she spent a month in China as an English teacher to Chinese-speaking middle-schoolers. Since then, she has been drawn to educating others - though teaching full-time would exhaust her.
If it were possible, a bike would be Lauren's only mode of transportation. In her free time she enjoys reading, cooking, playing Bananagrams, being an amateur runner, volunteering as a tutor to elementary school children, and sipping coffee.
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