Our flagship course combines 35 years of experience with expert instruction and the highest attention to detail. This class helps students master reading comprehension, develop a robust vocabulary, and write effective essays.

The course teaches in-depth advanced writing techniques when students actively draft, edit, and revise work that can be submitted to writing competitions. Instructors will help students break down the writing process step-by-step and work through each section of a successful submission, focusing on introductions, body paragraphs, and conclusions and improving style, voice, tone, syntax, and diction. Students will learn a number of different writing genres and styles, from creative to nonfiction to analytical work.

By learning effective rhetoric, body language, voice, and tone, students will gain the skills needed to express themselves in front of different audiences. The advanced class students will also be trained to compete in public speaking tournaments. Our students won the third place, top eight and semifinalist award in the Texas State Middle School Speech Tournament. 

Learn and practice competitive debate skills with coaches who have trained our students to win the LD NSDA National Champ, LD and PF Texas State Championship , as well as PF and LD semi- and quarter-finalists in numerous national competitions. We put our best effort in every student.

Designed for high school students taking challenging English classes, this program helps them improve their skills and grades by addressing their areas of weakness in a micro-class setting.

(Rising 11th and 12th)

Two years ago, Instructor Ms. A was accepted into Harvard, Stanford, UPenn, Columbia, Bown, Dartmouth, Cornell and UChicago. Now she has a passion to help high school students to reach for their dream colleges. She frequently hosts college application writing workshops to help high school students for their college application.

College application essay writing can be an overwhelming experience for many students. The stakes can be high, but it is not always straightforward nor comfortable for students to write about themselves. Many students don’t know the underlying meaning of prompts and have puzzles with where to begin or how to develop a topic or topics to write about. Others know what story they want to tell but don’t know how to organize their narrative. This workshop will help students:

1. understand and analyze Common Application essay prompts
2. brainstorm essay topic(s)
3. select an essay topic and generate a narrative with details and a description
4. explore organizational choices
5. give and receive developmental feedback

(include a complimentary mock interview practice and the guidelines on how to get effective teacher recommendation letters) ISEE upper (applying 9th grade and up) and lower (applying 5th and 6th grade) courses are for students who want to keep their ISEE skills sharp before heading to this important private high school entrance exam. It is designed to prepare students for the exam's verbal reasoning, quantitative, reading comprehension, mathematics achievement, and essay sections.