Academic Approach
Connor Hanna has garnered significant experience in education and mentorship, currently serving as a Tutor at Academic Approach since August 2018. Prior to this role, Connor was an Americorps Member at Youth & Opportunity United from August 2015 to August 2018, where responsibilities included developing and facilitating diverse curricula for elementary students, providing academic support, managing program logistics, and co-chairing the AmeriCorps Member Committee. Earlier, Connor worked as a Student Assistant at the University of Chicago Press from July 2013 to June 2015, where tasks involved liaising with publishers and authors, organizing office tasks, and editing image files for academic publications. Connor holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in French Language and Literature from the University of Chicago, completed in 2015.
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Academic Approach
The idea for Academic Approach was born 13 years ago at Columbia University in New York City. While earning a PhD in English and teaching college freshmen in Columbia's core curriculum, I was at the same time tutoring New York City high school students for the standardized tests. I noticed an evident gap between the level of readiness my highschool students exhibited and the academic standards they would be expected to live up to on the college level.It occurred to me that the most meaningful way to offer test preparation was to create an academic curriculum that bridged these two levels of education, high school and college. Such a curriculum would allow me to use standardized tests in an innovative way: as a means to produce both better high school test takers and better college freshmen. We refer to this essential academic mission as "Teaching Beyond the TestTM."