As a parent of two daughters who have benefited from Ann's teaching, I highly recommend Ann to those parents who want to focus on improving their children's ability to write and read.   Ann taught our older daughter from when she was in middle school through high school. She achieved excellent grades in English. Now she is in college. On many occasions, she received high praises and marks from her professors for the essays in various humanities courses. Once she got a perfect score in Advanced Writing course, which the professor never believed in perfect score in an essay before. Since we moved to Long Island, New York a few years ago, we had been looking for a tutor like Ann for our younger daughter. But we couldn't find any good teacher like Ann. We contacted Ann after long search and fortunately she offered tutoring over Skype. We were so pleased with the outcome we got with our older daughter, we didn't hesitate to enlist her help with our younger daughter.  Our younger daughter, 10th grader has been learning over Skype for 10 months. She learns to read more complex texts and expands her vocabulary. We have noticed significant improvements in mindset for approaching and organizing essays. She is steadily improving and can carry herself with more confidence and excels her writing skills and reading comprehension not only in English also in other classes such as history, marketing, research and writing science lab reports.  We are impressed by Ann's teaching method. She reviews and tests new vocabularies, practice critical reading, edit homework essay and check grammar sheets within one hour tutoring session. Also she is very kind and supportive, which makes learnings from her more enjoyable and effective. Her teaching method is superb and well organized. We are always thankful for Ann's wonderful teaching after lesson every week. read more

Customer Service really sucks here. I contacted IYE regarding their college counseling services. it's been days and no one replies. I"d really appreciate it if they'd respond to my request. By all means, AVOID THIS PLACE !! read more

My daughter is an avid reader. She really enjoyed having Dr. Wilson for 3 years during high school. This is after she had tried 3 other private tutors. My daughter does not have a shortage of ideas, but organizing her ideas into a powerful essay can be a challenge. Dr. Wilson was very patient, asking clarifying questions and leading my daughter to think critically to focus on her thesis, to organize her thoughts and to produce great essays. As parents, we love to see how well my daughter responded to Dr. Wilson's teaching method and her artful integration of many historic events into teaching English writing. My daughter has received A's in her honors English and AP English classes. We trust Dr. Wilson so much that we made special requests to Dr. Wilson to proofread my daughter's college application essays as well as post-graduate application essays! Dr. Wilson is the best English tutor we've had and we highly recommend her. read more

If I could zero star I would, the gentlemen who sits in front desk is extremely rude and condescending. I could sense an attitude that reeks of contempt. Sending your kid here might improve the English but demoralize the spirit and self worth, watch out especially if you are an immigrant. You do not want your kid anywhere near such rude and condescending establishment. Responding to your comment: I do not want to get in to the details of how rudely you asked me to wait in the corridor for 20 mins only to come out and give me a lecture on punctuality. If you as an establishment does not know how to treat parents in front of their kids, and are rude and condescending (again your response exhibits the same boorish behavior) then I do not want my kids to be around you. If I was training my kids to be clerks you would be a prefect fit. read more

Teresa was my tutor and she's fantastic! I don't know what more to say! She worked with me on areas where I needed work and worked them at my pace. Overall, I had a great experience. I highly recommend this place! read more

We have been with this establishment for a few months now and we have been overall happy with the tutoring. My 13 yr old son has David as his tutor and he has been very patient. My lazy son initially hated coming here and only did 50% of the homework most of the time. There was a time when I felt like I was flushing money down the drain. I don't know what David said to him but his attitude slowly started to change. David noticed my son didn't have confidence with his reading and has been training him to project his voice. David is genuinely interested in tutoring and it shows. My daughter has Judy as her tutor. Judy has been very professional and supportive of my daughter's progress. We've been getting positive feedback from our English teacher at school so whatever Judy has been doing, it's working. What I like about this business is that the tutors are knowledgeable. They have a set curriculum on how to help students understand literature, make annotations, and write an analysis. read more

We have been with IYE for over an year and my son is been tutored by Daniel. We value the credential and experiences the tutors they hire, not just higher schoolers at other center. The owner, Nat really puts a lot of efforts to offer different kinds of seminars, workshops, parent conferences and camps to help each students. I'm really happy with their services and see improvements on my son's writing. read more

My son recently started One-to-One tutoring at IYE with Dr. Wilson. The well designed curriculum focus on language foundation building, targeting his need. Ever since he worked with Dr.Wilson, I notice he became more engaged in learning. He said "Dr. Wilson is patient, knowledgeable and straightforward with her teaching". We highly recommend this place. read more

Steve High is rude. He's upset of my honest review and sent me this message: "Thanks for thinking of us, L.H. I appreciate the opportunity to get your business. We realize that there are lots of tutors out there and hope you have good luck in finding one. And, yes, I was somewhat abrupt with you. We will, of course, make no changes win our policy and continue to invite customers to shop around if either we or they don't think the relationship will be fruitful." read more

All 3 of my girls are in high school. They started tutoring with Improve Your English (IYL) for the last 2-3 years. They have been super lucky to have gotten JEANNIE as a tutor. She is absolutely amazing! My neighbor told me about IYL and her son having used it. He did very well with his SAT and also college entry essays. I first signed up my oldest daughter with Jeannie. I wanted to sign up my younger ones - but Jeannie wasn't free at the times we needed. We tried another tutor at IYL but the connection wasn't there. So we waited a year for JEANNIE as we only wanted her. With my oldest daughter, she has read classics and is now moving towards non fiction. JEANNIE has also given her many non fiction pieces that have been very interesting and they have analyzed them together. Whenever I show my daughters writing to people, they are blown away. My daughter has learned a lot Ofcourse, but it is the connection and the relationship with JEANNIE that brings out the best in her. For my younger daughters - they have also shown tremendous growth. Again that relationship with a JEANNIE has been key. My daughters have never even once complained that they didn't want to do the class or do homework for the class. They do it by choice. They all do their classes on Skype which is very convenient. JEANNIE does vocabulary, grammar, punctuation, reading, writing and reading comprehension with all of my daughters. It is a comprehensive program which I love. HIGHLY RECOMMEND JEANNIE AT IMPROVE YOUR ENGLISH! read more

My daughter is a freshman in a private school. She has had Nat as an English tutor since last summer. He tutors her once a week for 90 minutes and assigns homework and quizzes weekly. At the beginning, my daughter could not prepare for a school test in under two hours, but now she can prepare well in an hour. Also, the quizzes that Nat gives are good training. My daughter now memorizes vocabulary well, and it helps her in school. My daughter is getting more confident in her schoolwork. Nat helps my daughter efficiently, and he also teaches her how to prepare for tests or any big assignments. I am glad to find this amazing tutor from Improve Your English. read more

I heard so many good things about "Improve Your English Tutoring Services" (IYE), especially Mr. Crawford over the years but never thought I would send my kid there as we live too far from the center. But in 2013, when my son started showing difficulty in writing at his English class, I called the center and inquired about private session with Mr. Crawford. I was told then by the scheduling manager Ms. Wang that Mr. Crawford had all been booked up, so I didn't pursue further and decided to send my son to a tutoring center nearby. I understand it takes time to improve one's writing skill, but after one and half years studying there, I don't see much improvement in my son's writing; he still struggled to come up with ideas and it took him way too long to write a complete piece. In February 2015, I decided to try again and emailed IYE for private session with Mr. Crawford. Much to my delight, I was told one space had just came up for Mr. Crawford. I didn't hesitate and took the only spot right away. What a difference it made in less than 3 months! My son, who used to dread going to writing class, now is eager for the weekly session. He really liked Mr. Crawford's teaching style and told me he "learned a lot and the long drive is really worth it!" Since he took the class, his vocabulary has increased dramatically and he can finish his writing assignment in a reasonable time frame, a big improvement after only 3 months of tutoring, thanks to Mr. Crawford's superb teaching skills! As a parent, I also appreciate the timely feedback from Mr. Crawford. I get emails right after each session about the assignment for the next week and completion status and quality of the work assigned the previous week. I am also impressed by the friendliness of the office staff, especially Rob, and the overall customer service of the office. My email inquiry was answered quickly and all my questions have been answered to my satisfaction. I highly recommend IYE to parents who want to see real results in their kids' English. read more

Our experience with IYE has been great, especially with Ms. Hillesland helping both of my middle school sons for last few years. She is very understanding about my sons' needs and addresses the important parts instead of going through everything without pausing. In elementary school, one of my sons never read any fiction books, but with Ms. Hillesland, he now reads a wider variety of books. Whenever my son comes across an issue with his grammar, Ms. Hillesland will always work extensively to find materials and practices for my son to learn. One of my sons added his own feedback: " Mrs. Hillesland is very flexible and understanding of her students' needs. If a student cannot make the class, he/she can set up an email lesson where the student emails the assignments and Mrs. Hillesland will correct it during the session time.The homework every week consists of a reading part, a writing part, grammar, and vocabulary. The reading assignment is always a story or book that stretches the student just enough. When the reading is hard, she makes sure that the student understands what happens in it and its themes. The writing assignments almost always consist of a summary of the assigned story or book chapter(s). If the student's summary doesn't flow well, she has the student use different sentence varieties. She helped correcting my habit of choppy sentences. The grammar teaching is from a diagramming book and extra grammar is included if necessary. The essay writing is mostly up to the student as to what to write about. As a professional fiction and nonfiction writer, Mrs. Hillesland can help any student in their writing." read more

Improve Your English has been very good for both my kids. A few years back, Nat helped my son receive a perfect score on the reading section of the SAT. That was a big help for getting him into the UC Berkeley EECS program. Recently, Nat was very helpful with an assignment in my daughter's AP English class. His explanations for how to improve writing are clear and concise. We have been very happy with Nat. read more

Strongly recommend IYE if your kids need English tutoring. We have been with IYE for more than 4 years now, and we are very happy with the results. All the tutors (Dr. Wilson and Ms. Anne in our case) are really knowledgeable and have helped my daughter immensely. read more

We are very lucky to have Ann Hillesland being my son's tutor for many years. Ann is very a patient teacher and provides very systematic training in vocabulary, grammar, reading and writing. Before taking the lesson from Ann, my son's SAT writing was below 500; last year, he scored 800. Now he is a National Merit Semifinalist, which is mostly determined by English skills. Ann also helped him in many other areas, such as U.S History and getting into top summer camps. I highly recommend IYE to parents and students. read more

Both my son and daughter have been taking lessons at Improve Your English for many years. Both have made great progress in reading and writing. They have received very systematic training in vocabulary, grammar, reading classics literature works, and building their writing skills. They're very lucky to have Nat Crawford being their tutor during the recent years. My daughter enjoys reading classics. Nat guides her to explore the English literature work by Shakespeare, Charles Dickens and other modern authors, and helps her to understand and analyze the characters and plots. She really enjoys working with Nat. My son, on the other hand, is kind of boy who is not very good at reading and writing. Nat helps him to improve his basic writing skills by practicing sentence variety exercise and doing many targeted writing practice, which prove to be effective. While my two kids are quite opposite in their reading and writing habits and skills, Nat is able to recognize their difference and apply different approaches to work with them individually. Both have learned a lot and been benefited from Nat's tutoring. I highly recommend their tutoring service. read more