Welcome to RTC, home of mindful test prep & academic tutoring and *meaningful* student growth! Reach out - we'd love to help!
Customized, student-centered 1-2-1 virtual learning means students achieve 2-4 times the national average score gain on SAT/ACT. At RTC, Your child's future matters to us.® That means we will spend time getting to know your student and their needs first. We will listen to you and thoroughly assess your student before we design customized tutoring, because we know that's how instruction is *effecti
ve* and makes a difference in your child's learning and test scores! SAT & ACT Test Prep
We have made it our not-so-secret mission in life to beat the SAT and ACT. We also believe that test prep tutoring is really college prep tutoring, a way to help students not only see amazing score gains, but also develop skills that will make them successful in college and beyond. These skills include critical thinking and reading, strong organizational and study skills, persistence, self-advocacy, and self-care. We pride ourselves on getting to know our students and developing test prep programs that meet their individual needs. What's more, we address the mental game of test prep. We understand that test content, design, and strategies are not enough to be successful on Test Day; students must also be able to take a calm, confident, focused test to succeed. We are different than the big test prep companies in several key ways:
1. We will never sell you a cookie-cutter “package” of hours. All of our test prep programs are customized to your student’s needs based on our proprietary assessment and their personal score goal. First, we will meet with your student in a 90-minute interview to help them discover themselves as a test-taker, and which is their best test, SAT or ACT. Then, we collaboratively design a personalized test prep program with your student’s specific needs in mind.
2. All of our tutors are experienced professionals. Most test prep companies “turn and burn” tutors every few months. Your carefully selected, expert tutor is a member of RTC's team. They will invest in your child's success and will write progress notes for you after every lesson.
3. We address the mental game of test-taking with proven mind-body strategies that help students take their best test. A third of RTC's team are Mindfulness Coaches, and we understand the importance of performance coaching for elite test-taking. Our students learn proven strategies to take their best test on Test Day, no matter what happens in the testing room. In addition, RTC offers test prep in SSAT/ISEE/HSPT, as well as GMAT/GRE. College Application Essays
Our college application essay tutors are pros in the field. Our tutors bring years of teaching experience to writing tutoring. They can help your student with all aspects of the writing process, from wherever they are starting: idea generation, outlining, writing, revising, editing, and proofreading. We’ll help your student create a unique essay that reflects their authentic voice. If you would like your student to develop their writing skills for college as part of tutoring, please let us know! Academic Tutoring
If your student needs additional help in any subject area, because they are struggling or because they wish to boost a specific grade, we have the support they need. RTC offers empathetic, helpful tutors who are specialists in K-12 subjects. We also offer support for many college subjects, as well as college and graduate writing. If your student has special needs and requires support to develop study or executive functioning skills, we can offer kind, firm, consistent support and reinforcement. Every young person has a beautiful mosaic of needs. Every need is a lesson and a challenge we can teach them to harness toward growth. At RTC, a child's "special" needs are simply a piece of a that child's mosaic. RTC works with students who want to succeed, even if they may not believe they can. Any student — at whatever level — can improve at school or see gains on college entrance exams with hard work. We’re excited to work with students who are excited to learn! We are a nationwide company and offer all of our services virtually. We understand that 1-2-1 tutoring is connected and impactful, and our results have proven it. https://russelltutoringandconsulting.com/our-score-gains/
For more information, we invite you to visit our website!
04/13/2026
This morning, I received an unexpected email from home school instructor Ms. Mia and her students. During their discussion and research of financial aid, they found RTC's FAQs & Resources for Test Prep valuable -- woot!🎉🎉🎉
Mia told me that one of her students had found another great resource page. "To encourage R's creativity, I suggested sharing the article with you. We would be thrilled if you consider adding it to your page, even temporarily. R would be incredibly proud to see his research valued by a platform he admires."
Don't you freakin' love this? Now live on our FAQs: "FAFSA Made Simple" -- thanks, R and Ms. Mia's class!🌻
Food for thought….and I contributed to this OpEd. 🌻
Change the Game and the Name of 'College Admissions'
Most high school seniors and their parents currently have college at the top of mind. Early application deadlines are approaching, and students are frantically writing their application essays. But it
09/04/2025
Today, I met with a mother and daughter and reflected to them all the things I had learned about the kiddo as a test-taker in our unique assessment process.
Kiddo struggles a lot with test stress, and it affects her both physically and in her cognitive processing. She really suffers, and we talked a lot about how we can both help test-taking feel better and also help her be more successful in both school and on the ACT!
Mom was really excited about this. She told me that "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree: you could have been describing me." Mom told me that she struggled in school and has been through many struggles in her own professional life because her stress signals were never addressed and ameliorated.
We even talked about how we could help Mom now, despite the fact that she's received years of executive leadership and performance coaching -- isn't that exciting?🔥
Days like this are when I most love my job: when a parent deeply understands the value of my work and how we can resource their student to success, and when they are willing to invest in that process. The kiddo is all-in -- she wants to feel better and more successful in test-taking. 🎉
As I looked at her open, hopeful face, I thought, "Just you wait. Stress energy just shows you this test is important to you, and when you can harness that energy for your *achievement*? Holy hell, child -- you could be superhero unstoppable!"😎🦹♀️
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06/24/2025
TMW when that student who used to struggle mightily with calm in performance situations scores a perfect 36 on their June ACT -- English 36, Math 36, Reading 36, Science 35. 🥳🥳🥳🥳
Evidence-based performance skills work!💪
Being prepared for the test matters. Calm, confident, focused and resilient test-taking matters when Test Day arrives. Can your test-taker execute their best test on Test Day? We can help!🌻
Registration for the 2025-26 ACT is OPEN -- get those September seats now! 🌻
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06/06/2025
I just finished my last SAT Performance Coaching lesson at midnight (32 hours before the test)🙃with a sweet and sensitive kiddo who’s going for an elite score. I talked them down from doing frantic, last-minute prep: instead, they’ll prioritize rest, nutrition, calm, and focus for Test Day Saturday. I’m so excited for them to show the test makers how ready for college they are!💪
When we finished our lesson, they said the kindest words: “Thank you so much for giving especially this kind of advice, because I feel like not a lot of people really think about the physical and mental aspect of taking a test; that’s oftentimes neglected. You've given me some very helpful tools.💪
"And – this isn't even like the physical and mental portion – but doing the Math section backwards! That was great advice, because I would have never thought of that on my own. And it helped so much. So I really appreciate that.”🙏🎉
Does your student need expert test prep tutoring and evidence-based mind-body skills to succeed in SAT or ACT? We’d be so happy to help!🌻
04/07/2025
Tonight, our RTC Houston team met for a family dinner before a week of collaboration. I’m so blessed to work with these amazing folks! 🙏🌻
03/22/2025
With the brilliant design help of the creative team at Hive 180, RTC debuts our new website! 🎉I’m so excited by how our new communication tool will help us reach more families who need us.🌻
Welcome to Russell Tutoring! - Russell Tutoring
We’re so glad you’re here! We specialize in mindful SAT and ACT test prep, where your student will see real gains on the test. Our students achieve four times the national average score gain in SAT and ACT test prep. We believe test prep is college-readiness prep: RTC students sharpen their col....
03/04/2025
Is your high school senior a "word nerd"? There's a college scholarship for that! We at the National Test Prep Association are proud to offer the Jeanne Lucas Memorial Scholarship to multiple graduates every year. Graduating lexophiles, now you have a chance to WIN $$$ for your passion for language, so get to writing!✍️💲🌻
02/25/2025
Check this out: my amazing cohort at the National Test Prep Association keeps their eyes on the pulse of college admissions -- and what "test optional" *really* means....We know that ACT and SAT are the best-researched predictors of college success, and so do universities like USC.🌻
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