Personalized academic coaching from a learning scientist and an International Math Olympiad coach. We turn struggling students into confident thinkers who finally understand how their own brain works, and how to use AI without letting it think for them.
You might be the parent of the kid who used to love learning and now slumps into the car after school and says nothing. You might be the parent of the strong student who is bored, or the high-achiever aiming for selective universities, or the kid who is doing fine in everything except one subject that has them stuck. You might be the parent who is watching your kid use AI as a shortcut and worried about what it is doing to their thinking.
Whatever brought you here, the work is the same. We figure out how your kid thinks, where they need help or where they want to push further, and we build the plan around that. Diagnosis first. Then the work.
Coaching built around how the whole student actually learns. Cognitive science, real subject expertise, and an honest read on what your kid actually needs.
Kevin is a learning scientist. Every plan is built on how the brain encodes, retrieves, and stores information, not on a generic worksheet pack.
Henry competed for Cambodia's International Math Olympiad team for two years and then coached the national team. There is no math problem he cannot break down.
We teach students when AI accelerates their thinking and when it hollows it out. Most kids are getting this wrong. The ones we coach are not.
The grade is the byproduct. The real work is rebuilding a kid's belief that they can think, learn, and walk into a classroom without dread.
Your student is already using AI for homework. Probably more than you know. The question is whether they are using it to think harder or letting it think for them. There is a massive difference, and the kids on the wrong side of it are losing the ability to do the kind of cognitive work college and adult life will demand of them.
We do not ban AI. We teach kids to wield it. Critical thinking, prompt engineering, academic integrity, and knowing the line between help and outsourcing. Kids who learn this become unstoppable. Kids who do not lose their thinking muscle one assignment at a time.
How to turn AI into a tutor, a quiz partner, and a feedback engine without letting it write the work.
Students learn to question AI output, spot hallucinations, and use sources, not chatbots, as their final word.
Asking the right question is the new fundamental literacy. We teach it the same way we teach reading.
Where the line is, why it matters, and how to stay on the right side of it without becoming the kid who never uses any of these tools.
When you book a session with KJR Academy, your student sits down with Kevin or Henry. Period. No revolving door of part-timers. No script readers.
Kevin has spent two decades inside the heads of students at every level. He is the author of Movers, Dreamers, and Risk-Takers, Schindler's Gift, Cyber Junkie, and three other books on learning, attention, and student development. His work has been featured on ABC's 20/20 and BBC Radio. He works with the kid who has been told to "try harder," the high-achiever aiming for the most selective universities, the gifted student who got bored, and the one who froze on tests and stopped believing in themselves. His students go on to Yale, Michigan Ross, UPenn, MSU, CU Boulder, and dozens of other programs.
Henry competed on Cambodia's International Math Olympiad team for two years and then coached the national team. His undergraduate degree is in Data Science with a concentration in machine learning, which makes him uniquely qualified to teach the next generation how to use AI without losing the ability to think. Students who walk in convinced they "hate math" routinely walk out saying they finally understand it. Henry teaches in English, Khmer, and Mandarin, and he is one of the most patient and compassionate teachers your kid will ever sit down with.
Real Google reviews from students and parents who have worked with Kevin and Henry.
Kevin and Henry are academic masters. They can help you with writing, Math (Calculus I, II, and III and anything below), becoming a great test taker, and succeeding on AP Exams. I call them the academic dynamic duo. More than anything, working with them taught me how my brain works and the best ways to study and learn. I am, by the way, on my way to becoming a nurse anesthetist, and I have to give Kevin and Henry credit for helping me get where I am right now.
Kevin and Henry are a one-stop shop for academic success. Kevin helped me become a much better writer, guided me through college consulting, applications, and essays, and he played a huge role in getting me into the University of Michigan. Henry is a math genius, literally, but is also a genius at teaching. If you work with these guys, you will go far.
I am studying engineering as an undergrad, and I have used the services of Henry and Kevin many times. Kevin has helped me with academic strategies, helping me understand my learning style, and even helping me through many of life's difficult situations. Henry basically taught me Calculus 3, Thermodynamics, Statistics, and got me through two college Physics classes. These guys are an incredible team. By the way, between them, they are fluent in ten languages.
Kevin and Math expert Henry offer an incredible quality of tutoring for high school students. Kevin and his staff tutor several foreign languages, Literature, Math, Sciences (including Honors and AP), History, and the Arts. Students from Bloomfield Hills, International Academy, West Bloomfield, and others all come for Kevin's phenomenal tutoring.
Some kids come confident and stuck on one subject. Some come frustrated. Some come curious and ready for more. The work is the same: figure out what is in the way and clear it.
Every session is taught by Kevin or Henry. No part-timers. No "your tutor is on vacation, here is a sub." If you do not want a college sophomore reading off a script, this is the place.
Kevin has spent his career studying how kids think. That changes everything about what happens in a session. Diagnosis first, then a plan built around your student, not a worksheet pack.
Most tutors can do the algebra. Henry can do anything in K-12 math, including the kind of mathematical reasoning that gets students into top engineering and STEM programs.
This is the missing piece in 2026. We teach kids how to use AI to amplify their thinking instead of replace it. The kids who learn this now will run circles around the kids who do not.
The high-achiever aiming for top schools. The gifted kid who got bored. The student with ADHD, dyslexia, anxiety, or executive function challenges. The one who freezes on tests. We work with the brain in front of us, not a category.
No long forms. No sales pressure. One short call to figure out whether we are the right fit.
30 minutes by phone or Zoom. We listen, you talk, we ask the right questions about your kid.
If we are a fit, we run a real diagnostic so the plan we build matches the brain in front of us, not a template.
Sessions in-person in Michigan or virtual anywhere. Most parents see meaningful change in the first few weeks.
Because we do not start with the subject. We start with how your kid actually learns, where school broke down for them, and what is getting in the way. Once that is clear, the subject work goes much faster. Most families who come to us after another tutor say they wish they had started here.
K through 12, every core subject. Math from arithmetic through calculus and Olympiad-level reasoning. Reading, writing, science, history, languages. We also do study skills, executive function, and AI literacy as standalone work.
This is our specialty, not an accommodation. Kevin has written extensively on ADHD and learning differences. We do not just adjust for these kids. We build the work around how their brains actually function.
Both. We are based in Michigan for in-person work, and we coach students virtually across the country and internationally. Most families do a mix.
Pricing depends on the package, the cadence, and what your student needs. We will walk through it on the strategy call so we can match a plan to a real situation, not a price tag to a template.
Most parents notice a shift in the first two to three weeks: their kid sits down to work without a fight, talks about school differently, or asks a question they never used to ask. Grades follow. Confidence usually moves first.
No. AI literacy is woven into every session. We teach your student how to use AI inside their actual schoolwork, the right way, in real time. It becomes a tool they own instead of a shortcut that owns them.
Book a free 30-minute strategy call. We will talk about your student, what is actually going on, and whether we are the right fit. No pressure. No sales pitch. Just an honest conversation about what it will take.
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