Hi! As a teacher (and artist), my role is to be constructive, honest, and helpful on our journey together. I want you to connect with your own instrument in a way that is practical, truthful, and impactful. I'm a multiple-award winning professional actor based in Los Angeles, working in TV, film, and theatre, with additional produced experience as a playwright, screenwriter, and director for the stage and screen, and I carry my entire artistic life into my conversations with my students, young and old.

I enjoy taking my students from the known, their own language, to the unknown, the target language, Spanish. I am also a Real Estate Broker, and enjoy taking a renter or first time buyer giving him/her the key to enter his own home.

I am an independent tutor providing services to students of all ages. I am committed to ensuring that each student receives the individualised attention they need to achieve their academic goals. My approach is based on the belief that each student is unique and that the best way to help them succeed is to tailor the tutoring experience to their individual needs.

My name is Patricia Hickok and I am the director of our new school location in Long Beach. I am a graduate of Cal State University Long Beach and have a bachelors degree in Liberal Studies/Psychology. I was a preschool teacher and taught ESL (English as a Second Language) at Purche Elementary in Gardena. I am fluent in Spanish. My mother was born and raised in Peru where she was a teacher and studied English. She came to the United States and taught Spanish. When she married my father, they sent for my grandmother. She cared for my brother and I since birth which is very common in the Latin culture. Our Abuelita did not speak English so Spani...