Maine Prep at a
glance:
- Prepares high school students
for the SAT, SAT subject tests, ACT, and some AP
tests
- Provides private
coaching and group classes
- Provides SAT
and ACT preparation instruction in
high schools
- Provides its own TEN FOR TEN®
SAT and ACT prep
user-friendly curriculum
- Trains high school teachers
to help their students prepare for the SAT and ACT
- Provides curricular materials for high
school teachers to use in SAT and ACT prep instruction
- Prepares college students for
the LSAT, GMAT, and GRE
- Preps junior high
school students for the SSAT
Maine Prep students Caroline
A. and Rhegan F. enjoy a light moment during SAT prep
class.
Our Faculty
(and where each is based)
First, this:
We are very proud of our
teachers; they each have met or exceeded the 95th
percentile in all three SAT areas, Reading, Math, and
Writing. Since the four-and-one-half hours a
student spends sitting for the SAT is a single
experience, we require that our teachers be able and
eager to teach all areas of the SAT, since by doing so
can they offer their students a "full-test" perspective.
Keith Hart
(Brunswick/Lewiston) holds a B.A. in History from Acadia
University and an education degree from University of
Maine. Keith has taught and tutored International
Baccalaureate courses, along with AP, SAT, and SSAT,
during his time in Bermuda and the United States.
Keith specializes in SAT prep and the AP and SAT
subject tests in World History and American History.
Frank Hubbard,
Ph.D., (Bangor), a
graduate of Amherst College and University of
California, Berkeley, has taught test preparation for
ten years and has been an educator for thirty. A
former Fulbright scholar who studied in Finland, Frank
is currently Dean of Science and Humanities at Husson
College in Bangor. He specializes in SAT and ACT
prep, along with the SAT Literature subject test.
Jessica Kaplan
(Falmouth),
a graduate of Bowdoin College and Stanford Law School,
designed and teaches a curricular SAT course for South
Portland High School. Jessica is New England Prep's
primary LSAT prep teacher, and teaches ACT prep, SAT
prep, and the SAT Literature subject test.
Sean Lent
(Portland), an accomplished jazz musician, has coached
debate at Thornton Academy and Brunswick High School for
over ten years. He is finishing up a degree at USM.
Sean teaches SAT and the SAT History subject tests.
Jack Mahoney
(Brunswick) taught all major tests
and trained teacher recruits in the New York City area
for Stanley H. Kaplan Educational (world's largest test
prep company). Jack founded New England Prep in
2002, writes the curriculum, and teaches SAT, ACT, LSAT, GRE, GMAT,
and SSAT prep, in addition to the SAT History subject
tests.
Dugan Slovenski
(Brunswick) is a Stanford University
graduate who holds a teaching certificate from Bates
College. Dugan specializes in SAT, ACT, and SSAT
prep, and the Math subject tests.
Susan Thombs
(Kennebunk) graduated Summa Cum Laude from Stonehill
College. She has taught English at Deering High
School for the past six years. Susan teaches SAT
prep and the SAT
Literature subject test.
Kathryn Toppan
(Portland) holds degrees
in Psychology and English and teaches AP English at
Deering High School. Kathryn teaches SAT prep, ACT prep,
and the SAT Literature subject test.
Karen Vellekamp (Bridgton)
received her Master of Science degree from University of
New Hampshire. She has taught math and SAT prep in
Maine and New Hampshire for over 20 years. She
specializes in SAT prep and the SAT Math subject tests.
Susan Wong
(Lewiston), a graduate of Bates College, holds a teacher
certification in mathematics. Susan taught at Holy
Cross School in Lewiston for ten years. She
specializes in SAT prep and the SAT Math subject tests.
Our
Facilities
New in 2008:
In our new 2900-square-foot center
three minutes from Route 295 in Brunswick, Maine Prep's
private and classroom students learn in one of our four
dedicated, roomy, quiet, well-lit private or group
classrooms
Our classes at Cape Elizabeth High School are held in a
full-sized classrooms on the high school building's
second and third floors.
Those in Lewiston are held in
a spacious seminar room in KeyBank Plaza.
Those
in Bangor are taught in the beautiful Libra seminar room
at O'Donnell Hall on the Husson College
campus.
Our classes in Kennebunkport are taught
in a seminar room at the Louis T. Graves Memorial
Library.
Kents Hill classes are
held in the Science Building.
Readfield classes are
held in full-sized classrooms at Maranacook
Community High School.
In
addition, our LSAT classes at Bowdoin College are taught
in roomy classrooms in Searles Hall.
Our
Curriculum
The Maine Prep TEN FOR
TEN® SAT series features over
80 ten-question exercises covering
all three SAT subject areas (Reading, Writing, and
Math). Students report that their TEN FOR TEN®
homework is comprehensive but manageable (some
actually enjoy it!).
New in 2008: The Maine Prep TEN FOR
TEN®
ACT series features over 40 ten-question exercises in
all four ACT subject areas (English, Math, Reading, and
Science) along with a guide to the ACT essay. We
teach our ACT curriculum in
classes in Cape Elizabeth and Brunswick.
Teacher
Training: A Great Way to Help Students Raise Test Scores
 Maine Prep
offers teacher training to schools that would like to
help their students raise their SAT and ACT scores and be more
competitive when applying for college admissions and
merit-based financial aid.
For its
teacher-training program, Maine Prep
offers:
(1) The Maine Prep
TEN FOR TEN®
SAT and ACT
curricula, which consist of our proprietary
easy-to-learn methods and over 900 real SAT and ACT problems
organized into themed exercises; and
(2) Maine Prep master
coaches Dugan Slovenski, Jack Mahoney, Kathryn Toppan,
Susan Thombs, Susan Wong, and Jessica Kaplan.
>>At left:
Deering High
School
teachers work on a TEN
FOR TEN exercise that will help their
students better understand the SAT.
To
discuss
teacher-training, contact us at
798-5690 or email
training@maineprep.com.
“One of the
most valuable things I learned in our teacher training
sessions was a technique called Indexing. Maine Prep
designed this technique to help reduce confusion
students experience and time they waste trying to answer
questions about reading passages.”
- Cathy
Sears, Math and SAT Prep Teacher, Messalonskee High
School
Our recent
history
In 2008,
in addition to our classes in Bangor, Brunswick, Cape
Elizabeth, Kents Hill, Lewiston, and Readfield (Maranacook),
Susan Thombs taught our first set of SAT classes in
the Kennebunk area.
Dugan and Jack taught "before-school" SAT classes that Freeport High
School provided to 60 of its students at no charge
(and that helped raise scores as much as 300 points). We have
expanded our ACT TEN FOR TEN®
curriculum and have instituted a new scaled
pricing schedule that will make licensing our SAT
and ACT TEN FOR TEN®
curricular materials more affordable
for small Maine high schools. Lewiston High School has formally
incorporated the Maine Prep curriculum into its
curriculum. In October and November, we will train
teachers at Monmouth Academy. A first for Maine
Prep: Sean will teach a curricular Maine Prep SAT/ACT
course four days a week at Bridgton Academy from September to
December.
In 2007,
we worked with over 300 students privately and in
classes. Our spring SAT class in Cape Elizabeth
was expanded to two sections to accommodate more than 30
students; we have added two faculty members, and in August we
began teaching SAT classes in Lewiston/Auburn and Bangor. Also in
August, we trained teachers at Cape Elizabeth
High School to use our
TEN FOR TEN®
targeted SAT prep curriculum. Cape
has begun licensing the
TEN FOR TEN®
curriculum to help all its students improve their
SAT scores. Recently, we began training
six teachers at
Lewiston High School.
Those teachers will use the Maine Prep curriculum to
help their students prepare for the May 2007 SAT.
In 2006,
we trained teachers in
SAT prep at
Skowhegan Area High School and Messalonskee High School.
We provided SAT prep materials orientation to teachers at Mount
Ararat High School in Topsham and Deering High School in
Portland. We began licensing our proprietary Maine
Prep TEN FOR TEN®
targeted SAT prep curriculum, which now in 2007 includes
73 SAT prep exercises including over 700 SAT problems.
We added two new teachers to our faculty, and during the year we worked
privately and in small classes with 240 students. In
addition, we expanded our Harpswell Road offices by leasing a dedicated
classroom where up to 12 students can learn in comfort.
In 2005,
we began our SAT prep for
high school teachers,
training faculty at Bridgton Academy in the Maine Prep
SAT methods. During the year we added two
teachers to our faculty and worked with 195 students in
classes and private tutoring sessions. We continued
developing our TEN FOR TEN®
targeted SAT prep
curriculum, which now contained over 450 problems in
over 50 exercises. In September of that year, we
began teaching our LSAT course at Bowdoin.
In 2004,
Maine Prep opened an
office at 103 Harpswell Road in Brunswick. The
company had five students. By the end of the year,
we had added a second teacher (Jessica Kaplan, who also
heads the curricular SAT program at South Portland HS) and had prepared 120
students for the SAT and ACT. To help students be
ready for the New SAT (March
2005), we designed and introduced a comprehensive SAT essay
analysis system, which provides each SAT essay writer with
specific as well as general feedback from our essay professionals.
In addition, we began studying and preparing to teach
the SAT Writing (grammar and usage) section. The
South Portland HS program was a success, and continues
to be to this day. A large part of SPHS's SAT
program revolves around Maine Prep's TEN FOR TEN®
targeted SAT prep curriculum.
In 2002-3,
Jack Mahoney devised and wrote the first edition of the
Maine Prep TEN FOR TEN®
targeted SAT prep
curriculum. Jack consulted with South Portland
High School, which was instituting Maine's first
curricular SAT course.
Contact us
22 Parker's Way, 2nd
floor, Brunswick, ME
04011 (just off Church Road; across from Bath Iron Works).
Driving Directions
Phone: (207) 798-5690; email
office@maineprep.com
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