You Are Different. That’s why we are too —
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Effective teaching begins with connection and succeeds through efficiency. We are the first-of-its-kind system for organized student-to-student tutoring.
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We focus on the “why” behind learning, enabling personalized teaching through clear, dynamic and professionally crafted tools.
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Teaching and learning form a bridge, not a wall. We are geared towards empathetic pedagogy.
To Sergio,
This is Sergio: a special child, best described as an avid learner with a big heart. As a child, Sergio would take me to the bookstore, where we’d spend hours perusing hardcovers over coffee and a decadent slice of chocolate cake. It was through these outings that I was exposed to the value of language, at a time when I didn’t understand
This is Sergio: a special child, best described as an avid learner with a big heart. As a child, Sergio would take me to the bookstore, where we’d spend hours perusing hardcovers over coffee and a decadent slice of chocolate cake. It was through these outings that I was exposed to the value of language, at a time when I didn’t understand the one I was reading in or, the one I am writing in now.
As we grow older, our desires change. It’s no longer Captain Hook’s sword we wish for, it’s something we think will make us a little more whole: a gold-rimmed award, a degree our mothers told us to pursue or a trip down to the Titanic (that did end up having the opposite effect). We call what we reach for our identities. Once we accomplish, we create new, hazy finish lines and with them, a renewed sense of emptiness.
Sergio has taught me many lessons throughout his lifetime. But one has stood out: Learning is measured as a function of how much more we can see, rather than how much more we should be.
Every Sunday, when we’d go to the bookstore, Sergio would pick 8 books, read a few pages of each and buy 20.
He taught me that learning was a constant, unending journey to see the world a little better. One measured by everything—every book, every sentence, every page read—not by how much was missing. In a world full of intertwined roads with hazy finish lines, a journey paved by the certainty of the infinite, provided strength and reassurance.
As for the 20 books, this clearly meant Sergio could see further ahead, down the long road of discovery.
At Casa Inglar, we recognize that we live in a world helmed by instant gratification. We live by the constant of learning as our only absolute, teaching by tailoring our methodologies, so that our mentees can, too, embrace exploration as a lifetime process.
For teaching me to look at a book and never count the pages I had left to finish, I would like to dedicate this organization to my uncle, Sergio.
Without him, Casa Inglar wouldn’t be here: today, tomorrow, or further down the road paved by his many, undiscovered books.