Learning Plus Tutoring

Learning Plus Tutoring offers one-on-one tutoring in reading, math, writing, science, and test preparation, including high school placement testing. The program also offers a beginning phonics reading program, reading comprehension, grammar, study skills, and enrichment programs. Students can take part in an academic summer camp, a Writing Excellence Workshop, a Back-to-School Workshop, and a Back-to-School Bootcamp.

• Ages: 5–18 years old

Learning Plus Tutoring was begun in 1982 by founder Sue Walker. The Owner and Director, Rachel Renna, is described as a passionate educator and highly-trained professional with more than 20 years of experience in the field, and the tutors are described as highly trained educators and communicators. The leadership team is listed as Owner/Director and Executive Director: Rachel Renna, and Founder of Learning Plus Tutoring: Sue Walker. The program states that education must prepare a child to be successful in life.

The program offers one-on-one instruction with multi-sensory tutoring programs tailored to each child’s needs and offers a thorough evaluation to determine a child’s unique, individual needs. It provides comprehensive programs in all subjects listed, with programs tailored to individual needs and carried out by highly successful, well-trained tutors. Learning Plus Tutoring uses what it describes as an “amazing study technology” used all over the world in schools and businesses, and it states that it can detect and handle troubled areas easily and get results each time. The program states that it focuses on developing a child's skills, self-esteem, confidence, and positive attitudes about learning and life, and uses the motto, “if we're not having fun, they're not having fun.”

The academic summer camp is described by the program as fun, hugely successful, and award-winning, and the organization offers specialized workshops throughout the year such as the Writing Excellence Workshop and Back-to-School Bootcamp. Learning Plus Tutoring reports that it has successfully tutored thousands of children in the Bay Area. Bay Area Parent Magazine has been awarding Learning Plus Tutoring for its tutoring programs since 2007, and it has won these awards 7 times since 2007, including being named a Family Favorite and/or Editor's Choice every year since 2012.

One testimonial states that years of experience have shown that one-on-one tutoring lets the tutor target exactly what a student does not understand and correct it, and also spot the exact moment of understanding and reinforce it, which the testimonial says they have not seen in a group environment. The same testimonial reports that as a subject is cleared up and a student begins to understand, self-confidence comes up, frustration drops away, and attitude toward the subject and school improves dramatically. Another testimonial states that it does not matter what the subject is, and that once a student starts to succeed, life starts to look a lot brighter. A third testimonial says that more and more students simply do not know how to study and are just memorizing for a test without really understanding the information or its use, and that the study skills techniques at Learning Plus Tutoring address this by showing students how and what to study and how to apply what they have learned.

Last updated June 19, 2026.