Meet the NHEG Teachers and Tutors

Closed, no longer taking new students. Due to teacher/tutor shortage and lack of funding.

Say hello to our NHEG Teachers and tutors, volunteer educators in the state of Ohio whose mission is to help students become more effective learners.  NHEG offers training and support for its teachers/tutors. We have incredible teachers/tutors and are always looking for more. Our tutors make an incredible impact on students.  We normally see a two-year educational advancement in students in 9-12 months for those that stick with our program. The most we have seen is a 4-year advancement in a little over a year for a student being tutored in Math and a 3-year advancement in Science.

All New Heights Educational Group teachers/tutors complete backgrounds checks along with signing confidentiality contracts and tutor agreements. Some of our classes cost money, while others are free of charge. Our teachers/tutors have many resources at their disposal, including a master document for every subject and grade level that contains helpful websites and resources to use in the classroom. 

Heather's Bio

Heather Ruggiero dedicates her time towards making online courses and resources for students, teachers, and parents. She has a Master’s Degree in Education and a B.S. in Business Management.

Since 2004, Heather has tutored a multitude of students across various grade levels. She’s also developed curriculum, created courses, and taught in classrooms. For six years, Heather worked as a trainer for adults with disabilities. Currently, she tutors and manages her web-based business, “Better than Tutoring”.

Heather and her husband Frank currently reside in Oklahoma with their chihuahua, Jester. Her hobbies include cooking nutritious meals, reading, writing, swimming, and practicing yoga.

Heather

Heather Ruggiero
Sheila Wright

Sheila

Sheila's Bio

Sheila lives in Southern California and has been a community college writing professor for over 10 years. She earned her MFA in Creative Writing from Chapman University and a BA in English from CSU Northridge. During her time as a graduate student, she tutored students in the university’s writing center and worked as an instructional aid for a parent participation preschool. Before her foray into education, she worked for 7 years as a managing editor for automotive magazines.

In addition to her volunteer work for NHEG as a tutor and proofreader, Sheila volunteers for 3 other organizations. She is part of a committee at her college working to support faculty rights at her campus, is the president of a small non-profit organization providing educational resources to a local elementary school and is a board member for a non-profit organization that advocates for victims of domestic violence.

Although she is a busy single mother trying to enjoy every moment with her active 10-year old boy, she finds time for her Anglophilia, her favorite pastimes of reading and writing and indulging in her love for Star Wars. And, whenever possible, Sheila and her son squeeze in travel to their favorite spots in the Eastern Sierra Nevada mountains, camping with extended family, and trips to new places, having recently taken their first journey out of the country. They are currently working on a novel about their travels.

Chad's Bio

Chad has been an animator since 1992, working on projects from The Simpson’s to most recently, The Smurfs. Beginning his career as an old fashioned hand-drawing animator (flipping pages), he has been working in the feature animation world for about 24 years, having made the switch to digital/computer animation about 13 years ago. Some of the movies he has worked on are Tarzan, The Emperor’s New Groove, Stuart Little 2, Surf’s Up, The Polar Express and The Smurfs.

He has been very much a part of our journey in homeschooling our children and has enjoyed that process of teaching. In 2007, he began teaching at an online animation school for career-minded adults and has enjoyed that experience so much that he began to envision The Animation Course for school age students.

Chad Stewart

Leah's Bio

Leah Sedy, the oldest in a homeschooling family of 8, grew up in the Pacific Northwest. She enjoyed helping her younger siblings with their work as well as studying foreign languages. Leah holds a bachelor’s degree in Japanese from Linfield College of Oregon, with a minor in Communications. Since graduating, she has lived and worked in Japan for the past 5 years. Teaching English to all ages, tutoring beginners in Japanese and exploring her second home in Kyoto are a few of the many things that Leah enjoys!

Leah Sedy
Allene Yue

Allene's Bio

Allene is a sophomore at Valley Christian High School. Her main interests are business and marketing along with tutoring and teaching! She enjoys playing piano and tennis.
Sampan Chaudhuri

Sampan Chaudhuri's Bio

Sampan is a junior at Salem High School, located in Canton, Michigan. He is planning to take AP Calculus BC and AP Chemistry in his junior year. Some of his hobbies include playing tennis and reading. He loves helping people in any way possible and is excited about tutoring students who may need some extra help with math. His career goal is to earn a degree in computer science at the University of Michigan.

Linghua Ding's Bio

Linghua moved to the U.S. in January 2020. She was an associate professor in Guangzhou, China and engaged in communication education for 15 years. As an undergraduate, Linghua studied Chinese Literature and Education at Jiangxi Normal University in China. This course of study was aimed at training Chinese language teachers. After graduating, she worked in the media for eight years as a reporter and editor. She won more than 20 national, provincial and municipal awards for news works and radio programs. After giving birth to her child, she studied at Jinan University and got a M.A. in Communications in 2005. She became a visiting scholar in The School of Media and Journalism, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2017

Linghua Ding
Meghna Kilaparthi

Meghna Kilaparthi's Bio

Meghna Kilaparthi is a junior at the University of Cincinnati majoring in Biochemistry with a certificate in Minority Health. She is on a pre-med track and is a part of numerous organizations in and out of school such as research and volunteering at Cincinnati Children’s Medical Center. Additionally, she has over 6 years of experience tutoring and is currently a Lead Tutor for Bearcat Buddies at UC in which she tutors underprivileged kids in the Clifton area.

Joyce Lin Bio

I’m a junior at Yorba Linda High School. I was born in Taiwan and moved to the U.S. when I was 12. I enjoy playing tennis, listening to music, and interacting with children. I’m excited for tutoring with New Heights Educational Group as I look forward to promoting the Chinese language and culture for many others.

Nina Le

Nina Le's Bio

Nina Le, a Junior at Porter Ridge High School, strives to become an artist and sew it into her future career. Her passions consist of any form of art, the environment/climate, and helping others. She pursues this by being a tutor, graphic designer, and environmental activist.”

Satya Vedula

Satya Vedula's Bio

My name is Satya Vedula and I’m a senior at UNHP. I’ve been playing the violin since I was about seven years old and have learned to love it with an immense passion. I’m ecstatic to have the opportunity to launch my own course with NHEG this year, Violin Vision, regarding the beauty of this instrument. Don’t forget that I’m still a student, too, so I will make sure to include all of the easy-to-remember tips and tricks in my course to make your learning journey as smooth and fun as possible!

Carmen Tachie-Menson

Carmen Tachie-Menson's Bio

Carmen is a recent graduate from Calvin University, Michigan with a double major in Economics and French. While studying at Calvin, she tutored multiple French courses, which is one of the reasons she decided to pursue a tutoring volunteership. She currently lives in Virginia, and loves drawing and painting in her free time

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