This week, our very own Rohen Shah – a former Detroit teacher and 2-time University of Michigan alumni – won 2018’s National Tutor of the Year Award! The award is given annually by the National Tutoring Association. Up to 5 awards are given per year – one in each “category” of tutoring. This year, only one (Private Practice) was given, and it was to Rohen!

I’m not surprised. None of us are. The only surprising thing is that he didn’t get the award sooner, as the Executive Director of the NTA pointed out in her speech as she introduced Rohen. Here’s the clip, including hi-lights of his acceptance speech:

Rohen began tutoring full time when he was was 16 (you read that right), and tutored 80+ hours a week during college in Ann Arbor.

There was so much demand for his tutoring back in 2008, that he was promoted to “Head of Math” at Far From Standard Tutoring in East Lansing at the age of 18. Not only that – he was asked to write a book, which he did, called Acing Calculus.

In 2010, I took his job as Head of Math – because he was promoted to CEO (just before he was legally old enough to drink). He was younger than all of us – but you could never tell by talking to him.

By the time he started his own tutoring company in 2014, DiagKNOWstics Learning, the rest was history. His online videos and adaptive learning platform has helped tens of thousands of students across the world, and his educational rap music videos (of which I have the honor of doing the music production) have been viewed by millions of students.

If that’s not changing the world, I don’t know what is.

-Michael Dante
Director of Music Production, SKULE.org
michael@skule.org