Top Dog Tutoring is located on Hillside Avenue near West Street in Needham Heights. They provide individualized and group instruction in three areas: standardized test preparation, general academic coursework and admissions applications. The president, Walter Warneck, has a M.Ed. from Harvard and several Massachusetts State Teaching certifications.
The Commonwealth Learning Center is a non-profit educational organization that provides programs that include private tutoring, evaluations and teacher training courses. The center offers tutoring for all ages, from kindergartners to adults in a variety of areas including writing, reading, test prep, study skills and math. The center's teachers also have experience assisting students with ADHD, dyslexia, high functioning autism, non-verbal learning disabilities and executive functioning difficulties. Additional student services include educational, psychological, speech and language evaluations. Teacher training programs include Lindamood Phoneme Sequencing Program, reading games, study skills, Nancibell Visualizing and Verbalizing Program for Reading Comprehension, math games and more. The organization operates an additional center in Danvers.
