Contact Information
| New Students: | (888) EDUCATE |
| Current Families: | (305) 273-9366 |
| Fax: | (305) 596-0763 |
| Monday: | 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM |
| Tuesday: | 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM |
| Wednesday: | 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM |
| Thursday: | 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM |
| Friday: | 9:00 AM - 8:30 PM |
| Saturday: | 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM |
| Sunday: | 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM |
Meet the Tutors
The tutors of Kendall Sylvan Learning Center are all Sylvan trained and certified so that they can best address your child’s academic needs. Our tutors are dedicated to working closely with you and your child in order to help your child reach his or her goals. We start by pinpointing your child’s strengths and areas for improvement through the Sylvan Skills Assessment®. From there, our Kendall staff develops a personalized learning plan for your child and offers unique insights about what methods will work best with your child. Ultimately, our tutors will build a relationship with your child and provide a fun, engaging, and rewarding learning environment. The Kendall Sylvan Learning Center staff consists of highly experienced and established educational professionals who take great pride in their work with students who want to catch up, keep up, or get ahead.
David Ciriaco
Center Director
David Ciriaco comes to Sylvan after years of working in the mortgage and finance industry. His work with parents to enroll students, finding ways to help them in all aspects of the process: from developing a schedule, meeting academic goals, and financing the programs, has been met with great success at the West Kendall Center.
Cristy Moran
Director of Education
Cristy Moran comes to Sylvan having taught at various learning centers since graduating from Florida International University in 2004. Currently, she is pursuing graduate studies in Library and Information Science at the University of South Florida. Aside from her professional work in education, Cristy is also a published poet and short story writer.
Adda Bogaards
Teacher
Adda has been in education for 12 years and has a Masters degree from the University of Miami in Learning Disabilities and Early Childhood SPED. Adda has endorsements in ESOL, ASD, and Mentally Handicapped K-12.
As her primary job, Adda works for the District in the office of SPED for the division of services for students with ASD. She is an Autism Support Teacher offering services to various schools all over the county, including training for teachers, administration, and staff.
Her greatest love, however, is being a mom and supporting her children in achieving their goals.
Gladys Jannyra Downs
Teacher
Jannyra has been a Sylvan teacher for all subjects and all grade-levels for over five years and has worked in several Sylvan Learning Centers in South Florida as well as for a franchise center in Georgia.
As her primary job, Jannyra is a fourth grade teacher, teaching all subjects, for an area school in Miami. She has been teaching for six years. Jannyra graduated from Florida International University with a degree in Elementary Education.
Jannyra is also an avid marathoner and enjoys running in local Miami marathons.
Roy Hay-Branford
Teacher
Roy teaches all grade levels and disciplines of math. For the last seven years, Roy has been teaching high school math and physics in New York and South Florida. Currently, he teaches Algebra 2 in one of our local public schools. Roy graduated from New York University and New York Institute of Technology with multiple certifications and a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
Besides Sylvan in Kendall's in-house mathematician over the past five years, Roy is also a talented artist of drawings, sketches, and paintings.
Janet Huntley
Teacher
Janet has been with Sylvan for four years. She is a retired teacher with 45 years experience teaching elementary grades 1-8 in Ohio and in the Miami area.
Janet likes to exercise and plays a lot of word games and follows sports on her free time. She also does a lot of reading.
Carren Bradleigh
Teacher
Carren Bradleigh has been teaching in Dade County, FL since 1976. She has worked in both the public and private sector. She received her BA in 1975 from FAU and her MS in 1984 from St. Thomas University in Special Education. She also has several certifications including Specific Learning Disabilities, Varying Exceptionalities, Mentally Handicapped, Gifted Endorsement, and ESOL Endorsement.
Carren currently works as the Title I Specialist at St. Brendan Elementary, where she instructs students in reading, math, and study skills. She works closely with school administrators, classroom teachers, and parents to determine and meet the individual needs of students requiring supplemental education. Carren has been working for Sylvan since Aug. 2000.
Carren is married and has two grown children; her daughter, Jennifer, is a middle school language arts teacher, and son, Russell, is an aerospace engineer. Carren is the proud grandma of preschooler, Chase .
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